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Posts Tagged ‘last.fm’

Last.fm continues alienating music-lovers

In Web on 30 March 2009 tagged last.fm, Music, social, Web with no comments

The Future of Last.fm Radio APIs – Last.fm Web Services Discussions – Last.fm
Last.fm has never had a public radio API, although we’ve tolerated third-party clients using the undocumented calls that our client uses. This is finally about to change – we’re going to make a public, documented streaming API available to everyone who has an [...]

So long, Last.fm. Thanks for all the Gish

In Web on 26 March 2009 tagged last.fm, Music, social with 6 comments

The popular music site Last.fm was a fun experiment for me. They announced a couple of days ago that they were going to start charging a subscription fee for use of their streaming music. US, UK and German listeners will still get the full service for free.
I don’t envy them their position of having to [...]

Thursday: A musical odyssey

In Entertainment, Music on 6 December 2008 tagged Entertainment, last.fm, Music, playlist, recommendations, Web with 1 comment

I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder.
The value becomes apparent when Last.fm [...]