Brett Boyer wrote: > Ok cool. So can you give me aquick breakdown on the difference between the > two?
No problem. Spotify is purely designed and marketed as a music streaming and playback service. Not only can you play tracks, albums or discographies from their vast online library, but you can also add your own local music collection and use it as your media player. It has features such as playlist management, the ability to queue tracks, a crossfader, etcetera, as well as the ability to scrobble to Last.fm. In contrast, Last.fm is, at its core, a music recommendation and statistics service and social network for music lovers. As I wrote about in my last message, you can't choose to play a full album or specific tracks on-demand as you can with Spotify. Last.fm's library of streamable tracks is also much smaller, however it's database of artists, albums, songs, genres, tags and music events is huge and that's why it works so well. Unlike Pandora, everything is user-contributed, so the more songs get scrobbled and the more users use the service, to more data they have to work with. Hope that helps. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
