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Last.fm has a rating of 3.6 stars from 44 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Last.fm most frequently mention new music. Last.fm ranks 5th among Radio sites.
There's was a few changes with last.fm. Users always complain about it, but they always move on and use it till the day. So i guess it's just about some kind of habit or an old friend that you can't just break up with.
Artists, bands, music labels, be aware of the facts that this website allows its users to illegally upload your copyrighted music; and your music is generating a lot of revenue for this company through paid subscriptions and high-end ads and google tracking. You might assume that because a page has been set-up already for your band or label that you will be able to make use of the page, making it a place where your fans can leave "shouts" that are comments about your music. And you will probably assume that you'll have complete control over the images which represent you and your albums. You do not have control over much of anything on lastfm. Not only does this website allow users to constantly troll the "shoutboxes" of band pages, but they also allow users to get away with uploading "fake" images which usually have nothing to do with you or your albums. As a band page owner I am constantly having to report the same violations of supposed "rules" which this company claims to have in place to respect bands/artists. Every time I ask the ones who run this website a question, or every time I attempt to get users banned from uploading "fake" album cover pics, I am always given quick, extremely rude emails in return--telling me that I, basically, have no rights over the page which represents me and my band. On several occasions I've been told that I stand to have my own user name/account banned if I don't stop "spamming". Lastfm claims that they are happy to work along side of artists to see that the pages representing them are free of lastfm copyright and rules violations. But this company does not honour these statements. The staff are beyond rude and disrespectful towards artists. Lastfm makes a lot of revenue off of artist pages. Contact them a few times about why they don't allow bands to have more options to control their own pages and you'll find out quickly that this website cares nothing about your opinions or concerns. They are aggressively concerned with making large profits from their website. They are not in the business of caring about whom they are making that profit off of. Artists, bands, music labels should, at the very least, be given, by-law, the choice as to whether they want a lastfm page with their name on it. Period.
There's was a few changes with last.fm. Users always complain about it, but they always move on and use it till the day.
So i guess it's just about some kind of habit or an old friend that you can't just break up with.
Date of experience: April 23, 2016
I've used last.fm since 2015. This is great when you see the evolution of your music preferences, statistics can say really a lot about you and that's how you remember what has happened in October 2016, for instance, your mood and inner state. Also, recommendations work well and help you to discover new bands that you probably will like. Also, there is a lot of information about the bands.
Date of experience: June 19, 2019
last.fm has been able to build up a very large database of music profiles and any kind of recommendation system, It is providing good music recommendations and it easily attract listeners. You can watch what thousands of people are playing; they have extremely accurate and up to date music charts and home maker creating. You can have good entertainment. So I am really appreciate.
Date of experience: September 24, 2014
If I really want to listen to some new music while I'm working and I don't want to pay attention to how I get it (ie, read articles) I use Last.fm. For me, it's better at finding obscure new music than Pandora. Although I find some of the pay upgrade prompts annoying (you have to pay if you want to hear a radio station based only on your favorite songs) and you have to download a client, which often crashes on my Windows Vista. Net net - not bad.
Date of experience: October 23, 2009
Last.fm is better for finding new music than Pandora - I hate downloading things, but the Last.Fm client is worth it. It keeps track of all the music you listen to on your computer and then plays songs for you based on those preferences. I also like Pandora, but Last.Fm has a larger variety of new music suggestions (indie rock, bluegrass, whatever).
Date of experience: January 23, 2009
I think I like all the other ones beside this one. Pandora and iheart radio rock! I give them this much credit. I thought it was cool when they first came out. It's not as cool as how it use to be since all these other guys came out with better features and stuff..
Date of experience: August 16, 2010
Unlike other websites, last.fm provides users with the ability to reach out to new artists while listening to music that suits one's own tastes. I have found many different songs that I enjoy through this website and feel that it has helped me become more informed with the artists that I like to listen to. It's great being able to listen to commercial free music while giving money back to the bands through the advertisements and last.fm does a lot for the music industry for recognition.
Date of experience: February 19, 2010
Great music site.
Simply type in an artist you want to hear (after making a free account) and you can hear your favorite music and similar music. With FireFox you can install it as an add-on so you can listen to it anytime without having to leave the page you are on.
It also is nice since you can love or hate songs so they will never play again or more often. If you have an Xbox 360 w/ a gold membership you can link you fire.fm account and listen to the music on your 360 with the additional bonus of seeing pictures.
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Date of experience: April 15, 2010
I used to use pandora until they started charging money to use the site and then I heard about last.fm. Not only is it free but it is a better engine as well. Say goodbye to pandora, last.fm I think will win this battle of the music discovery platform
Date of experience: August 21, 2009
last.fm helps me find new music and to see what my friends are listening to. I really like seeing how my music tastes have evolved over the years and with the new year in review feature I will see who were my favourites every year with very detailed descriptions.
Date of experience: October 31, 2018
Nice alternative to Pandora. Pandora seems to have access to bigger artists and possibly a much larger music library, but (as others have noted) Pandora also tends to repeat songs more often.
Last.fm is a great place to discover new music, but there are a lot of great artists (famous and not-so-much) whose music is on Pandora but not available on Last.fm.
Date of experience: March 22, 2012
I used to check Last Fm couple times per hour in the past. But after changes they've made I don't use this website so often. Still the project are awesome!
Date of experience: November 9, 2016
And all in one place. Subscribe to the interesting music creators, find your favorite performers. And take your favorite music with you everywhere you go!
Date of experience: January 16, 2017
I liked last.fm when it was free, although they repeat the playlists over and over again. I found this free website: http://www.tv243.com very useful to find similar artists and bands
Date of experience: January 26, 2010
Last.fm, you will never get old, at least i hope so, otherwise I would have to find a new way to keep myself busy in the evenings
Date of experience: November 20, 2015
This is a decent service. I find it easier to just do a youtube search for a band that i like and then look at the recommended videos.
Date of experience: September 9, 2015
A good music service for everyday use. Concerning complaints about some new features - I guess that happens everywhere... Still one of my favorites.
Date of experience: December 2, 2016
Yeah I like it but I don't like how xbox 360 has monopolized it. I prefer YouTube - well - I preferred Youtube - before Vevo monopolized it.
Date of experience: April 17, 2010
Great way to listen to music and a great site in general. Very impressive.
Date of experience: May 22, 2014
I have been with last.fm for 4 years. I have over 200,000 scrobbles. I love how it has my own hit list. Tells me what bands I listened to the most that week. What song I listened to the most that week. Then there is an overall list of my listens. They have radio that caters to me. My Sprint Hero has an app and I can listen to it when I don't have a radio or my Ipod. This is one of those sites that is just perfect.
I like that you can set up groups and it'll run group lists. I watched this site while American Idol was going on this year and it pretty much helped guess who was going to go home based on how many listens they were getting. Kris and Adam were the top two the entire season.
This is a great site for those that love music.
I have not used the forums. I think that I looked at them one time and I'm not into many forums because they don't look comfortable for reading and posting.
Date of experience: December 31, 2009
If you love music- you like last.fm
Here you can find any style of music, bands, or singers, and just any information you need. You can listen to the best songs and view photos, watch videos. So, I think it's a very usefull site.
Date of experience: November 2, 2014
A truly great source to find new music. I love the scrobble feature that they offer and their recommendations and neighbors are right on the money. The radio station that they offer are brilliant and I could really not ask for anymore. This is a great resource for any music lover!
Date of experience: October 10, 2009
Preferred over pandora - after finding that pandora really wasn't suggesting any particularly fresh or new bands, i turned to last.fm. Last is user-friendly and chock full of good bands and songs, without being repetitive in its suggestions. You can allow it access to your music folder and play songs straight on last.fm. Each new track shows you a couple of other bands you might like that aren't necessarily in your library yet. I've found a handful of new bands in one sitting, everything from chamber pop to folk to shoegazing to rock and on and on. Each piece of feedback that you provide, whether you love a track or ban it, seems to be taken into consideration.
Date of experience: January 7, 2009
An ongoing music recommendation database - "Last.fm" (once known as "Audioscrobbler") offers media player plugins to its users. These plugins, which can be installed onto iTunes, Winamp and others, will monitor and record the ID3 data of any MP3 played by that media player. This is uploaded to a large database, which finds other users who have played the same tracks and recommends you new musical artists based on their databases. You can even download the Last.fm Player and listen to sample songs by your recommended bands. I have used this service since September of 2005, and it has never ceased to be a source of new music for me.
Date of experience: August 13, 2008
Other than having to download the player, last.fm is by far the best site to discover new music. And I have all my friends on it now so we can share what we like and don't like. I can't get enough.
Date of experience: July 30, 2009
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