Tag Archives: last.fm
New Audioscrobbler Beta
Looks kinda cool, like Tweetie for Last.fm, and introduces keyboard shortcuts for loving and banning. I’m not sure the previous version had that. You don’t want this for scrobbling. There’s plenty of decent iTunes controllers that already do that well. … Continue reading
The Slow Death of MP3 Blogging
I used to follow a lot of those kinds of blogs that would post music recommendations to Megaupload or whatever site, but Spotify and Rdio put a stop to that. The main problem with social music is that it’s mostly … Continue reading
Last.fm Discover
Trying this out now. Last.fm Discover is a personalised music player that introduces you to bands from around the world by letting you browse through musical styles that you may already know or want to learn more about. You won’t … Continue reading
Cloudscrob
I’ve been looking for a good way to scrobble my iOS device music plays to my last.fm account. Both Rdio and Spotify have built-in scrobbling, but if you don’t use either of those services then you should check out Cloudscrob. … Continue reading
“Spotify Apps Are Inside Out”
Is there any music application that uses the “open web” for content resolution? When it comes to commercial applications it’s like they think it’s a good idea but say “uh…you go first.”
Facebook and Last.fm
Garrett Murray after Facebook introduced Places: Here’s the thing about Facebook that really gets under my skin: They are slowly incorporating the features from every other independent web application on the internet. This is not inherently a problem—companies get bigger … Continue reading
Tiger & Woods scrobbling
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The Last.fm Age/Gender Plot
Stick your last.fm username into this demo and see where you fall on a gender/age plot. This plot shows artists from the chosen top for each of the given users. The positions are determined by the average age and gender … Continue reading
Last.fm abandons on-demand playback
Last.fm is getting rid of their on-demand playback system. They know what they’re good at. …Last.fm users are among the first to adopt new music technologies. Accordingly, many of these new services are now adding — or have already added … Continue reading
Facebook apps are a cesspool of advertising
Earlier this week, Last.fm did some cleaning up around their server rooms. It looks like they’re preparing for their upcoming growth with Xbox 360 integration. They also added some more methods to their APIs. They also decided to close down … Continue reading