Comments on: So long, Last.fm. Thanks for all the Gish

By: boolean

boolean — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:53:00 +0000

thanks! I’ll check it out.

By: C ,Douglas

C ,Douglas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0000

try Jango- very similar to last.fm and it is still free

By: boolean

boolean — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:14 +0000

I said I didn’t wanna talk about Pandora! I know you love your Pandora! I know some people *koff* who stream Pandora through a tunneled US connection in flagrant disregard for their Terms of Service. I will not name them. We can’t get it because of “licensing agreements” which is lawyer-bs for “it would cost us money and we haven’t worked out how to make it pay us” or something. I dunno.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:32:18 +0000

WTF with Canada? Why can’t you guys get the streamin’ up there? I was going to mention Pandora, I’m listening to it right now, but I suppose that’s out. The Last.fm icon is active on my little task bar right now too, streaming away. Luckily it’s still free for me or I’d dump it.

I do love Pandora though. On a road trip this summer I had my iPhone plugged into the car stereo while my navigator typed in random 80′s artists. It seems I know every word to almost every Bee Gee song, why is that? It made for some fun driving though. Too bad you can’t have it.

By: boolean

boolean — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:58:00 +0000

I dunno. The privacy aspect of it was certainly weird and uncomfortable for me. Sitting in the car, considering whether I should really listen to “Rio” by Duran Duran because it would show up on Last.fm was drag. I shouldn’t have to feel guilty about my guilty pleasures when I’m in the car! Sometimes, you just want to listen to stuff for yourself. Not that anyone gives a shit what I’m listening to in my car or anywhere else for that matter…

The part of the privacy thing I didn’t like was the talk a month back about the recording industry scouring Last.fm for early listeners of U2′s latest Rockstravaganza. AIUI, it’s still not illegal to download music in Canada available on the internet. The thought that I could end up in a database for possessing “contraband” in my music history was inherently distasteful.

Last.fm is just another tool of The Man. Thanks for the comment, Brad! Keep rockin’!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:43 +0000

I’m usually pretty good with giving up my privacy, but having my listening habits wide open was, as you describe, awkward. It made me self-conscious about what I was listening to which sort of sucks. But that’s probably something we’ll all have to get over.