Last.fm just got better
12Aug2005 Filed under: Product PlacementI started using Last.fm to track my music at the beginning of this year. I really liked the idea (you install a little plug-in, and it then spies on what mp3s you listen to, creating your own top 40 lists), but the site was clunky as fuck. There was last.fm and then there was audioscrobbler.com and the two were the same but different and it was just not especially good. But now they’ve combined into just Last.fm and it’s cool. If you want to, download the player, check my profile and then you can listen to a radio station of all my favorite music (just click “Start Radio” on my profile page — it’s in the top right). It’s pretty awesome. One minute it’s Ulrich Schnauss and Cujo and then all of a sudden it’s Mandy Moore and Kylie Minogue and then it’s Philip Glass and Aphex Twin and then it’s OutKast and George Michael. Welcome to my post-raver musical tastes.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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laura
August 12th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
I was actually really disappointed with the change. Last FM was the only radio I could get to work through all my firewalls at work and now I have nothing. The new site design is nicer, too, though a little Odeo-esque.
lu
August 12th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
You totally have to try Pandora.com.
It’s a custom-built radio station, but it gives you new music recommendations based on the musicological qualities of the songs you tell Pandora you like.
It’s very addictive.
It’s beta right now, but if you request an invite, they send it to you right away. Enjoy!
I blogged about it here: http://onesweetnothing.blogspo.....exist.html
-Lucia (friend of jane4short)