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Last.fm review

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So I read an article about Last.fm awhile ago in some random magazine and thought about it today. I was sitting at my desktop and wanted to listen to some music instead of the TV that’s usually in the background.

Last.fm dubs itself as the “social music revolution”. Apparently it’s suppose to be able to recommend new songs based on ones you like. I downloaded the program and it “scrobbled” my listening history to try to determine what to recommend to me. I liked every other song that it played which isn’t too bad. The ability to immediately skip to the next track is useful.

Last.fm is currently free but is limited. You can only listen to tracks up to three times for free. There’s an unlimited listening subscription that’s coming out and a basic subscription for $3/month that basically removes the ads from the main page and other personalization features.

I honestly hope they don’t screw up the free access to their site as a subscription model will not work. I don’t plan on ever paying for any subscription to Last.fm because radio isn’t premium content to me. Maybe if the unlimited listening subscription was at most $5/month and they had as many songs available as iTunes did then I’d consider it. Last.fm has limited use in that you can’t take it everywhere with you (unlike a song purchased on iTunes).

Try it out, while the free access is still decent.