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
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