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 pandora hands down.
Also, when getting into more obscure styles of music, say coil or the
legendary pink dots, last.fm's recommendations are way better than
pandora's. I'd not, for example, lump Depeche mode, or the Petshop boys in
at all with the Legendary Pink Dots. Last.fm pulled some related acts,
psychic tv, Nurse with Wound, etc etc, which is more a kin, also, some early
industrial like Throbbing Grissle.
Even with mainstream stuff, there are tracks off of albums that pandora does
not have.
I can't comment on spotify. Apparently, it's not accessible, and I hardly
have any money to test it right 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 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Help needed with last.fm
Brett Boyer wrote:
Ok cool. So can you give me aquick breakdown on the difference between
the two?
No problem. Spotify is purely designed and marketed as a music streaming
and
playback service. Not only can you play tracks, albums or discographies
from
their vast online library, but 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
statistics
service and social network for music lovers. As I wrote about in my last
message, you can't choose to play a full album or specific tracks
on-demand as
you can with Spotify. Last.fm's library of streamable tracks is also much
smaller, however it's database of artists, albums, songs, genres, tags and
music
events is huge and that's why it works so well. Unlike Pandora,
everything is
user-contributed, so the more songs get scrobbled and the more users use
the
service, to more data they have to work with.
Hope that helps.
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