Re: Help needed with last.fm
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: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hi, I'd argue about the library of last.fm. They've got tons and tons and tons of music that has surprised me. I want neofolk, last.fm has all kinds of bands, pandora has much fewer. If I look at the psychedelic or dark ambient, or different styles of metal, and last.fm beats pandora hands down. Also, when getting into more obscure styles of music, say coil or the legendary pink dots, last.fm's recommendations are way better than pandora's. I'd not, for example, lump Depeche mode, or the Petshop boys in at all with the Legendary Pink Dots. Last.fm pulled some related acts, psychic tv, Nurse with Wound, etc etc, which is more a kin, also, some early industrial like Throbbing Grissle. Even with mainstream stuff, there are tracks off of albums that pandora does not have. I can't comment on spotify. Apparently, it's not accessible, and I hardly have any money to test it right now. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: James Scholes ja...@jls-radio.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm 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: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
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: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hi, I've not had last.fm recommend anything to me that it couldn't stream, maybe it's dew to copyright where you are? Every last song it's recommended I could stream. Oh, I know what you are talking about. you can't stream them on demand, but in many cases, you can add the artist to your library, and the track will come up. That's way more common with more popular bands. The bands I listen to tend to be a lot of brit ausie german bands that don't care, so I don't tend to hit that problem so much. I remember encountering it with enigma. I understand now. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: James Scholes ja...@jls-radio.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm 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: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Richard Claypool wrote: I've not had last.fm recommend anything to me that it couldn't stream Ah, well, a lot of the time I browse the site manually, following tags and similar artists lists, rather than just looking at my automatic recommendations, so that's when I discover music that I can't stream. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
I have some interesting friends on last.fm, so I listen to their stuff, and it opens me up to new vistas of music. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: James Scholes ja...@jls-radio.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Richard Claypool wrote: I've not had last.fm recommend anything to me that it couldn't stream Ah, well, a lot of the time I browse the site manually, following tags and similar artists lists, rather than just looking at my automatic recommendations, so that's when I discover music that I can't stream. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hi, Let's say that you type in an artist from the main page, then click on the artist. Now, you'll want to play artist's radio, which will play similar artists to the band. If you type in say technical death into the field, you can play technical death tagged radio. As you can see, I'm something of a metal fan myself. Let me know if tht helps, rick witter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hi, There's multi tag radio and myulti artist radio. In both situations, pick upto either 3 tags, or 3 artists of any style, and it will create a station. I use the old winamp scrobbler and scrobble stuff to last.fm, so it has a good idea of my musical tastes. After a few songs, you can have it play your recommended station. If you'e using firefox, there are shortcut keys for next song, bann song, love song, pause, and resume. I've never gotten these keys to work in internet explorer. If one makes different friends, one can listen to a single friend's station, or reciently played tracks by all friends. The bad news is, no way to change the volume to my knowledge in the web site. The only links I've found are mute, or full volume. I've been using last.fm for around 3 or so years now. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Yeh, that agrees with my experience with last.fm. If I want to listen to some classic rock, I might create a station for Queen, and I'll hear Queen plus music from related bands. I also find that last.fm seems to do a pretty good job of picking related artists. On 06/06/12 15:47, Evan Reese wrote: Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. Evan - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
where can I get the winamp stuff to get last.fm working in there? On 6/9/2012 12:56 PM, Mike Edwards wrote: I've never gotten it to work with winamp, just use flash, but I haven't tried for 3 or so years. I'll have to give it another wirl. - Original Message - From: Richard Claypool bellevue@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 5:44 AM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Hi, There's multi tag radio and myulti artist radio. In both situations, pick upto either 3 tags, or 3 artists of any style, and it will create a station. I use the old winamp scrobbler and scrobble stuff to last.fm, so it has a good idea of my musical tastes. After a few songs, you can have it play your recommended station. If you'e using firefox, there are shortcut keys for next song, bann song, love song, pause, and resume. I've never gotten these keys to work in internet explorer. If one makes different friends, one can listen to a single friend's station, or reciently played tracks by all friends. The bad news is, no way to change the volume to my knowledge in the web site. The only links I've found are mute, or full volume. I've been using last.fm for around 3 or so years now. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Yeh, that agrees with my experience with last.fm. If I want to listen to some classic rock, I might create a station for Queen, and I'll hear Queen plus music from related bands. I also find that last.fm seems to do a pretty good job of picking related artists. On 06/06/12 15:47, Evan Reese wrote: Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. Evan - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.930 / Virus Database: 2433.1.1/5057 - Release Date: 06/08/12 11:54:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
There seems to be some confusion here about Last.fm features and which ones can and cannot be used with Winamp, so let me try and clear it up. Scrobbling: Scrobbling is the act of submitting the tracks you play in Winamp or the media player of your choice to Last.fm so that they show up on your profile. This data is used at the very core of Last.fm, it's what makes the service work. Submitting the songs you play on your computers or other devices is what allows the site to recommend you new artists, albums and tracks. It also provides you with quite a nice platform with which to track your listening habbits. You can scrobble with the official Last.fm Scrobbler, which last time I checked was not accessible, or by using a plug-in for your media player of choice; there is one for Winamp, foobar2000, etcetera, and you can also scrobble from within Spotify if that's your thing. Last.fm Radio: This is the portion of the Last.fm service which allows you to stream tracks from their online library. You cannot, I repeat not, stream individual tracks or albums on-demand as you can with Spotify. The radio service is designed to play either a selection of music that you like, music that Last.fm thinks you'll like, or music that your friends and people with similar tastes to you like. Without using a piece of 3rd party software as a proxy, you cannot play these radio stations in Winamp, however the playback controls on the website are accessible and the music you play in the Flash player will be scrobbled to your profile. Hope that helps, and I'll chime in again if there's anything else people don't understand about the service. I've been a long-time user of both Last.fm and Spotify, so am quite well-aquainted with them. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hi, I'm not talking about the ability to play music from within the player, but merely to scrobble i.e. send data about what you're listening to on winamp back to the last.fm server. For that to work, the tracks have to be added to winamp's library, but don't have to be played through the library. The external players for last.fm will only work for subscribers. if you are one, try speakon. Google something like speakon last.fm or something. Read the manual before using it. The author created this suit of applications with his personal use in mind,and he likes using it, lying in bed, with a numbpad. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Mike Edwards m...@ultraemail.us To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm I've never gotten it to work with winamp, just use flash, but I haven't tried for 3 or so years. I'll have to give it another wirl. - Original Message - From: Richard Claypool bellevue@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 5:44 AM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Hi, There's multi tag radio and myulti artist radio. In both situations, pick upto either 3 tags, or 3 artists of any style, and it will create a station. I use the old winamp scrobbler and scrobble stuff to last.fm, so it has a good idea of my musical tastes. After a few songs, you can have it play your recommended station. If you'e using firefox, there are shortcut keys for next song, bann song, love song, pause, and resume. I've never gotten these keys to work in internet explorer. If one makes different friends, one can listen to a single friend's station, or reciently played tracks by all friends. The bad news is, no way to change the volume to my knowledge in the web site. The only links I've found are mute, or full volume. I've been using last.fm for around 3 or so years now. twitter http://twitter.com/richardclayppol last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm Yeh, that agrees with my experience with last.fm. If I want to listen to some classic rock, I might create a station for Queen, and I'll hear Queen plus music from related bands. I also find that last.fm seems to do a pretty good job of picking related artists. On 06/06/12 15:47, Evan Reese wrote: Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. Evan - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Ok cool. So can you give me aquick breakdown on the difference between the two? Maybe its been covered before and I went too fast through my messages. Since you're a long time member of both I'd loke to know the main differences. thanks bb - Original Message - From: James Scholes ja...@jls-radio.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm There seems to be some confusion here about Last.fm features and which ones can and cannot be used with Winamp, so let me try and clear it up. Scrobbling: Scrobbling is the act of submitting the tracks you play in Winamp or the media player of your choice to Last.fm so that they show up on your profile. This data is used at the very core of Last.fm, it's what makes the service work. Submitting the songs you play on your computers or other devices is what allows the site to recommend you new artists, albums and tracks. It also provides you with quite a nice platform with which to track your listening habbits. You can scrobble with the official Last.fm Scrobbler, which last time I checked was not accessible, or by using a plug-in for your media player of choice; there is one for Winamp, foobar2000, etcetera, and you can also scrobble from within Spotify if that's your thing. Last.fm Radio: This is the portion of the Last.fm service which allows you to stream tracks from their online library. You cannot, I repeat not, stream individual tracks or albums on-demand as you can with Spotify. The radio service is designed to play either a selection of music that you like, music that Last.fm thinks you'll like, or music that your friends and people with similar tastes to you like. Without using a piece of 3rd party software as a proxy, you cannot play these radio stations in Winamp, however the playback controls on the website are accessible and the music you play in the Flash player will be scrobbled to your profile. Hope that helps, and I'll chime in again if there's anything else people don't understand about the service. I've been a long-time user of both Last.fm and Spotify, so am quite well-aquainted with them. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Help needed with last.fm
Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. Evan - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Help needed with last.fm
Yeh, that agrees with my experience with last.fm. If I want to listen to some classic rock, I might create a station for Queen, and I'll hear Queen plus music from related bands. I also find that last.fm seems to do a pretty good job of picking related artists. On 06/06/12 15:47, Evan Reese wrote: Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. Evan - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Help needed with last.fm Hello, I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of heavy metal. URL is below. http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet another page where really the only option I can see is to select and click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? Prateek To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
