Scrobble Anyone?
Apple’s iPod changed the way we listen to music. The evolution continued with music recommendation sites like Pandora.com. Now, Internet radio site Last.fm has taken it a step further by adding social networking to the music mix.
Scrobble?
Last.fm users download a player that automatically logs or “scrobbles” any track played on the user’s computer and user-assigned searchable tags build an ever-expanding music database. In addition to access to millions of personal music collections, users have the ability to blog, chat, listen to each other’s stations, recommend music, and list music events in their area. It creates a forum for users to connect to each other based on common musical interests or geographic location.
While there are still limitations to this new medium, it’s the beginning of yet another gigantic step forward in the way we experience music.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
As a Pandora user I’m intrigued by what Last.fm purports to offer. Fascinating, how fickle my allegiance is to any particular internet radio brand over another. Tough world out there.
The Last.fm interface alone has me half sold. The preponderance of ads and brazen ceding of user interface real estate on the part of Pandora was an issue for me from the start.