I'm torn on this ... I love last.fm as a means to scrobble stuff and see what I'm listening to (I know that no-one else cares but it keeps me amused) ... yes this will continue to be free, for now.
I also love using last.fm as a music discovery tool and have lost count of how much I have spent on CD's and downloads of artists I discovered via Last.fm that I would never have heard of otherwise. But I only ever investigated new music via last.fm sporadically and at times when nothing else seemed appropriate to listed to at the time ... this would have been a few times a month but those session could have made me explore 6 or 8 artists and buy the same or more CD's / downloads. Am I willing to pay £3 a month for the ability to be able to go and search out new music? Possible, I subscribe to Q and NME in print to effectively do the same I guess ... am I likely to? probably not ... I might explore Napster instead as I can at least then listen to the stuff Q & NME tell me is worth listening to. But I have to say that my life would be worse off without Mono, Explosions in the Sky, Kevin Devine, Manchester Orchestra, The Radio Dept, Air Formation, Malory etc whom I would never have experienced without Last.fm I think the record companies should be funding last.fm to encourage people like me to find new sources of listening and therefore create new sources of revenue ... now that's a business model !!! -- mjm2705 ========================================= Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/mjm2705 ========================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mjm2705's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34755 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85478
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