Are you on Last.fm?

Dec 08 2005 11:24 PM

What is it?

Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler system, a music engine based on a massive collection of Music Profiles. Each music profile belongs to one person, and describes their taste in music. Last.fm uses these music profiles to make personalized recommendations, match you up with people who like similar music, and generate custom radio stations for each person.

Basically, you create an account, download and install a plugin for your favorite music player, then Last.fm will keep track of the songs you play on your computer. But it’s really so much more than that…

The more you listen, the better the spiffy recommendations area becomes. It’ll help you find new artists and preview music using the Last.fm player, which also doubles as a radio station. The site even has the whole social thing going on so you can see if your friends are listening to crappy music.

Go check it out for yourself and add me as a friend if you want to see what awesome people listen to =)

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Last.fm is GREAT. There are also a lot of XML-based stats of your music which you can implement on your own site.

Yeah, I’m thinking about using one of the feeds in my Music box on the sidebar.

Yeah, been on it about 9 months now and still loving it. I found it through the forums on phpbuilder.com - one of the guys on there got a job as one of their web devs.

http://www.last.fm/user/week/

Added :-)

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