Last.fm

crobzub recommended this 11 months, 1 week ago

The automatically generated radio stations, especially "My Neighbourhood" give you a good range of songs, both familiar and new.

Mythopsyche recommended this 1 year ago

A useful intersection of music and social networking.

kozzed recommended this 1 year, 2 months ago

Really cool social site. I mostly liked ilike , but it's closed now.

cantflap43 recommended this 1 year, 2 months ago

As a resource for keeping track of your music listening activities, last.fm is great - offering weekly, monthly and overall charts for artists, albums and tracks. However, as a tool to discover new music, the artist recommendations by the site itself are pretty hit and miss.

yeswecancan recommended this 1 year, 3 months ago

Such a great place to find music that suits your personal taste. And if you're a little statistic geek like I am there are great features for that. I've been using it as my start page for six years!

hansonty recommended this 1 year, 4 months ago

Smarter than Pandora, bigger than your music collection- comes with more gadgets and gew-gaws than your phone. And it's free.

gwendalphalipaud recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

nice social tool about the music you are listening to

nothingelseis recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

it's too easy to plug-in and too powerful not to be using. (if you're on spotify, hooking in last.fm is a no-brainer.) however, it's true that the site can sometimes feel a little slow to move with the times. a sleeping giant, but a giant nonetheless.

anytao recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

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leoarce recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

good music recommending site

dasr recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

Love it!
Mostly for the radios, I prefer it over grooveshark & spotify any day.

kkuh recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

Amazing service, spot-on recommendations. I've learned about more music through this than any other digital service. Their artist index is better than any other (including Grooveshark or Spotify). The community has been great - hints for new artists, free downloads, and upcoming shows. Also the streaming through XBOX is awesome, and I highly recommend it to all XBOX Live users.

fadedsilks recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

Great tracking service (it connects with your itunes and a lot of music playing websites like 8tracks and Hypem) so you can see what you've been listening to, and it recommends bands that are actually compatible with your tastes unlike other similar websites. It also offers an event calendar which shows everything from small to large gigs, and it recommends festivals based on your music taste.

Buzzahfoo recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

Great music tracking service. Let's you and everyone else you know keep tabs on what you've been listening to, plus great recommendations I can almost guarantee you've never heard of before

bearskinthug recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

It's like pandora, only a million times better.

colinklein recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

I used to rave about Pandora, but after a few months of rating music, you'll find it just starts playing the same stuff over and over. Last.fm has never failed to supply me with new and interesting music recommendations.

hello_emily recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

Perfect for lazy music lovers.

claire-mercier recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

Clever music website, good community, and very useful list of gigs (plus some free downloads)!

fallon_x_michele recommended this 1 year, 9 months ago

I use it every day!

lejaclyn recommended this 1 year, 11 months ago

Catalogue your music listening history, see charts of your listening habits organized by year, month, artist, etc. dating back years, compare music tastes with friends, be informed of shows of bands you like happening in the area, make friends with people attending the same shows of you, have your music library streamed on the go, and show off your fine, sophisticated, eclectic taste in music.

maximum246 recommended this 1 year, 11 months ago

Great way to keep a record of what you listen to the most, and usually does a pretty good job for recommendations. The social element isn't too invasive. Has other useful features such as concert and album notifications and the custom radios.

lovesample recommended this 1 year, 12 months ago

Amazing for different reasons, you can have your own music countdown!

dbg recommended this 2 years ago

Great for recording what you listen to. Big data for a little person.

I'm not too fussed about anything else they do — recommended artists, radio to play, chatting amongst fans, etc, etc. And songkick do a better job of recommending gigs for me to go to based on the same data.

ebol4anthr4x recommended this 2 years ago

Last.FM is a great radio thing. Being able to "scrobble" what you're listening to from your own media players is an awesome feature.

sugardaddie recommended this 2 years ago

Amazing radio station. Great choice of songs.

angott.al recommended this 2 years ago

Create a library of your favorite artists, get recommendations on ones that you may like, listen, talk on the boards, check out who is having a concert near you, and more

jamestaylorweb recommended this 2 years ago

large library of artists and plays well with iTunes

lgsunshine recommended this 2 years, 6 months ago

Most of my new finds come through this site. Love the different ways music can be recommended.
Cons: yes - if you are not in certain countries you have to pay. :(

bazsi79 recommended this 2 years, 6 months ago

Great tool to keep track of songs you listen to, while generating charts and recommending new songs based on your taste. Scrobbling is free of charge for everyone.
Cons: Listening to music is free only in a couple of countries, otherwise you need to pay a monthly fee for it.

tefflox recommended this 2 years, 7 months ago

Solid integration with all kinds of standalone music players, in addition to its own solid standalone player, providing background info on each artist/song. Very nice website.
Cons: While the recommendation engine is awesome once you scrobble a lot of songs, the site could do more to engage its social-networking aspects.

jelly1 recommended this 2 years, 8 months ago

A place where you can represent your favorite music, find similar artists, and connect with people like you. Oh, and show off the number of scrobbles you have :)
Cons: There are many trolls at any given time, ready to insult your music taste (though I find it slightly entertaining).

concordflight13 recommended this 2 years, 8 months ago

Fantastic way to see trends in your music habits, lightweight, and unobtrusive.
Cons: Can't think of anything. Polished and simple.

neofob recommended this 3 years ago

A complete site with all the nice features one could imagine.
Cons: It was even better when one could listen to music for free outside US and UK.

agquarx recommended this 3 years ago

Lots of new music discoveries. Lots of like-minded people to talk to and share music tastes with. Generally sympathetic crowd. Eliminates the need to type all the music u like every time u meet sbd
Cons: The radio sometimes skips or need reconnecting. Lots of new music to discover and not enough bandwidth to download it ;-). If you are from a wrong country, you need to pay for radio service.

alj93 recommended this 3 years, 1 month ago

Exposes you to a wide variety of bands and even genres that you otherwise might not have heard of. If you like listening to music, then this site is most certainly for you.
Cons: As a previous user mentioned, the social aspect of this site is indeed pretty limited. The focus is on music.

jamidwyer recommended this 3 years, 3 months ago

I love that I can track my favorite music through laptop crashes. A personalized tag radio is way better than Pandora's "music genome". App to play on my mobile device.
Cons: Not everything is there. You can't play music in the order you want -- you have to shuffle.

rhapsody1386 recommended this 3 years, 3 months ago

I know several people who have an account with last.fm and enjoy it.

sebassjee recommended this 3 years, 4 months ago

Allmost all artists are findable!
The information is open (XML, RSS), you can create stuffs with your stats.
Find people who have the same taste as you.
Cons: You need subscription to listen to radio's outside the UK, USA and Germany.