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You can't have a discovery app _that doesn't host the content_.

• quinnirill 2y ago
  Google and/or IMDb don’t count as discovery apps or not hosting the content?
• doubled112 2y ago
  Last.fm did it, or did they host content and I've never realized this in 20 years?
  • bondarchuk 2y ago
    Yeah last.fm was a streaming webradio type thing. You could also scrobble your own mp3s but (as I remember it) the whole point of that was so you could then listen to the stream tailored to your preferences. Just like Pandora which was also really great for a while.
    • diggan 2y ago
      > You could also scrobble your own mp3s but (as I remember it) the whole point of that was so you could then listen to the stream tailored That's not how I remember it at all. The biggest features (that at least made me and my friends use it) was that no matter what player you used, it probably had a "Scrobble to last.fm" features (which sadly, seems Spotify at least removed), and then you'd use Last.fm to find new songs to play via your own player. I don't think I remember anyone using the Last.fm radios/playlists, but instead just as a data-browser to find new artists/albums/songs, then play those somewhere else. But this was around 2005 sometime in Sweden, we basically just had Spotify and maybe Grooveshark available for streaming, maybe things typically worked differently elsewhere.