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Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by pavel_lishin »

rm999 wrote: post #18
xbryanx wrote: post #9

Is anyone else worried about their listening data? I've got music play tracking in there back to 2006. Does anyone else do what they do with tracking, and does tracking alone give last.fm a viable business model?

I've been worried about the same thing. A few months ago I scraped all my scrobble data from last.fm with a python script I found online: http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/ You can even move all your data to libre.fm. I didn't do this because a few of my music programs (ahem spotify) only support last.fm.

You should see this comment about changing your hosts file: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917367

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by dewey »

I'm more interested in the stats/scrobble part than the radio but it's too bad they are not adding new features (More stats/graphs/...). It kind of feels like a dead project.

If there would be a site tracking your listening stats and giving decent recommendations based on your previous listening habits (Maybe even add last.fm import) i'd consider paying for it. This could work like trakt.tv where everyone is able to use the site but there are still some bonus features for paying members.

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by tholmes »

shared4you wrote: post #35
lucian1900 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true. You can choose to make an account or use your Facebook one.

Only FB is what I'm seeing: http://s11.postimage.org/dhgy3pnvn/deezer.png Can't create an account with my own mail id.

It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer account (there will be probably be a signup link nearby) or close the facebook box in front and click the signup link in the top right.

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by polynomial »

hammock wrote: post #37
unemployed wrote: post #32

The only reason I use last.fm is the scrobbling, I'd love it if they'd focus on music analytics more than radio. The moody pdf report in their playground is amazing.

http://playground.last.fm/ Same. I switched to spotify (and spotify radio, which is free) a while ago. But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back! Not to mention you can do a lot with the data.

> But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back!

Unclear what you mean. They both scrobble, do you aggregate them together someplace?

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by quarterto »

ninetax wrote: post #30
lucisferre wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last.fm was great before CBS, I used to use it all the time. It had one of the better algorithms out there for suggesting music and it introduced me to a lot of great bands after I'd been out of listening to music for a while. Then, for whatever reasons I just stopped using it.

I still think it's by far the best "here's a band, give me more like it" music suggester. Some how it understands the essence of the band I love and finds lots of bands that are just as good. And many of those bands are so obscure I don't know how I would have found them otherwise.

For half of the music I listen, this is true. The rest it just doesn't get.

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by unemployed »

polynomial wrote: post #44
hammock wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://playground.last.fm/ Same. I switched to spotify (and spotify radio, which is free) a while ago. But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back! Not to mention you can do a lot with the data.

> But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back! Unclear what you mean. They both scrobble, do you aggregate them together someplace?

I do the same. You can fill in your last.fm username in Spotify. Spotify also has an last.fm app. The music you listen to scrobbles to facebook as well as last.fm. Edit: Oh I think he meant, scrobble in the sense of keeping track of what you listen to. You don't have to keep using the last.fm desktop client.

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by buster »

tholmes wrote: post #43
shared4you wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only FB is what I'm seeing: http://s11.postimage.org/dhgy3pnvn/deezer.png Can't create an account with my own mail id.

It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer account (there will be probably be a signup link nearby) or close the facebook box in front and click the signup link in the top right.

Right, i just looked..

On the mainpage it says rightbelow the big fat FB login button "you don't have facebook? Sign up here" which opens a sign up form for deezer

Re: Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month

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Post by shared4you »

tholmes wrote: post #43
shared4you wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only FB is what I'm seeing: http://s11.postimage.org/dhgy3pnvn/deezer.png Can't create an account with my own mail id.

It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer account (there will be probably be a signup link nearby) or close the facebook box in front and click the signup link in the top right.

Do check the image I linked above. From my country, only FB signup is allowed. I clicked around all the buttons on their homepage, top, bottom, etc. Wikipedia seems to agree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deezer#Facebook

I guess it depends on a country-to-country basis.

EDIT: Deezer itself says only FB is the option: http://support.deezer.com/customer/portal/articles/138981-ho...

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