last.fm - free 128kbps streaming radio!
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Topic: last.fm - free 128kbps streaming radio!
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Subject: last.fm - free 128kbps streaming radio!
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:19
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If you don't know it, check it out: http://www.last.fm - 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:
Greatly recommended! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:21
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.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:29
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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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Posted By: Evan1211
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:31
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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. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:35
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Go there and follow the instructions: http://www.goodaim.net/audioscrobbler/ - http://www.goodaim.net/audioscrobbler/ You'll get an URL, which you copy and paste in your signature like this: [ IMG ] URL [ /IMG ] ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:41
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:44
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I see that you've used the "advanced mode" well ... I'll try tweaking my image later on. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Tony R wrote:
Posted By: Evan1211
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 14:50
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 15:34
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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.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 15 2005 at 15:44
You always give up without a fight? ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: NegativeTrend
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 23:27
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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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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 02:27
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The radio player is what really makes their service interesting. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: December 02 2005 at 16:49
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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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 02 2005 at 17:13
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BTW: They have a new feature (at least they didn't have it in August): "recommendations radio". Quite nice! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 12:05
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.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 09:21
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 09:37
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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. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Man Made God
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 10:00
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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.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/manmadegod/?chartstyle=ScarlettJohansson1"> 
Focus on the music... Focus! |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 10:00
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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? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10">
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 18 2006 at 10:14
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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. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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