Anyone listen to last.fm

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www.Last.fm is a online 'radio' station, streaming songs derived from your tastes and recommending new songs in line with what you already like (it claims) .. pretty heavy electronic music focus now but (somehow?) they have lots of rock'n'roll classics too (from stones to beck to neil young to primal scream to joy division)

Anyone actually use it?

Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My mate Robbie does (or did). i tried it out once at his house, but it kept recommending Autechre, even if I said I only like Dannii Minogue records.

Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...
Revive!

They are still fiddling with their servers and their recommendation 'formula' ... it is definitely worth a try.

Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 20 May 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...
Just discovered this. It's kind of amazing. What will they think of next?

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Sign up to audioscrobbler/last.fm, join the ILX group and get listening to Radio ILX.

Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

So far I've had to ban tracks by NIN, Ryan Adams, the Monkees and Spiritualised. But I'm now getting to hear TV on the Radio, who I've been meaning to check out for a while. More people join!

Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

This is exciting!


How does it work?

adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't get that link to work! :( :(

adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 November 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...
this is one of the few websites i come across now that doesn't work well on safari. REFRESH REFRESH REFRESH.

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 17 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...
Call me slow and all that, but having had last.fm some months now Ive finally got round to the neighbour radio and damn, it is GREAT. It is really pulling up some amazingly well-picked and often obscure stuff to listen to. FM+ quality, skip the tracks you dont like, no DJ yammering on, click to look up the album reference - wish I'd had this as a teen.

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...
oh what are they up to now?

Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

i hope those stripes in the lower thrid of the screen are part of their new layout. i cant stop staring at them!

ferzaffe (flezaffe), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

staring at them fucks my vision. also diag stripes are so 2004.

Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

lol, more like 1929.

did anyone partake in the beta test?

ferzaffe (flezaffe), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the Beta - I found a few bugs with it, but overall, not bad.

Andie B (andie b), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'm being told to have a cup of tea because their servers are inadequate :(

W i l l (common_person), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

would be good if you could select a radio station based on more than one tag

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 16 October 2008 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

maybe try some other tags than hiphop, electronic, house, chart, Ewing, Blueski, ILoveMusic, DanniiMinogue, PopIdol, Techno, etc

the pinefox, Thursday, 16 October 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

B-, zingfox

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 16 October 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago)

would be good if you could select a radio station based on more than one tag

― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:23 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

You can. Just type more than one tag in the tagbox in the stand-alone app, ie. 'Contemporary classical'.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 16 October 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

balearic crunk
Sorry, we couldn’t find that tag. Try another?

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Thursday, 16 October 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago)

i just joined

http://www.last.fm/user/anitalianmale

Kevin Keller, Thursday, 16 October 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

been listening to Electro radio for most of this afternoon but no actual electro came up

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Well that's it folks...

The co-founders of Last.fm have quit the CBS-owned company.

CEO Felix Miller, COO Martin Stiksel and CIO Richard Jones confirmed they were leaving in a blog post yesterday. The trio will stay on as consultants at the firm until September.

CBS Interactive’s boss Quincy Smith said Miller, Stiksel and Jones would hang around to ensure a smooth handover of management at the top.

“We are actively looking to hire a new leadership team which will definitely consist of more than one person,” he said, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The trio founded Last.fm in 2002 in a living room in Whitechapel, east London. The outfit now claims 37.3m monthly unique visitors to its site.

“After two years running Last.fm within CBS we feel the time is right to begin the process of handing over the reins,” wrote the three men in a joint blog post on Wednesday afternoon.

Smith told the Financial Times that the departure of Last.fm's co-founders was “a bummer.”

Earlier this year Last.fm has hit out at an uncorroborated report that alleged the music streaming website passed user data over to the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA).

It responded angrily to a report posted by TechCrunch that cited an unsourced rumour, which claimed Last.fm handed over a “giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks" to the RIAA.

The move apparently followed U2's forthcoming album, No Line On The Horizon being leaked onto the interwebs ahead of its 3 March release.

In February Last.fm CIO Jones denied the unsubstantiated claims.

"I'm rather pissed off this article was published, except to say that this is utter nonsense and totally untrue,” he wrote at the time. “As far as I can tell, the author of this article got a 'tip' from one person and decided to make a story out of it.”

CBS also refuted the claims. However, some reports are now suggesting that the speculation could be one of the reasons behind the sudden departure of the three men from Last.fm.

CBS Interactive’s music group president, David Goodman, will immediately take control of the Hoxton-based company, which the US media giant bought for £140m ($280m) in 2007

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

Countdown to when Last.FM is rebranded as "CBS Records Online" and rebranded with obnoxious ads and crap in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

it was posted the other day on the rolling last fm thread

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

i applaud them (maybe they'll hear)

Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

The events RSS feed is doing a good job keeping me informed about the upcoming Michael Jackson shows at the O2.

ledge, Thursday, 30 July 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

hello i just joined and i'd be happy to have any sort of friend on this thing

http://www.last.fm/user/trykfeil

del griffith, Monday, 28 June 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago)

might get some more love on this thread:

Rolling last.fm thread 2010

anagram, Monday, 28 June 2010 08:03 (fourteen years ago)

</3

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

great resource

buzza, Sunday, 27 March 2011 03:46 (fourteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Anyone having issues scrobbling from Spotify? Nothing registered since yesterday morning.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:09 (four years ago)

Yeah same here

nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 12:28 (four years ago)

Disconnecting and reconnecting the app in last.fm settings fixed it.

Didn't know about this but useful if you want to just write-in your listens manually: https://openscrobbler.com/

nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 20:15 (four years ago)


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