Tag: Last.fm
Slacker G2 – properly personal radio on the move
Okay, close your eyes and relax your mind. Think about nothing – just a grey backdrop. Now allow an MP3 player of your choice to float in. iPod, Zune, whatever. Doesn’t matter. Now, from the other direction, float in Last.fm, or Pandora, or any other personalised radio service. Allow yourself to get a little cross-eyed as the two objects merge in your head and you visualize a portable device that streams a mix of songs to you based on your listening habits – your likes and dislikes.
Last.fm gets a makeover – and a few new features
Last.fm claims to be ‘new and improved’, which effectively amounts to a new look and one or two new features…
Last.fm rolls out mobile application for iPhone and iPod touch
One our favourite legit online-music-stations-cum-social-networking-sites, Last.fm, now has its very own iPhone /iPod Touch application, available to download from the iTunes App store. Just hit up the store’s Music category to find it.
Last.fm offers Radiohead's In Rainbows album for free streaming
Ok, you could have bought it for next to nothing, but if you didn’t pick up Radiohead’s In Rainbows album, you can stream it for free at Last.fm…
New Last.fm beta – unlimited listening service
Last.fm is running a beta of a new subscription service it plans to launch that will offer unlimited access to its vast catalogue of music.
Currently the social music site allows users to listen to the same tracks three times before you can only to listen to them via the Last.fm radio and it looks like the new subscription service will remove this bar…
AOL Radio relaunches with Last.fm at the helm
AOL is the latest to bow down to the social music revolution that is Last.fm and the Disneyland of ISPs has asked the internet music streaming specialists to run AOL Radio in Europe…
Last.fm signs UK licensing deal with PPL – agrees royalties for UK web streaming
Social music network Last.fm has announced that it has signed a deal with PPL to provide performance royalty payments to artists streamed via its UK radio.
Last.fm launches free on-demand music platform in UK
Last.fm has today announced that it is the first website to offer free, global, on-demand access to the largest licensed catalogue of music from Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, Warner and EMI, plus CD Baby, IODA, the Orchard, Naxos and more than 150,000 independent labels and artists.
The service is ad supported, which means that they can implement the second part of their master plan: paying unsigned artists each time one of their tracks is played on the Last.fm service.
Ian Rankin to promote next Rebus novel on Last.fm
Physical books? Has the internetweb not killed them off yet? Kids nowadays don’t even know how to boot up a paperback, let alone refresh its firmware.
But that hasn’t stopped crime writer Ian Rankin from beavering away on the final novel in his Rebus series, and teaming up with Last.fm to promote it to the Web 2.0 generation.
Is iPhone's secret radio a Last.fm style streaming service?
Apparently there’s four unused or ‘hidden’ applications on the iPhone: a translator, a converter, a phone book and a radio. At least, that’s what hackers are surmising after poking around the device’s software.
