Last.fm wants 3/month from Android listeners

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(

 

+1

 

I don't use it enough to pay for this service..plus I am enjoying Tunein Radio

 

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.

 

No, I won't pay while there are free alternatives.
And 12 gb of space on my sd card.

 

i voted NO... I don't believe in paying for something on my phone that is free on my PC

 

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

 

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

 

Dont use it enough and use tunein radio when i want to listen to music so i will not be subscribing!

 

With a double dose of XTC I might be convinced that is music.

 

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..."

 

I've got buttloads of ways to listen to music on my phone. Paying isn't one of them.

 

Agreed.