snarlydwarf;496201 Wrote: > > And Last.fm has artist pages with tracks by that artist, a bio, events, > videos, shoutboxes, links to journals, links to other sites (official > home page, discographies, etc etc...) Artists that own their own music > are invited to upload it to last.fm... same as MySpace > OK, as you guessed, I never saw that. I do use Last.fm from time to time but what I've seen so far was mainly centered around what _I_ listen to and others that I know or don't know listen to... > > I still don't see a difference except LastFM you don't have to dig > around to find the page, and the pages are not 'official'. And 99% of > them suck with unreadable text on noisy dark backgrounds.... > At least I don't run in danger of getting presented the 9,427th Pussy Cat Dolls song, as Last.fm always insists to do although I did already ban the other 9,426 of them... > > A backend, undocumented, closed API is not an API... > It's well documented. Much better than, say, Squeezebox APIs. I know people who write pretty big software around it. There's a lot of those, you might have heard about one of them, called "YouTube" (although functionality has increased quite a bit since that's been started, it was originally little more than a link provider).
I don't know whether it's closed but that doesn't count, a lot of APIs are closed meaning you need a contract to be granted access, that's fine. I believe the big issue is that it's all DRMed, that's the thing that sucks an what requires you to get MySpace into the boat. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
