Last.FM

Date March 23, 2004

I was happy to discover Last.FM tonight while checking out the Sony Vaio site (Kenton’s talk of laptops has got me excited — I didn’t even realize we had video editing software on ours until tonight). Ever since Echo died, I’ve been looking for a good streaming radio service that will let me have some say in what I am listening too. I know — it’s a lot to ask when I’m not willing to pay a cent, but sure enough, there it is. Its rather interesting (and good marketing) that they give you a profile home page.

Last.fm creates a radio station unique to each listener. Stations are not limited by programming schedules or musical genres, but are compiled by a profiling and recommendation system which compares your musical taste with other listeners. Last.fm Radio tries to do three things for you: Firstly the Last.fm system learns about your musical taste by remembering which songs you listen to and which you skip. Last.fm then uses this knowledge and tries to play you more songs you’ll like, too. If you become a fairly regular Last.fm listener, the system should know you well enough to be able to predict new songs you like.

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