You misunderstood what I was saying. My point was that as a streaming service primarily, Spotify has a much larger library of streamable tracks than Last.fm. Last.fm has quite a vast selection, yes, but I was making a distinction between streamable and non-streamable tracks. Last.fm is, in my opinion, better than Pandora at recommending new music and helping me discover it on my own through manual browsing because of the huge amount of user-contributed content that is added, through scrobbling and wiki submissions, everyday. So you can be recommended artists and tracks even if Last.fm don't have them available to stream. That is an advantage it has over Pandora.
I can't really compare Pandora and Last.fm's library of streamable music, as not living in the US I don't use Pandora that often. When I did try it, I found that a lot of the music it was recommending were artists popular in the North American market, and not a lot of it was to my tastes. But as a user of both Spotify and Last.fm, I can say with certainty that Spotify's catalogue is much more extensive, which is useful when Last.fm don't have tracks to stream. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
