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Old 24-01-2008, 07:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.

Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be.

Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening our coverage into other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track can be played up to 3 times for free before a notice appears telling you about our upcoming subscription service. The soon-to-be announced subscription service will give you unlimited plays and some other useful things. We’re also working on bringing full-length tracks to the desktop client and beyond.


Free full-length tracks are obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song. Music on Last.fm is perpetually monetized. This is good because artists get paid based on how popular a song is with their fans, instead of a fixed amount.

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Old 24-01-2008, 07:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Yep, the world's largest jukebox alright!

Now the next thing to do is integrate the last.fm streaming software to the now-rising All-Online OSes.
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Old 24-01-2008, 07:34 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Grreat . Now it'd as easy as clicking a link for listening someone's recommended song rather than searching for the song , downloading it n then listening (and that too illegally )
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Old 26-01-2008, 03:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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hows the quality of songs there,what codec?
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Old 26-01-2008, 03:21 PM   #5 (permalink)
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^^ Its streaming.... Quality is 64 kBps I guess... (from listening experience.)

I love Last.fm.(Thanks Qwerty for introducing me to it in may 2007.)

Its a great way to know what ur friends are listening to.
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Its 128kbps stream... and you can download them too..
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you can download or rip anything that you can here . . by the way , do we have trance in it ?
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Old 26-01-2008, 04:16 PM   #8 (permalink)
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you can download or rip anything that you can here . . by the way , do we have trance in it ?
There are those and there are genres you never would have heard of before, CBS Last.fm is HUGE, and much varied than Pandora!
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Old 26-01-2008, 04:38 PM   #9 (permalink)
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There are those and there are genres you never would have heard of before, CBS Last.fm is HUGE, and much varied than Pandora!
yeah the user defined genres like "brutal death metal" for Paris Hilton...lol
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i still see that many tracks r only 30sec preview???
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i still see that many tracks r only 30sec preview???
Yeah commercial ones are all that way, unless they decided to release some for free or people's mixes made for them are put there. What is free there for India is the load of Indie and other small time bands who are actually good and not commercial crap. Full streaming of commercial tracks isn't available for Indian users yet.

T159 - Those are minor er, exclusions, *cough*
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i still see that many tracks r only 30sec preview???
your dashboard generally contains full tracks frm your fav artists
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hindi music streaming here- www.dhingana.com

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