Do YOU have a Last.fm account?? Because you should :-) | fiendfyre's Blog

For any of ya'll that don't know what is is and might....care, I shall proceed to tell you some propaganda of how fantastic it is  :D

Built as an open source platform, Last.fm is designed for support on all media players including iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, xBox, TiVo, mobile phones, Slim devices, Launchcast, Yahoo Music Engine and even Pandora. Listeners can link their media players to Last.fm to share songs, statistics and playlists with the Last.fm community. Last.fm’s scrobbling function pays attention to what users are listening to—not just what is listed in their library—and suggests artists, people, and concerts based on their musical preferences. You can even post charts and listening habits to your blog or MySpace and have Last.fm update them automatically. Select a chart from a variety of user-submitted styles or customize your own.

--If you don't just want to track what music you listen to already, but want to find some new stuff as well (a GREAT feature), Last.fm works in a similar way to Pandora. It has predictive software, which pays attention to what you like and dislike and plays new songs based on your selections. You can also recommend tracks to friends, add tags, tell the system you don't like a song, or simply skip ahead to the next track.

Some more sweet stats:

• 15 million unique active users per month
• 350 million times a month people tell Last.fm what tracks they listen to - in other words, Last.fm users submit 12 million daily track submissions
• 65 million different tracks in the music database
• 7 million different artists
• Over 200 countries are represented in the community with US, UK, Germany, Canada leading the pack
• Last.fm has around 150,000 artist wikis and there are around 350,000 different music tags (genres, moods of music).
• Unlike many online music networks, Last.fm connects to 30+ MP3 players – not just iTunes and iPod

So, I highly highly recommend Last.fm (www.last.fm) to anyone who is even remotely interested in or entertained by music.  And just for funsies, here are my recently played tracks (in real time!)

Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for some of this info-I did not feel like typing all this up-it took long enough as it is. :) Oh, and notice how I could make it blue to at least attempt to match the EP interface?? Neato, I know. ( haha, I had to throw something else in :P )