pippin;496119 Wrote: > Well, they don't really HOST it, they play it...
There is some odd language issue here... Hosting = storing, indexing, etc... like hosting a web site.... last.fm does this. Playing = output.. they can send you streams as either part of a recommended station, neighbor station, etc, or you can (from the website) choose to play an individual track... How on earth is that different from MySpace Music? (Except that MySpace Music does not offer the streams...) > > The difference here is the whole idea of the thing. Last.fm still acts > a bit like a radio. They stream things to you.> > > > > > > If you ask them too, yes... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On MySpace, you've got the musicians' home page and they present their > > > music. You have to explore yourself but then you don't have to care > > > about things like rights deals.> > > > > > > > And Last.fm has artist pages with tracks by that artist, a bio, > > events, videos, shoutboxes, links to journals, links to other sites > > (official home page, discographies, etc etc...) Artists that own > > their own music are invited to upload it to last.fm... same as > > MySpace > > > > I still don't see a difference except LastFM you don't have to dig > > around to find the page, and the pages are not 'official'. And 99% > > of them suck with unreadable text on noisy dark backgrounds.... > > > > It's clear you don't actually use last.fm. That's fine, but please > > at least investigate it before describing what services they > > provide. > > > > > > > > > > > > They'd obviously have to. I know they have a back-end API, no idea > > > whether you could use that for playback, too.> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A backend, undocumented, closed API is not an API... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, as I said: it's not about streaming. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That is your opinion. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
