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Last.fm's music library is about to get a lot bigger
The worlds fourth largest supplier of music, Warner Music Group, has announced yesterday that they will be releasing their entire music collection to use for all of you Last.fm users out there.
With over 15 million users, Last.fm has blown up over the past few years as one of the best social music sites on the net. With integration into digital media players on your computer, such as your iTunes player, Last.fm is able to learn the patters of music listeners. As the first of its kind, this Last.fm and Warner Music merger should prove helpful for both parties: Last.fm with its ad-based player and site should be getting a lot more hits, and Warner gaining the knowledge of how and what people are listening to. And with a lot of artists under their belt, Warner Music may be getting the better end of that deal in their hopes of making Warner something a bit more than the fourth largest supplier of music. I really like Last.fm and make daily use of their services with the Pandor/Last.fm mashup.
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Subscribe to commentsDannyFeb 8th 2007 10:53AM
OpenPandora integrates with Last.fm too, and runs as a standalone application. I love it.
http://openpandora.googlepages.com/
enzoFeb 8th 2007 12:03PM
MOG > Last.fm
SneakerFeb 8th 2007 3:20PM
With services like Pandora, Yahoo Launch Cast, etc. picking the music for people. The stats from Last FM can't really accurately reflect how people listen to music. They would be reflecting how computers pick music for people to listen to.
Ryan SullivanFeb 8th 2007 5:47PM
Yeah, but there is a rating system behind all of the sites you just mentioned. So now all of them will be able to more accurately predict what you will like. Thats the whole basis behind Pandora's algorithms. It plays anything and then, based off of your ratings, it will suggest other songs that you may or may not like. Info like that is gold to music people. Its the same type of stuff behind Google searches and ad-sense.
RobFeb 8th 2007 6:38PM
Sorry but MOG is horrible. last.fm beats MOG handily.