I am fucking obsessed with Last.fm

Over the past few days I’ve become completely obsessed with last.fm. If you’re a last.fm user you should hit up my profile and add me. If you’re not it might be because, like I was, you are completely baffled by why the hell you’d use a site that only lets you play 30 second previews of songs.

Well I finally figured it out. Last.fm records every time you listen to a song on iTunes, your iPod, on the Last.fm website or through their Scrobbling app, and then lets you play any of those songs back from their database any time. The trick is you don’t get to pick the order. It’s like radio, only radio that’s totally tailored to your tastes. It’s like Sirius or XM only not shit and a tenth the price.

And not only can you play your library of songs (anywhere you can access a browser, I might add), you can have Last.fm play you recommended songs based on your library, but also on the libraries of all of the other people on the site who have tastes like yours. The algorithm, basically, is fucking awesome.

Once you’re a subscriber (a paltry $3 a month btw) you have unlimited playback access to your library, recommended songs, my library, libraries of anyone else on the site, playlists you create, tag- or genre-based libraries — the list is endless.

Last.fm doesn’t replace you getting new music yourself (however you do that these days), it’s just a way to find great new music based on your tastes, and to create tailored internet radio streams that you can listen to anywhere.

/end shill. Here’s my profile: last.fm/user/chrisframpton