Tag: AUDIOSCROBBLER

We've covered several apps that integrate with the social music platform Last.FM, and we've expressed our worries about what might happen to the site when it was bought by CBS. As it happens, though, Last.FM has only gotten better lately. And now that they've released a shiny new version of their public API, we're hoping for more development on the downloadable app front. Here's the skinny on ...

If you listen to a ton of music and the word "scrobble" is part of your vocabulary, you'll get a kick out of Lastgraph. It's a service that generates interesting visual representations of your Last.fm listening history. You can view a sweet line graph of your listening to a given artist, or you can generate some snazzy posters of your overall listening. The posters are pretty huge and take ...

Web 2.0 music pioneer Last.fm has relaunched with a new look and dropped its "Beta" disclaimer. The new version of the site features a clean look, and a focus that would seem to put rival Pandora directly in its sites. They've even started promoting a new word, "scrobbling", to describe the process of listening to your music collection with tools that allow Last.fm to learn your preferences and ...

Pandora and Last.fm are both services that purport to recommend music to you based on your musical preferences, but in different ways. Pandora lets you pick a song and then recommends song with similar musical qualities. Last.fm, on the other hand, recommends music based on the preferences of other people who like some of the same music you do. Blogger Steve Krause used both Pandora and Last.fm ...