1 month ago
deusx : FriendFeed Blog: Last.fm Loved Songs - I guess this explains why I don't see Last.fm events on FriendFeed. Funny how it happened almost a year ago: "A number of FriendFeeders complained that Last.fm was showing up too often in their feeds because we tracked every song you listened t
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5 month ago
deusx : A Few Seconds and Some Funky Coding Later … at moodmat - "And then there’s this kind of mashup. Take a Last.fm user or artist name, plug it in and your personalized stream of YouTube videos appears."
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5 month ago
philgyford : Soundamus - new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to - Looks at your Last.fm playlist and tells you when new music by your listened-to artists is released. Could do with some kind of threshold, but still very useful.
Andy Baio : Soundamus - generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Capillaries can carry compressed context | confused of calcutta - We’re not dealing with firehoses any more. We’re dealing with capillaries, as I discussed in my post yesterday. And these capillaries carry and distribute information nutrients, and process and eject information waste and toxins. The real power of all
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9 month ago
jonhicks : Free the Music - Last.fm now offers freww streaming of full length tracks! I already use the site to preview and discover new artists, so this is great news.
Greg Storey : "...we've made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be." - Take that iTunes.
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9 month ago
deusx : Last.fm – the Blog · Blogging from the Ballpit - "It is surprisingly hard to type when nestled in a pool of balls"
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12 month ago
deusx : Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference - "From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond."
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm have a gorgeous new app for doing audio fingerprinting to sort out the metadata around music - The double-translation of similar track names to audio fingerprints is a bloody fascinating way to get good solid real-world identifiers around objects like songs. I'm installing it immediately.
Simon Willison : Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.
philgyford : Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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14 month ago
plasticbag : The Last.fm Normaliser tells you which bands and albums you've listened to for longest (based on the average song length) - If you like your Orbital, as I do, then suddenly the fact that their tunes are four times as long as music by the Pixies counts for something.
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17 month ago
gleuschk : LastGraph: Welcome - Dear internet: this is super-mega-awesome. Love, gleuschk.
Rod Begbie : LastGraph: Welcome - Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this! [via] #
Andy Baio : LastGraph - beautiful infoviz graphs of Last.fm listening habits; examples here [via]
philgyford : LastGraph: Home - Create completely stunning and fascinating colourful graphs of your Last.fm data. The best way I've ever seen of getting a good impression of what you've listened to. If only I had data for my whole life of listening. (via Plasticbag)
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Last.fm co-founder on their acquisition by CBS - the $280M price seems low and the idea of CBS eventually running Last.fm scares me
Rod Begbie : Last.fm -- the Blog: Last.fm Acquired By CBS - last.fm bought by TV & radio network, CBS. OK, the radio connection makes a little sense, but still strikes me that the other half of Viacom would have been a better match. #
deusx : Last.fm – the Blog - "Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia)."
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17 month ago
plasticbag : The rumour is that last.fm has been bought by CBS for $280 Million - I find myself surprisingly depressed by this revelation, although it does sort of rather explain some of the conversations I had with them a while back about what it's like inside large organisations and how acquirees fare...
jimray : CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million - Ok, you know things are crazy when a social music site with no business model goes for $280M, which is described as "a little on the low side." But good for last.fm, here's hoping CBS doesn't frak it all to hell.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm has a page listing their top downloads of free MP3s. There's a lot of crap, and a bunch of non-crap too... - Surprised to see that you can download The Carpenters for free. Very weird / interesting selection. I suspect there's some spamming going on right there...
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Very much on the rumour mill - but I'm sceptical about it's truth: Are last.fm about to be bought by Viacom for $450 million - I've said it for ages that someone should try and buy them. I heard rumours in the past that they'd turned down overtures from a few large companies. They're certainly a huge potential player over the next few decades...
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20 month ago
plasticbag : TechCrunch's social music overview is pretty light, but interesting nonetheless... - There's a few names here I haven't heard of. iLike is a nice little plugin I've been using for a while but which has very little traction in my communities. Last.fm remains my staple music community...
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24 month ago
kellan : HubLog: Last.fm events calendar - Obvious, but good to see they finally did it. Premium service only though. #
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : OpenPandora - Player for Pandora which supports the multimedia keys on keyboards, minimizes to your system tray, and uploads your track info to last.fm. [via] #
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google Music Trends - Google appear to be building their own scrobbler -- The new Google Talk client lets you opt to send your Winamp/iTunes/etc playback data up to Google. #
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Last.fm redesigns - the design is nice, but no more Audioscrobbler plugins and they're forcing bidirectional friend connections
philgyford : Last.fm Site Updates – Last.fm - A prayer is answered and a miracle happens: A decent way of finding out about gigs you might be interested in has appeared, and Last.fm gets even better. You need to log in to see it though.
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29 month ago
jimray : Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature - Pitchfork looks at automated music recommendation
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's long profile of current and future music recommenders - [via]
Rod Begbie : Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature - Article covering the myriad of music discovery and recommendation engines out there. "Echo Nest" sounds interesting (and they're local). #
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29 month ago
philgyford : AMK design | Last 10 tracks on your website - Simple but good PHP code for putting your Last.fm recent tracks on your site. Inspired me to rewrite all my stupidly over-engineered code for gyford.com along the same lines. (via Kottke)
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : hackdiary: Last.fm isn't just for humans - Matt Biddulph scripted an AudioScrobbler profile containing a live feed of the music played on the BBC 6Music radio station. [via] #
Andy Baio : Last.fm isn't just for humans - BBC radio station quietly tracking nearly every song played for the last year [via]
plasticbag : Last.fm isn't just for humans - Mr Biddulph talks about work he did when we were at the BBC, piping now-playing lists from 6music into last.fm to make a profile of their music listening preferences. Pretty cool, really. Very interesting.
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33 month ago
plasticbag : "Apple has been criticised over a new version of its iTunes program that can keep track of a user's listening habits." - So whatever the rights and wrongs of the whole situation, it's pretty clear that the PR effect has been far from positive. Apple, look to last.fm! There's a whole world of the future hidden in that little site...
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : Audioscrobbler web services - tons of fun potential uses for this data [via]
Rod Begbie : Audioscrobbler - The Music Technology Playground from Last.fm - The Last.fm chaps share their music tag data for non-commercial purposes. Can you say woo? [via] #
philgyford : Web Services - Audioscrobbler - It's been a while since I looked - I didn't realise there was so much juicy data easily accessible.
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