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.
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----- 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.
--
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