Last.fm
Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
Features
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Spotify integration- Real-time Statistics
- Personalized Recommendations
- Relational Database
- Audioscrobbler
- Music Recommendation
- Community-based
- Streaming
- Internet Radio
- Talk radio
Tags
Last.fm News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- Jqri liked Last.fm
rosevinnur added Last.fm as alternative to Audioscrobbler- parz3ival liked Last.fm
okwithmydecay added Last.fm as alternative to Record Club- rtrtrt111 rated Last.fm
- rtrtrt111 liked Last.fm
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What is Last.fm?
Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests. The service installs plugins into the user's media player and automatically profiles the songs he/she listens to. The service will offer recommendations and a 'personal' radio station based on the user's listening patterns.
As of early 2009 last.fm charges 3 EUR/month subscription fee to allow listening to music on their website. Paid features include:
- Unlimited radio streaming
- Ad-free browsing and streaming
- Recent visitors to your profile
- A prestigious black icon
- Access to the VIP zone with more charts, graphs and the latest from the Last.fm Labs
Last.fm information
Developed by
last.fm Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
188 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
It is quite sad to see that no real alternative to Last.fm has appeared since its gradual decline started around 2008 or so. It was THE ultimate social network for music geeks, and nothing has really replaced that aspect.
I'm happy that Spotify still supports scrobbling though so I can keep maintaining my Last.fm music profile. 14 years and counting.
Last FM is amazing, old school type of recording your stream with perfection, high velocity and never is down.
if this site ever goes down i will be lost and truly devastated 💔
Top audioscrobbler. I love the recommendations I get from their community database.
I don't really care about the stats, or the followers thing. To me the recommendation system is the single most interesting feature of this site, and it works reasonably well. Sadly, there's nothing you can do to manually tune these recommendations. You cannot exclude artists, or hide tracks you've already listened to.
Also, and this is a bit inexcusable given how old the site is, artists are still not handled properly. Tracks tagged with multiple artists will often not be recognized. MusicBrainz tagging conventions, like putting featured artists in the artist tag and not the track title, are not supported either. And worst of all, Last.fm apparently still can't make a difference between homonyms.
I have had my account since May 2010 and I still use it today. You listen to one good artist and thanks to the algorithm you get to know more and more and more... Something beautiful!
Love this place!