Posts Tagged "Last.fm"

Finally got my turn to try out Jolicloud, a “cool new OS for your netbook“. I learned about it several weeks ago and it took quite a while for me to get a invite.

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In all other countries [not United States, United Kingdom or Germany ], listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio.

src: http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement

It happened. Another company turned away a massive portion of the world. Well, they are making them pay for NOT being where the advertisers are. More countries might be added to that list down the road but for some countries like my own, that is highly unlikely.

So everyone else gets about 2 hours of radio. Per account. I am not seeing people going trough the trouble of making multiple accounts to be able to listen to more but come on.. how about limiting people to listening to the charts ? Or to songs freely given to Last.fm for promotional purposes ? You cannot tell me that Last.fm pays for each and every song that is played on it. With a audience as big as this, I bet there are people who would pay for their music to be played more frequently and I wouldnt blame Last.fm for excepting that money.

One of the reasons I think that is already the case is the inability of someone to ban a certain artist or tag. http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/380227/4 And dont go saying it will ban a artist when you ban enough songs. It is simply imposible to get rid of Bri#### Spea## of the pop radio.

I am a subscriber. I love Last.fm (probably tuning in 90% of the time my workstation is on). There was no real reason for me to subscribe back when I did. I just wanted to give something back. I didn’t care and I don’t care for the little things i get extra for subscribing.
And there is where I think the problem is. How about making people want to be subscribed ?

• Songs on demand
• Official Premiers (you say you work directly with artists ?)
• Tickets to concerts .. official ware from artits..

etc… there is so much that could be done.

And fix the damn song exceleration/flickers after a long time of usage. (only noticed that on Vista trough.)