I also don't believe everything has to be free but services like Last.fm have to decide where they fit in the music universe.
I currently subscribe to Napster and will probably even add Spotify. But they are music services that give me random access to a library. To _ME_, Last.fm was always more like a radio then that. As is Pandora. I would be fine with them sending commercials (actually Pandora now does so). I might even pay for one of them. BUT: That's not very likely going to be Last.fm, given my recent experience with them so the only effect that move would have for them would be to completely pop off my radar screen. Does that help their business case? I don't know, they will know better. Will it help the record companies' business case? Definitely not. I recently bought quite a bit of music I heard on Last.fm and Pandora first (mainly Pandora). These services are really good music discovery tools that fit right alongside radio and where MTV used to be. Back then. You know: Record companies NEED that if they want to sell music, people are not going to buy the stuff again that they already have... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85478 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
