Some of the best web services may not be available to you if that service is limited to users from a specific region or country of the world. This is for instance the case with Pandora and many other entertainment related services. Your only option to access the service is to use a proxy server [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Internet users have lots of options when it comes to listening to music on the Internet. They can tune into Internet radio stations, visit free music repositories like Jamendo, find new and rare songs on YouTube and other music portals or visit music information portals like Last.fm to listen to music. Music downloading is often [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Seesu is a small software that combines the vast Last.fm music library and database with mp3 libraries on VKontakte and Soundcloud. At its core, Seesu is a music player with integrated mp3 download capabilities. It is available as a widget for the Opera web browser and Apple dashboard, as well as an extension and app [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Music and Video, Opera

GrooveShark and Last.fm are two of the most popular music streaming and information sites on the Internet. The free portable software GrooveWalrus utilizes the vast database of available songs of both services in its own stand-alone music player. The software is available for Windows and Linux currently, a Mac version seem to be on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you are a fan of Pandora Music and a user of Linux you know that Linux is a bit behind in the app space for this service. There are only a few possible clients and, until now, those clients simply were not options. The official Pandora client, due to flash issues, could bring your [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Music Industry, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Basic

Last.fm is one of the most popular music portals on the Internet. It offers a wealth of information about bands, musicians, concerts and everything else music related. A popular feature is the ability to play songs directly on the website. Individual songs can be played directly in the web browser. Some songs are offered as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The music streaming service Last.fm announced earlier today in a blog post that they would retire their on-demand track streaming for customers in the UK, US and Germany. On-Demand playback on Last.fm was restricted to some countries and basically allowed users from those countries to listen to full-length previews of those songs. Last.fm radio streams [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Services that make use of the vast video and audio archive that is Youtube are springing out of the ground more recently in this year. YouScrobble is the latest service that is combining Youtubes video archive with the information provided by the music service Last.fm. This combination alone proves to be very effective. Users who [...]

Categories: The Web

With the popularity of video portals like Youtube came the desire to download the videos to the local computer system to be able to watch them (again) offline or to convert them to burn them to DVD and watch them on TV. Hundreds of applications and software programs have been designed to fill that gap [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox