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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 t
by 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 agoOh 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 agoCould have been worse, they could have hired the guy who redid Flickr and Chowhound.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoDidn'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 agoIt'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.