The iPod Nation

A video of the Last.fm 2.0 app was leaked showing off its new features. The video shows that you can listen to music based on tags entered such as the type of music, artist or genre. The app also lets you create playlists and send them to friends. You can also look up info on artist you’re listening too such as touring schedules and concert dates then you can add the concert date to your iPhones calendar. This is a must have app for any music fan with an iPhone.

-Ray

[Source: macrumors]

The snazzy new Last.FM UI

The Last.FM logo

The infamous AudioScrobbler logo

This article was originally posted on the InspireTech blog. Before that it was posted on “Advant-garde”.

I’ve been using Last.FM for several years now. Last.FM is a social music/internet radio/playlist site which keeps track of what music you listen to through the use of a plugin called Audioscrobbler, which essentially records what tracks you’ve played on your computer’s music player (usually iTunes or Windows Media) and sends them to your online profile. Once record, the website begins to take statistics on how much you listen to certain genres, certain artists, and certain songs. The reason it does all of this is so it can give you recommendations for new music based on what you previously listened to. In addition to this, you can create radio stations of your favorite artists, and listen to stations created by your friends. This makes it really easy to discover new and fresh music

The radio stations can listened to through your browser or via the Last.FM software that is available for Macs, PCs, and Linux. In addition to this software, there are many other user-submitted programs available to enhance your experience. There are tons of other cool features that I won’t mention here, so you have to check it out for yourself.

My personal favorite feature is the ability for users to make their own embeddable music chart widgets, which can be used to show people the latest tracks you’ve listened to on your blog or web page. (I have one embedded in my blog’s sidebar!). These widgets automatically update and are available in Flash or Javascript form.

Recently Last.FM introduced the beta of their new interface. You can check it out by creating an account, though I’ve provided a picture of it for you.

The software can be downloaded here, and you can create an account here. My username is thwritingwriter, if you feel like adding me as a friend.

-Jameson

[Source: Advant-garde]