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Post by Nancy on Dec 8, 2007 20:15:13 GMT
Last FM is a site that generates personalised radio stations for it's members. You can do it from the site by typing in a favourite artist and it plays songs by them and similar artists. (E.G if you type in "Bonzo Dog Band " you get songs by the band as well as Rutles songs and Viv and neils solo songs as well as other comedy music and monty python.) If you download the software which is spy ware free and hasn't harmed my computer it finds what you listen too on your computer too and so when you start the radio player it plays all your favourite artists. It's free but there is an option to upgrade that is so cheap it's worth doing. Artists can also submit their own music to be played so it's a good way to get your band heard by people who like artists similar to your own music, and gain new fans. The reason I'm asking is if we made a group over there it would start a radio station for it automatically and we could embed it on the board so people could listen to it while browsing. The sites here, let me know your thoughts. www.last.fm/
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Post by Beautiful Zelda on Dec 11, 2007 16:10:16 GMT
Joined but a bit worried about spyware as we spent about two weeks trying to get rid of some malware. As usual I haven't got round to doing much with Last FM
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Post by Nancy on Dec 11, 2007 16:14:41 GMT
It's not caused me any problems and subsequent spyware scans have revealed nothing, it really does just just monitor what you listen too. You don't even have to download the software it can do it just from the artists you choose on the site. What's your user name? I'll add you.
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Post by Beautiful Zelda on Dec 11, 2007 16:21:49 GMT
Foxfire1875
I'll stick to the artists from the site at the moment tho
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Post by Nancy on Dec 11, 2007 16:24:16 GMT
cool, if a few more people sign up I'll start a group on there and we can have our own radio station. Have you joined the bonzo's and Viv Stanshall group under the links thread too?
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Post by Nancy on Dec 11, 2007 16:26:20 GMT
Foxfire1875 I'll stick to the artists from the site at the moment tho Looks like it's already matched us together as you are on my friends list already. You just need to start the radio player now and type in one of your favourite artists.
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Post by Beautiful Zelda on Dec 11, 2007 16:44:43 GMT
cool, if a few more people sign up I'll start a group on there and we can have our own radio station. Have you joined the bonzo's and Viv Stanshall group under the links thread too? Not yet but will
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Post by Nancy on Dec 11, 2007 16:48:55 GMT
I just sent an email to the bonzo's site hoping to persuade them to add more of their music to the site as we can't without being sued to death. It will be good if they do. And for the information of other bands who may be reading this, any artist can add their own music, it's a good way of finding fans of music similar to yours and therefore will become your fans, just visit this page. www.last.fm/uploadmusic/
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Post by Nancy on Dec 11, 2007 17:12:35 GMT
A tip, try selecting tag and typing in comedy music, I just got a swing jazz version of creep by radio head by someone called Richard Cheese, very funny. Just as I finished typing that it ran out of content for the radio station after 2 songs, so scratch that and just type comedy it yields more results.
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Post by zepmeister7 on Jan 28, 2008 17:31:08 GMT
I lead the VS group on LastFm
paul
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Post by Beautiful Zelda on Jan 30, 2008 10:53:44 GMT
I lead the VS group on LastFm paul I've joined that group but not posted yet.
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Post by Nancy on Jan 30, 2008 12:58:04 GMT
I only posted to direct people here and responded to some threads when I first joined, I must make more of an effort.
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flagellant
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Post by flagellant on May 22, 2008 1:04:01 GMT
I was on Last fm for a while in 2006, before The Great Crash. After I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled everything, I never got around to going back.
You rekindled my interest, so I went to Last fm yesterday and my profile is still there. It looks like the features have been improved since I was there before. I think I'll try it out again for a while. I'm a member of the True Genesis, krautrock, progressive rock, and trip hop groups.
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Post by Patches The Clown on Jun 9, 2008 18:29:49 GMT
Yeah, I use Last.Fm. Great place though it took a while before I figured out just why it's such a good place. You can find new artists by listening to the station or, and I think even better, listen to playlists from people that have similar taste to yourself. I've found a real wealth of artists I'd never hear of on any other medium. I found this forum from a link on Last.Fm
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