There are several mashup apps that help you find new releases on Spotify based on your listening habits scrobbled to Last.fm (here’s the complete list). The newest and possibly the best yet is Spotify.fm from developer Frank Quist. Spotify.fm includes several unique features you won’t f [...more]
Archive for the ‘last.fm’ Category
My Top 10 Bands NOT on Spotify
Some of my favourite artists aren’t on Spotify – here’s who: VNV Nation – Futurepop pioneers VNV Nation have released many great albums over the past ten years or so, and their live show is particularly powerful. The Toy Dolls - England’s finest comedy punk band, th [...more]
Recent Updates to Spotify Sites
As well as Spotify adding a new label search feature, several of the community sites also made some updates recently: freshspotify has increased its tracking limit from 100 to 250 artists. There are also plans to include support for importing recommended artists and complete libraries. Follow fres [...more]
Spotify <3 Last.fm
A common theme amongst websites and bloggers is to position Spotify as a competitor to that other popular music streaming service, Last.fm. While there are some superficial similarities, the case is oversimplified since Spotify and Last.fm each provide many unique features. The more I use both, the [...more]
The Black Spotify
Sweden is home to many things: The Pirate Bay, some fantastic trance and synthpop bands, and of course Spotify. Combine these together (OK, maybe not the bands) and you get The Black Spotify: a gathering of Swedish demo scene coders and hackers determined to crack open Spotify. To date, several Spo [...more]
Lastify – Last.fm Love for Spotify
Another hack to add to the Black Spotify list, Lastify bolts onto the regular Spotify client and lets you Love, Ban, and Tag tracks back to Last.fm. This is an obvious feature missing from Spotify’s official client, but unfortunately for me this plug-in is for Apple Mac only. Although creator [...more]
Firefox Plugins
Here’s what my Firefox browser looks like on my home PC, showing four add-ons I think are essential: Foxmarks - I dithered about adding this for a few weeks but now I have it installed on my home PC, work PC, and EeePC. Foxmarks syncs and backs up your bookmarks across multiple computers, so [...more]
Spotification
For much of today I was listening to music via Spotify, the P2P-based music streamer that’s like an iTunes client for thousands of complete albums, EPs and CD singles, all delivered instantly and encoded in high-quality 160kb/s Ogg Vorbis. I’m usually a 320kb/s mp3 snob, so audio qualit [...more]
Music Streaming Services: A Comparison
I’ve been looking for the perfect music streamer ever since I got my G1 Android phone and decided that carrying a smartphone and an MP3 player into the shower was just excess baggage. I love my music: at home I have about 200GB of MP3s and a few hundred CDs (not forgetting the boxes of vinyl [...more]
