What is Last.fm? This is a social networking site for music fans. You can share your music tastes (or inflict, if you will) with others and check out their recommendations too. Obviously you’ll need a PC with speakers to hear the music. Basic subscription costs Euro2.50pm though you won’t need to pay on sign up so you can have a look around first. US, UK and Germany residents can currently trial the On-Demand service where users can trial a track up to three times for free.
How do I do that? When you sign up, you’ll get a library within your profile to which you can add tracks, artists and albums and create playlists. You listen to the music you’ve added, or your friends or any users choice, through radio stations. Just press the play button next to a track if you want to listen to that one specifically. Search for artists using the search button then click ‘add ‘add to my library’ and save. You can also add songs by scrobbling.
Excuse me? Yes, scrobbling is on odd word. To scrobble means that every track you listen to is sent or ‘scrobbled’ to your profile. If you’ve downloaded the last.fm software, you can also scrobble tracks you’ve listened to on your iPod or media player and those artists will be sent to your Last.fm profile.
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