http://www.last.fm/about/subscriptionradio Once I finally got used to it they start charging €3.00 for the service. Just great. I actually made a good use of it at work, in my father's notebook or everywhere else where I couldn't fill the HDD with music.
They did the same with pandora (halting the usage outside of the US). Hopefully, using a proxy will let us keep listening to free music.
Yeah, I just read that too. I don't know yet if this is time to say goodbye to last.fm or to install a proxy.
It is (present tense; it has not gone anywhere ) a music-based social networking site (or something along those lines - but more on the "music" side and less on the "social networking" bit, but it has both). What you downloaded will be the stand-alone player to play the radio. It basically has a huge amount of music on it and it "learns" which bands are like other bands by tracking what listeners play. You can then listen to stations like "bands similar to Children Of Bodom". Users can also tag tracks/bands, so you can listen to stations like "tagged as technical death metal". I use it at work to listen, mainly, to the "my library" station, which plays loads of music from bands I've listened to in the past. It's also great for finding new bands, too. Visit http://last.fm/ and search for a band you like. If you sign up, it can track your music listening habbits (which has good and bad points, but I like the good points). You get a page which shows stats like this: http://www.last.fm/user/Aypok.
I said 'was' because I live in the UK and, well it seems as if I may not get to experience it as it is now by the time I get back home. Thanks for the info!
Actually they postponed the arrival of the subscription only radios. http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/30/radio-announcement-revisited It seems that they have difficulties recruiting companies willing to pay for advertisement outside of Germany/UK/US.
