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Also the bulk of the users signed before that date. [0] Last.fm is one of my favorite sites. Sad that is dying :( 0. rough heuristic: https://www.google.com/tr

by jrowley 10y ago

Also the bulk of the users signed before that date. [0] Last.fm is one of my favorite sites. Sad that is dying :( 0. rough heuristic: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=last.fm https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=last.fm Edit: If anyone wants to add me on last.fm here is my profile! http://www.last.fm/user/joer14 http://www.last.fm/user/joer14

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jrowley 10y ago
You can get even better idea of their site growth (or lack thereof) from the above link (scroll to the bottom of the page) http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/lastfm http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/lastfm
rawrmaan 10y ago
Wow! They had some great growth going on and it seemed to hit a wall hard around 2008-2009. Any idea why?
- zippy 10y ago
  http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement "In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."
  - type0 10y ago
    And at the same time they weren't treating us as customers, more like second rate users.
- datamart 10y ago
  Maybe this is due to Spotify starting to gain traction around that time? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012-09-01&q=last.fm,spotify https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012...
- NeutronBoy 10y ago
  Soundcloud launched in 2008. Spotify launched in 2008. Only a year or so after Facebook opened signups to anyone IIRC. Not exactly sure what the impact on Last.fm would have been but it evidently wasn't good.
- anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Easy. CBS bought them late 2007. Dev and updates pretty much stopped. They limited tracks you could play directly. Then they killed radio. I'm really sad to see it die, it was better at introducing me to new artists than any other service before or since, and the radio was brilliant.
  - joecool1029 10y ago
    Oh you must have left awhile ago then. I agree they ruined the best music discovery service on the web, but even without it the site was dated but functional.. until last year. Last year CBS decided the whippersnappers needed a redesign and took out around 80% of the features and put the site into a perpetual beta state.
    - rhizome 10y ago
      Could have been worse, they could have hired the guy who redid Flickr and Chowhound.
    - anexprogrammer 10y ago
      Didn't really give up until they had the fabulous idea to replace direct streaming with playing poor match Youtube videos as radio. That killed radio finally and made a none functioning joke of the main reason I bought my network music player. Was mad about that as Last radio was my first choice for work listening. The site was dated as they were frozen in 2008 - After CBS bought them there was one update very soon after then the site didn't change at all until last year. Minor updates and bug fixes only. As for the update last year, pretty and vacant, doesn't bring back the things I loved about the site, but lets me see lots of pretty graphs of things I'm not interested in. I took a look at libre fm after that, but that's even more abandoned.
  - type0 10y ago
    It's tragic how corporate greed can kill such an awesome site. They wasn't even ashamed to ask for money in countries where they didn't had adverts while they were removing the features from its users.
sotojuan 10y ago
How is Last.fm one of your favorite sites after that horrible redesign that erased tons of user-generated content?
- anoonmoose 10y ago
  Because it still does exactly what I want it to do, and what I've wanted it to do since I signed up in 2004, which is keep logs of every song that I listen to. The user-generated content side of it was added after I signed up (I think?) so I don't see how I could really miss it. 230K songs since 2004. http://www.last.fm/user/ryxxui http://www.last.fm/user/ryxxui
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    I'm annoyed that I didn't keep using it consistently. I even had it tracking usage from an offline iRiver H340 MP3 player - at the end of the day, I'd upload a database from Rockbox. http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex
  - dublinben 10y ago
    You might be interested in https://libre.fm/ https://libre.fm/ if you aren't confident about the future of Last.fm. It can be used as a drop-in replacement to track your music plays.
  - GurnB 10y ago
    173K Songs since Nov 2004. http://www.last.fm/user/GurnB http://www.last.fm/user/GurnB But I took 4 or 5 years off.
- jrowley 10y ago
  I should said "it was" one of my favorite sites. The redesign is awful. They killed the neighbors feature which was really fun.

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jrowley 10y ago

You can get even better idea of their site growth (or lack thereof) from the above link (scroll to the bottom of the page) http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/lastfm http://www.leakedsource.com/blog/lastfm

rawrmaan 10y ago

Wow! They had some great growth going on and it seemed to hit a wall hard around 2008-2009. Any idea why?

zippy 10y ago
http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement "In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."
- type0 10y ago
  And at the same time they weren't treating us as customers, more like second rate users.
datamart 10y ago
Maybe this is due to Spotify starting to gain traction around that time? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012-09-01&q=last.fm,spotify https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012...
NeutronBoy 10y ago
Soundcloud launched in 2008. Spotify launched in 2008. Only a year or so after Facebook opened signups to anyone IIRC. Not exactly sure what the impact on Last.fm would have been but it evidently wasn't good.
anexprogrammer 10y ago
Easy. CBS bought them late 2007. Dev and updates pretty much stopped. They limited tracks you could play directly. Then they killed radio. I'm really sad to see it die, it was better at introducing me to new artists than any other service before or since, and the radio was brilliant.
- joecool1029 10y ago
  Oh you must have left awhile ago then. I agree they ruined the best music discovery service on the web, but even without it the site was dated but functional.. until last year. Last year CBS decided the whippersnappers needed a redesign and took out around 80% of the features and put the site into a perpetual beta state.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    Could have been worse, they could have hired the guy who redid Flickr and Chowhound.
  - anexprogrammer 10y ago
    Didn't really give up until they had the fabulous idea to replace direct streaming with playing poor match Youtube videos as radio. That killed radio finally and made a none functioning joke of the main reason I bought my network music player. Was mad about that as Last radio was my first choice for work listening. The site was dated as they were frozen in 2008 - After CBS bought them there was one update very soon after then the site didn't change at all until last year. Minor updates and bug fixes only. As for the update last year, pretty and vacant, doesn't bring back the things I loved about the site, but lets me see lots of pretty graphs of things I'm not interested in. I took a look at libre fm after that, but that's even more abandoned.
- type0 10y ago
  It's tragic how corporate greed can kill such an awesome site. They wasn't even ashamed to ask for money in countries where they didn't had adverts while they were removing the features from its users.

sotojuan 10y ago

How is Last.fm one of your favorite sites after that horrible redesign that erased tons of user-generated content?

anoonmoose 10y ago
Because it still does exactly what I want it to do, and what I've wanted it to do since I signed up in 2004, which is keep logs of every song that I listen to. The user-generated content side of it was added after I signed up (I think?) so I don't see how I could really miss it. 230K songs since 2004. http://www.last.fm/user/ryxxui http://www.last.fm/user/ryxxui
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  I'm annoyed that I didn't keep using it consistently. I even had it tracking usage from an offline iRiver H340 MP3 player - at the end of the day, I'd upload a database from Rockbox. http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex http://www.last.fm/user/voltagex
- dublinben 10y ago
  You might be interested in https://libre.fm/ https://libre.fm/ if you aren't confident about the future of Last.fm. It can be used as a drop-in replacement to track your music plays.
- GurnB 10y ago
  173K Songs since Nov 2004. http://www.last.fm/user/GurnB http://www.last.fm/user/GurnB But I took 4 or 5 years off.
jrowley 10y ago
I should said "it was" one of my favorite sites. The redesign is awful. They killed the neighbors feature which was really fun.