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Last.fm seems to be slowly buckling under pressure from record labels. At some point recently at the behest of the labels, they started limiting the number of s
by quarterto 14y ago
Last.fm seems to be slowly buckling under pressure from record labels. At some point recently at the behest of the labels, they started limiting the number of skips you were allowed on each station, to something absurdly low like 5. Not even subscribers are allowed more. It's a shame to see CBS's legal team put its concerns ahead of Last.fm and its users.
- lucisferre 14y agoLast.fm was great before CBS, I used to use it all the time. It had one of the better algorithms out there for suggesting music and it introduced me to a lot of great bands after I'd been out of listening to music for a while. Then, for whatever reasons I just stopped using it.
- ninetax 14y agoI still think it's by far the best "here's a band, give me more like it" music suggester. Some how it understands the essence of the band I love and finds lots of bands that are just as good. And many of those bands are so obscure I don't know how I would have found them otherwise.
- lucisferre 14y agoI'd hate to see that technology lost given how poor the alternatives for this are right now. Genius, as a comparison is just terrible. Musicbrainz is pretty much impossible to use (and terrible).
- quarterto 14y agoFor half of the music I listen, this is true. The rest it just doesn't get.
- Keyframe 14y agoI stopped using last.fm when I found out my subscription worked on my computers, but not on my phone. Even if phone was on wifi, it was absurd. Why limit country on phone but not on computer? Since I had to be more and more outside without easy access to desktop I jus tstopped paying and using them.