After siging up, any track that you 'love' on lastfm will automatically generate a tweet from you that has the track's artist and name, as well as a link to it so your followers can give it a listen.
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.
So do us a favour – if you see people spreading the rumour, refer them to this blog post and mention you heard from a friend that “Techcrunch are full of shit.”
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1. For your Desktop: Downloadable tools, plug-ins, and more 2. For the Web: Images, stats, and mashups, oh my 3. For Social Networks: Last.fm apps for Facebooks, blogs, etc
...takes the 50 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and creates a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a "tag cloud" like description of highly recommended artists.
For over a year now Last.fm has been encouraging their users to machine tag flickr photos with last.fm event ids.
"The LastFM Open Mind Index (OMI) is an interesting way to understand your taste in music. The index is a calculation based on your last.fm top artists of the last 12 months. The quantity of your played songs, as well as the artist-tags are reflected in the calculation. A high OMI is an indicator for a high musical bandwidth and your openness for different kind of music." Rocketsurgeon
Enter an artists name and get the artist's bio, album info, and similar artist info. Also search for Mp3's to play or download, and get links to the artist's page on Last.fm, Pandora etc.
"Muxtape is also really cool," Sit explained, "but you need to manually upload the MP3s, which makes it a drag to create a muxtape and update it." FavTape solves both problems by grabbing song URLs from SeeqPod to power an on-demand service that creates Muxtape-like web page mixtapes out of your Pandora or Last.fm favorites.
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A while back Last.fm released a command line tool to retrieve metadata for an arbitrary mp3 from their new fingerprint database. I tried it yesterday and it seemed way better than MusicBrainz. So, as a person with a lot of random mp3s, I cooked up a script for retagging entire folders of songs.
So, I'm trying my hand at Cocoa, namely RubyCocoa. Objective-C is a bit out of my grasp right now. If I start needing big performance boosts, I'll go that route. In the meantime, writing RubyCocoa apps is insanely fun. I wrote this basic tagger in 2 days (roughly 6 hours) and it works pretty well! If you plan on trying out this app, create a small playlist with the name 'lastfmtagger' and put a few albums in there.
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You are supposed to be able to listen to an artist and read their Wikipedia entry (if one exists) at the same time. I say supposed to, because when I tried it I was only able to get it to play music similar to the artist.
new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to
new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to
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LastFMProxy is a proxy server for the last.fm radio streams. It allows you to use your regular old audio player to listen to the last.fm streams. It does this by acting as a player itself, connecting to the server on your behalf, but instead of playing th
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