Would you pay it? What are the alternatives? I'm not a huge Pandora fan - ads and limited skipping. Spotify sounds interesting but sleezy, and I just heard about something called Grooveshark I'm looking into. But I'll have to say, I loved Last.fm as long as I had strong 3G. It usually played songs I liked, and I was amassing quite a library and discovering music regularly. So what do you people think? Also, interesting article on how much artists make: How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
I only use last.fm as an alternative to my mp3 collection, I dont use it enough to make it worth paying for it. I will just find another free service. :0(
It might be with it depending how much they charge and whether they fix the variable volume problem. They definitely give me a lot of music I enjoy and don't play the same three band like i get on pandora
I just don't use it enough and Pandora will do the job sufficiently. If I was going to pay for a service, it would probably be Rdio.
I used to do the $3 sub on last.fm but switched to Sirius when I had my BB and couldn't get last.fm on it. may just drop the Sirius when the sub runs out. Dunno if I will reactivate the last.fm sub though.
Will I have to pay more for using the android app or when I log on (as a subscriber) will I be good? http://www.last.fm/user/blackhawks_fan
If you're already a paid subscriber i'd think you'd be fine. Still, I'm just curious who the other (edit) two walruses (walrii?) is/are.
I've had many Last.fm accounts in the past, never have been a subscriber though. I voted no, as I believe this should remain free. I mean, the online radio is still free. Yes, there are ads, which the Android app could have as well. But still...this gives me another reason to not install the Last.fm app.
I never got into these types of services -- Pandora or Last.FM. I listen and discover so much music through other means. Whenever I do try a service like Pandora, it rarely offers me anything new to discover. Any new artists I find on my own are usually not available to explore through Pandora as well. I figure I just listen to too much music in the first place. But seriously, if finding new music is what you are trying to get out of these services.....there are better ways. You just have to do a little more work. Examples are: Blogs, Movie Soundtracks (actively listen during a movie), Live shows, Self Discovery. Music Blogs are large part of it. Authors of many blogs regularly post music to download/listen based around a certain idea/theme or genre. These guys are the music nerds. Chances are there are a bunch of blogs somewhere on the net for the music you like.... On many occasions I find new music by thinking of two unrelated genre's of music I like.....I google the genre combo and end up finding a whole bunch of great stuff. For instance Electro-Swing. I may even find a whole blog where the author regularly posts new similar music.
No doubt! I find a lot on my own as well. Music blogs are amazing! What genres of music do you listen to? Also, do you go to rateyourmusic.com?
Below is a quick list of artists I just copy/pasted from my Facebook..... For Genre's....Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Electro-Swing, Rock, Classic Rock, Classical, Lounge, Jazz, Acid Jazz, Swing, Electronica, House, Trance, Anthem Trance, Goa, Psychedelic Trance, Instrumental Hip-Hop, World, Acoustic, Blues, Chillout, Funk......and dozens more. Manu Chao Kraddy The Gaslamp Killer Blue Sky Black Death Nujabes The Glitch Mob Chinese Man Jamiroquai Grammatik Shpongle Ghostland Observatory Pretty Lights Sol.illaquists of Sound Daft Punk The Crystal Method Kraddy Apollo Brown Brother Ali Immortal Technique James Brown Bi-Polar Bear Hooverphonic Madlib Younger Brother Waldeck Thievery Corporation Massive Attack Artofficial Atmosphere A Perfect Circle Incubus Seu Jorge Jake Shimabukuro David Bowie DJ Shadow DJ Krush Sound Tribe Sector 9 Gogol Bordello Coldplay King Crimson The Black Keys Parov Stelar The Dead Weather Radiohead E.S. Posthumus Hans Zimmer Clint Mansell Julie London Free the Robots Ratatat Simian Mobile Disco Gorillaz Muse Ella Fitzgerald The Apple Juice Kid Miles Davis Charlie Parker Charles Mingus Louis Armstrong Billie Holiday Nina Simone Simon & Garfunkel Yngwie Malmstein The Yardbirds The Who REO Speedwagon Ray Charles Pink Floyd Harry Chapin Electric Light Orchestra Deep Purple Jim Morrison The Doors Creedance Clearwater Revival Diplo The Rolling Stones Yes Boston The Beach Boys Black Violin Clutchy Hopkins Aether Wax Tailor True Live Toki Wright Sweatshop Union RZA Roots Manuva the roots RJD2 Q4 The Problemaddicts Kyteman Method Man & Redman Madvillain Kno Kenichiro Nishihara Jedi Mind Tricks Hocus Pocus Jake One Jean Grae The Herbaliser J Dilla Jaylib MF Doom C2C Eligh Doomtree CunninLynguists Afroman Dutch BK-One Bitter:Sweet Koop Blockhead Blue Scholars Aesop Rock The Beatles Led Zeppelin Goldfrapp Big Gigantic
There's a particular station on the Shoutcast network that I'm a pretty big fan of. If anything, I'll kick them a few bucks. I also listen to WEEI on my Droid, and that radio station is ad supported so they have that covered.
Damn, we have pretty similar tastes, although as usual, I haven't heard about....maybe 1/2 of those artists! SHPONGLE IS AMAZING! Do you know the Divine Moments of Truth?
No, I always had trouble with anyway. I have a Grooveshark VIP account that costs me the same plus I can choose what songs I want to listen to. Looks to me as though in the long term Last.fm is going to fail which is a shame as it started off promising.
Shpongle is the shit man. One of my all time favorites. Been listening to that stuff for a long time now. Yes, I know The Divine Moments of Truth. Shpongle is going to be at Coachella this year (DJ set). You probably did not know they recently did a track called "The God Particle". It was inspired by the large hadron collider. The climax on the song is real beautiful. If you have not heard of a bunch of those artists...you got some listening to do. I can't recommend anything like Shpongle.....cause that is especially unique music. I dunno though....listen to the "Late Night Cinema" album by Blue Sky Black Death [check your pm's]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZiZnTJyYxo
DMT is Shpongle's drug of choice LOL. I love Shpongle with/without supplements. Here is Shpongle's mantra.... "A multi-verse not very far away where queues and noise don't exist neither pain nor fear, scary faces or bad smells...just peace and pieces, and perfect weather Sucking the big toe of humanity, your armchair turns into an aural spacecraft, catapulting you through the veils of reality and consciousness into a psychedelic adult theme park: Sonar Ballistickle, Soma sucking cyber sorcerers floating weightlessly on the threshold of bliss, creating psycho-geometric, atomic telepathic shimmering incandescent dream dilations. This hybrid exotic seretonin drenched electro-plasmic dripping brain forest moves with endless hallucinogenic changing patterns while, unnoticed a million angels dance on a pinhead. Fun-Shui, Phrenological escapology; the divine moment of truth...the inevitability of the ...unexpected - the vortex of the cortex. Knowing what we don't know, while sampling the cosmos; from the darkness to the light; from the unreal to the real....from death to immortality..."
