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    Posted: April 18 2006 at 10:14

I didn't even know that they offer tracks there now ... I haven't been using the player for quite a while. Personally I would not recommend buying tracks online at a price which is close to that of a real CD ... as you pointed out, you get much less for your money. It's not only the missing booklet - you also cannot sell the files later if you don't like the music anymore.

I recommend services like Napster instead, where you can listen to their whole catalogue for the price of one CD/month.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

There's a plugin that you can install in many media players (winamp, windows media player, ...) which transfers the playlist to last.fm ... when you see entire albums in people's playlists then it means that they have been listening to their own music. last.fm is randomized streaming ... in order to provide that service for free, they in fact must ensure that no complete albums are played, not even more than one song from the same album in a row is allowed.

I thought that they wouldn't be able to play whole albums without you having to pay for it somehow. That randomised radio feature of last.fm is great. I see that you can download tracks from there for 86 British pence (about 1.3 Euros). That's pretty expensive. It would work out at 13 Euros for a 10-track album and you end up with no CD, no case and no inlay book.

I think if you want to use some advanced features of last.fm you have to pay for them don't you? Do you only use the free features Mike?


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Well, I've just joined the PA group, and started to use the last.fm player. It was on my harddisk already, but I never got around to listening to it.

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There's a plugin that you can install in many media players (winamp, windows media player, ...) which transfers the playlist to last.fm ... when you see entire albums in people's playlists then it means that they have been listening to their own music. last.fm is randomized streaming ... in order to provide that service for free, they in fact must ensure that no complete albums are played, not even more than one song from the same album in a row is allowed.
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I notice from the signatures of a lot of people that you seem to be listening to whole albums. Do you have to pay for that? I started using it today and I am just using "Ozric Tentacles radio station", which plays music similar to Ozric Tentacles. I've also seen that you can use the tags and get a "progressive rock radio station" too for example.


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I joined now.  It's really nice. I haven't made any neighbors, but I bet some of you may be them, whether you want to or not.
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BTW: They have a new feature (at least they didn't have it in August): "recommendations radio". Quite nice!
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The radio player is just amazing. I have bought 3 cds yesterday but I choose the radio player just because I may discover a new band. Today I discovered a song from gordian knot which was amazing!!!! Best program ever
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Originally posted by NegativeTrend NegativeTrend wrote:

Nice little site for tracking what you listen to but I don't think I will download the radio player.

The radio player is what really makes their service interesting.
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Nice little site for tracking what you listen to but I don't think I will download the radio player.

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Thanks alot!
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

I see that you've used the "advanced mode" well ... I'll try tweaking my image later on.
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Points: 21554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:35

Go there and follow the instructions:

http://www.goodaim.net/audioscrobbler/

You'll get an URL, which you copy and paste in your signature like this: [ IMG ] URL [ /IMG ]



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i have downloaded it and it is recording my tracks I've listened to, but my question is- How do you get the recent tracks to be displayed in your sig.? Thats the main reason I downloaded it, yet I cant figure it out.
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Points: 21554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:29

I know what you mean, Ty1020. But their player is open source software, which means that you could download the source code and investigate it for spyware code ... ok, most people won't do that. But I don't see any problems with that, and I'm also a little paranoid when it comes to spyware.

Actually, the radio functionality is really AWESOME.

 
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As you can probably tell from my sig, I already use it . I haven't tried out the radio features yet, though. Don't you have to download a special player to do so? I'm kind of apprehensive to get it, since I'm a huge spyware-phobic.
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Points: 21554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:19

If you don't know it, check it out:

http://www.last.fm

It's the successor to Audioscrobbler, and there's a ProgArchives user group.

If you have any questions about what it is, what it does and what it doesn't do ... read their FAQ or ask me.

In a nutshell:

  • It collects statistics from your media player and makes clever recommendations
  • You can listen to a lot of music for free. Just download their radio player software and follow the instructions.
  • It compares your own statistics with other users, and you can use the radio player to listen to their favorite music.

Greatly recommended!
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