gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » last.fm audio http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fmhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:26:42 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/ Last.fm is now offering playback of full length music tracks and entire albums on their online music community website for users from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany with other countries to follow soon thereafter. Songs can be played for a maximum of three times before information about a soon to be coming subscription service pops up. Details about the subscription service which will will have options for unlimited playbacks are scarce at this point, it is only sure that it will cost more than the current subscription price of $2.50 monthly.

Artists get paid whenever a song is played by using revenue sharing, which means that they will be paid by a percentage of the advertising revenue based on the number of plays. Contracts with all four major labels made this improvement possible which could be a great step in the right direction.

A quick check revealed that the implementation has not been finalized yet but that you can access a lot of full length tracks already. Give it a day or two and everything will sort out. Users are a little bit confused for instance about existing playlists and embedded content.

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I’m not a regular Last.fm user though and it would be nice if regular users could voice their opinion on the change.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/feed/ 4 Save Last.fm songs with The Last Ripperhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/22/save-lastfm-songs-with-the-last-ripper/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/22/save-lastfm-songs-with-the-last-ripper/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:15:34 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/22/save-lastfm-songs-with-the-last-ripper/ I’m probably the last person on earth who is not having an Last.fm account. I never paid much attention although Last.fm was mentioned every now and then in news and in chats. The main interface reminds me of Pandora but the options and possibilities given by Last.fm exceed those of Pandora by a large margin.

The Last Ripper is a freeware audio recorder that saves Last.fm streams as mp3 music files on your hard drive. A Last.fm account is necessary to use The Last Ripper. Once installed you enter your login name and password into the software and choose one of the radio stations available.

The Last Ripper has several other features that come in quite handy, they are:

  • Recording Last.fm streams to mp3′s
  • Organize your music in directories: Artist/Album/Track/
  • Downloads coverart
  • Appends ID3v1 tags
  • Generates playlist in M3U, SMIL, PlS

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