Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread Richard Claypool
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: "

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread James Scholes
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

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread Richard Claypool
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 c

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread James Scholes
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

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread Richard Claypool
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 pan

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-10 Thread James Scholes
ut 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 stat

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Brett Boyer
t;James Scholes" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 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. Scrobb

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Richard Claypool
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 b

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread James Scholes
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

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Hank Smith
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: &q

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Mike Edwards
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" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 5:44 AM Su

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Richard Claypool
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, yo

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-09 Thread Richard Claypool
ou 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" To: &q

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-06 Thread Christopher Chaltain
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

Re: Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-06 Thread Evan Reese
uot; To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 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

Help needed with last.fm

2012-06-06 Thread Dujari, Prateek
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 t

Re: last.fm desktop application.

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Great name fire.fm! Lol! -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: christopher...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: "Html-man" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:47 PM Subject: Re: last.fm

Re: last.fm desktop application.

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Hallsworth
I would use SpeakOn or the Last.FM plug-in for Foobar2000. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: christopher...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: "Jim Noseworthy" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Monday, Ma

last.fm desktop application.

2009-03-09 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Hi folks: Has anyone had any luck getting the last.fm application to work using speech? Thanks all over the place gang. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: last.fm desktop application.

2009-03-09 Thread Html-man
The desktop application is definitely not accessible, but if you use Firefox you might try fire.fm which works great. Html-man Msn: html-...@libero.it To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: Any luck with using last.fm?

2007-03-25 Thread jazzjourneys.org
Check out the 24-hour stream of t www.TheJazzy1.com and let me know what you think? Earle - Original Message - From: "Lynn Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:46 AM Subject: Any luck with using last.fm? > Has anyone successfully

Re: Any luck with using last.fm?

2007-03-25 Thread Dean Martineau
There was a post on the Fred's Head Companion regarding this service, search at http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/ Meanwhile, I've stumbled onto http://www.accuradio.com which has a multitude of channels. It uses an imbedded player, but one that is accessible. With JAWS 8, I can set th

Any luck with using last.fm?

2007-03-25 Thread Lynn Schneider
Has anyone successfully used www.last.fm to listen to music? Between this site, slacker.com and pandora.com being inaccessible, I am really starting to get discouraged. I am looking for some good streaming audio to listen to at work. For some reason, ACB Radio and Live365.com's media streams

Last.fm

2007-02-22 Thread Brandon Hicks
Hi all, I signed up for Last.FM recently, and went to download the player. The problem I found is that the install isn't accessible. I know there are blind folks out there using it, so I'd like to know how exactly you're going about it? On a related note, my mp3 player allows