last.fm - free 128kbps streaming radio!

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!

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.

 

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 ]

Edited by MikeEnRegalia

Tony R wrote:

I see that you've used the "advanced mode" well ... I'll try tweaking my image later on.

I joined, but than I saw it stated I haven't made any friends, so I was quiet upset.

I had to cry for what appeared to be ages, and then I shut it all down, and now I'm a happy camper again.

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

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

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.

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.

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?