The more third party services I can plug into my Last.fm account, the more complete – and thus useful -this profile will be. I’ve discovered a number of new bands this way. Quite often, it’s there.īy keeping track of my listening habits, Last.fm is able to build out a comprehensive profile of my tastes and then, based on its own algorithm, recommend other artists and songs to me. Sometimes, when a track isn’t available on Spotify or SoundCloud, I’ll go straight to YouTube and look for it. ![]() Between Spotify’s library and my local MP3s, I now have immediate access to much more music than ever before, and Last.fm is keeping track of all of it. When I joined Spotify this summer, I turned on the Last.fm integration. Every song I ever listened to in iTunes or on my iPod has been noted by Last.fm’s servers via the service’s scrobbling mechanism. ./Last.fm.exe -stylesheet path/to/Last.fm.css On Linux, if you have not run make install, you can run the app like this from the root of the source directory: bin/lastfm-scrobbler -stylesheet app/client/Last.fm\ Scrobbler. Last.fm Scrobbler is created for people who listen to music online through their browser, and would like to keep an updated playback history using Last.fms. Wait, Last.fm? Isn’t that service so 2007? It’s been awhile since the buzz about Last.fm as an Internet radio service peaked, but for many, it still provides one of the best music recommendation engines out there. ![]() A new plugin for Google Chrome fixes that. For users of the social radio and music recommendation service Last.fm, YouTube has always lived on off its own island, unable to be “scrobbled” back to the mothership.
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