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		<title>YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/09/youscrobble-a-last-fm-and-youtube-mashup-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 visit Youtube can perform searches for music that they would like to listen to but the music (in form of videos) is usually unsorted and often unrelated to the artist (think cover versions for example). Last.fm on the other hand provides extensive information about artists, their albums and songs but playback is limited on the website. </p>
<p><span id="more-18329"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/youscrobble-500x392.jpg" alt="youscrobble" title="youscrobble" width="500" height="392" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18330" /></p>
<p>YouScrobble brings the best of these two worlds together. Users who visit the music service can perform a search for an artist to be presented with the complete discography of that artist. The mashup now brings Youtube into the picture by allowing playback and downloads of the music found on Youtube.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/youtube_music-499x418.jpg" alt="youtube music" title="youtube music" width="499" height="418" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18331" /></p>
<p>The service makes use of three different user roles: Guests can search for and listen to music on the website. They are also allowed to download five songs every 24 hours. Registered users (still free) get ten additional downloads per day, a better download priority, playlist support and scrobble functionality to let Last.fm know about the music. Paid users finally get unlimited downloads and the highest priority in the download queue.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youscrobble.com/browse">YouScrobble</a> offers means to discover music in a different way. Users can also take a look at the categories or popular artists instead of searching for artists, albums, bands or songs.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/lastfm-500x382.jpg" alt="lastfm" title="lastfm" width="500" height="382" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18333" /></p>
<p>Is the service legal? That&#8217;s a question that is better left to the lawyers in this case. The pay for downloads model that YouScrobble uses is certainly the most controversial aspect of the service. As Martin Bryant over at <a href="http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/11/09/youtube-lastfm-mashup-pretty-good-illegal/">Read Write Web</a> points out it is one thing to embed videos on a website that playback music and another to offer that music for download. But that&#8217;s something that the developer&#8217;s have to dell with eventually, not the users who are using the service.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-download/" title="music-download" rel="tag">music-download</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youscrobble/" title="youscrobble" rel="tag">youscrobble</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youtube/" title="youtube" rel="tag">youtube</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/11/video-crawler-a-multimedia-search-engine/" title="Video Crawler &#8211; A Multimedia Search Engine (November 11, 2008)">Video Crawler &#8211; A Multimedia Search Engine</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/12/track-album-releases-automatically/" title="Track Album Releases Automatically (November 12, 2008)">Track Album Releases Automatically</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/" title="Spotify: Music legally on demand (February 21, 2009)">Spotify: Music legally on demand</a> (27)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/03/songbird-07-rc1-released/" title="Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released (August 3, 2008)">Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released</a> (3)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/" title="Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm (January 23, 2008)">Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm</a> (4)</li>
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		<title>Automatically Download Youtube Videos (And More)</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/21/automatically-download-youtube-videos-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/firefox.png" alt="firefox" title="firefox" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13848" />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 and we already reviewed many of them in the past including popular download manager like <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/orbit-downloader/">Orbit Downloader</a> or the <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox/">Firefox</a> add-on <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/11/firefox-download-helper-extension/">Download Helper</a>.</p>
<p>Yahoo Downloader is another Firefox extension that has been designed to download videos from portals like Youtube, Yahoo or CNN but also music from sites like Pandora, Last.fm or Imeem. Probably the most interesting feature for many users is the ability to automatically download videos from these websites.</p>
<p><span id="more-14574"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/download_youtube_videos.jpg" alt="download youtube videos" title="download youtube videos" width="438" height="347" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14575" /></p>
<p>The Firefox add-on places an icon in the Firefox address bar. Some users might not like the location of the icon as it is placed on the left side of the address bar. This can however be easily changed by right-clicking blank space on that toolbar and selecting the customize option. The Yahoo Downloader icon can then be dragged and dropped to another location, toolbar or even removed completely as it is not needed for most of the functionality.</p>
<p>A left-click on the icon will display the window of the download that will list all the videos that have been discovered in open tabs in the Firefox web browser.A click on the download it button will start the download. This can be automated if automatic downloads have been enabled in the options of the Firefox add-on. This setting makes it very comfortable to download youtube videos or videos and music from the other supported audio and video portals.</p>
<p>All videos will be downloaded to a location on the local computer system which can also be changed in the options of the add-on. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13059">Yahoo Downloader</a> is a great add-on for users who download many videos or music and want to automate the process as much as possible.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/audio/" title="audio" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-youtube-videos/" title="download youtube videos" rel="tag">download youtube videos</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-manager/" title="download-manager" rel="tag">download-manager</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox-add-on/" title="firefox-add on" rel="tag">firefox-add on</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/firefox-extension/" title="firefox-extension" rel="tag">firefox-extension</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/pandora/" title="pandora" rel="tag">pandora</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/video/" title="video" rel="tag">video</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/yahoo-downloader/" title="yahoo downloader" rel="tag">yahoo downloader</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youtube/" title="youtube" rel="tag">youtube</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/11/youtube-comment-cloud-firefox-add-on/" title="Youtube Comment Cloud Firefox Add-On (April 11, 2009)">Youtube Comment Cloud Firefox Add-On</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/25/video-download-add-on-netvideohunter-for-firefox/" title="Video Download Add-On NetVideoHunter For Firefox (May 25, 2009)">Video Download Add-On NetVideoHunter For Firefox</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/sort-downloads-in-firefox/" title="Sort Downloads In Firefox (November 29, 2008)">Sort Downloads In Firefox</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/13/grab-download-music-videos-and-flash-from-websites/" title="Grab++ download music, videos and flash from websites (June 13, 2007)">Grab++ download music, videos and flash from websites</a> (9)</li>
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		<title>Automatic Media Downloads With Tubemaster++</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/30/automatic-media-downloads-with-tubemaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/30/automatic-media-downloads-with-tubemaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many media portals and other websites that offer free videos and music that users can watch and listen to. It ranges from Internet radio stations to music services such as Last.fm or Pandora to video websites which have become an excellent way of listening to music and watching videos. The music and mvoie [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/microsoft_windows.jpg" alt="microsoft windows" title="microsoft windows" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11907" />There are many media portals and other websites that offer free videos and music that users can watch and listen to. It ranges from Internet radio stations to music services such as Last.fm or Pandora to video websites which have become an excellent way of listening to music and watching videos. The music and mvoie industry have also realized that these websites can be used to promote their products. It&#8217;s a win-win for all parties. </p>
<p>There are several options when it comes to downloading music and videos from the Internet. Some websites use weak or no encryption at all which means it is possible to download the media directly from within the web browser. Other websites and services protect the media by encrypting it which makes it harder to actually download the files to the local computer system.</p>
<p><span id="more-14015"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/music_downloads-499x418.jpg" alt="music downloads" title="music downloads" width="499" height="418" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-14016" /></p>
<p>There are several software programs available that can download from most music and video portals and services. A very versatile one that is automating the process as much as possible is Tubemaster++. Tubemaster++ is a Java application that is using the packet capturing network monitor WinPcap.</p>
<p>The software program will automatically capture music and videos once the application is up and running. All the user needs to do is to visit a media site, service or software and start playing the media from there. Tubemaster recognizes the media and will display it in its interface. The software works with many services including Youtube, Last.fm, Pandora, Imeem and many more. The only restriction is that the service needs to stream the music to the computer system.</p>
<p>The music and videos can be saved in their original format or converted in the software program to common formats like avi or mp3. There are presets for some popular devices like Apple&#8217;s iPod, Blackberries, the Playstation 3 and dozens of other devices.</p>
<p>A video and mp3 search is provided in the program itself which makes it very comfortable to find specific music or videos. The search results are displayed in the program but open in the default web browser where they can be played.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/tubemaster-499x418.jpg" alt="tubemaster" title="tubemaster" width="499" height="418" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-14017" /></p>
<p><a href="http://tubemaster.free.fr/down.html">Tubemaster++</a>  (via <a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/06/30/tubemaster-plus-plus-download-media-from-media-sharing-sites-including-encrypted-sites/">Freeware Genius</a>) is a very comfortable program to download videos and music from the Internet. The program is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. It requires Java and WinPcap to run (which are provided if they are not installed).</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-music/" title="download-music" rel="tag">download-music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-videos/" title="download-videos" rel="tag">download-videos</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/imeem/" title="imeem" rel="tag">imeem</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/media-downloads/" title="media downloads" rel="tag">media downloads</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/pandora/" title="pandora" rel="tag">pandora</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/tubemaster/" title="tubemaster" rel="tag">tubemaster</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/youtube/" title="youtube" rel="tag">youtube</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/09/youscrobble-a-last-fm-and-youtube-mashup-service/" title="YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service (November 9, 2009)">YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/01/web-video-downloader-and-converter/" title="Web Video Downloader And Converter (October 1, 2008)">Web Video Downloader And Converter</a> (6)</li>
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		<title>TechCrunch: Last.fm Data Was Leaked After All To The RIAA</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/23/techcrunch-lastfm-data-was-leaked-after-all-to-the-riaa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/23/techcrunch-lastfm-data-was-leaked-after-all-to-the-riaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 16:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch ran a story back in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/techcrunch.jpg" alt="techcrunch" title="techcrunch" width="247" height="52" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13034" />TechCrunch ran a story <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-over-user-listening-data-to-the-riaa/">back</a> in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm developers and the Internet community. The Last.fm crew denied that data was handed over to the RIAA and the story cooled after.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/">Today</a>, TechCrunch ran the follow up story citing a second source and offering some clarification why the Last.fm staff members denied the leak. According to the story it was CBS, not Last.fm directly, that leaked the data dump to the RIAA, or as is suggested one of the music labels.</p>
<p><span id="more-13035"></span>CBS seems to have given in to the demand because of fear that the streaming rates could be negatively impacted if they did not.</p>
<p><!--more-->We believe CBS lied to us when they denied sending the data to the RIAA, and that they subsequently asked us to attribute the quote to Last.fm to make the statement defensible. Last.fm’s denials were strictly speaking correct, but they ignored the underlying truth of the situation, that their parent company supplied user data to the RIAA, and that the data could possibly be used in civil and criminal actions against those users. We believe that the outrage they aimed at us for reporting the story, which was materially correct, should have been aimed at CBS instead. But Last.fm never spoke publicly of the real facts of the story.<!--more--></p>
<p>If data has been leaked &#8211; and the article speaks of IP addresses and usage data &#8211; then this could very well be a privacy disaster for Last.fm and CBS.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/cbs/" title="cbs" rel="tag">cbs</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/data-leak/" title="data leak" rel="tag">data leak</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/riaa/" title="riaa" rel="tag">riaa</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/techcrunch/" title="techcrunch" rel="tag">techcrunch</a><br />

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		<title>Spotify: Music legally on demand</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here.
Spotify is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently available [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/20/global-pandora-down/">gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year</a>, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify on here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spotify.com">Spotify</a> is a service which allows users to stream many songs online free and legally. The service is ad-supported and currently available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain. The adverts are only a minor annoyance; I find there is about 2 minutes of them per hour of music. A premium service is also available, where adverts can be removed for a cost.</p>
<p>The service requires a desktop client to play the music. Their client is currently only available on OS X and Windows. Using this software, users can search for music, compile playlists and listen to online radio. The music is streamed as an Ogg Vorbis at 160kbps, so it is very high quality! It also scrobbles the music to last.fm.</p>
<p><span id="more-10687"></span>The advertising is tolerable. Generally, they last about 30-45 seconds and either advertise Spotify Premium or, currently, the Disasters Emergency Committee in the UK. Premium (ad-free) Spotify costs either 99p a day or £10 a month.</p>
<p>I am beginning to reconsider if I still have the need to download music. Most songs are available free on Spotify, with the exception of some of the newest releases on certain labels. My only problem with Spotify is that it isn&#8217;t portable, so I can&#8217;t use it on my iPod etc.</p>
<p>Spotify has a bigger collection of music than the &#8216;full tracks&#8217; available on last.fm.</p>
<p>It is currently only invitation only, but I will give the first 4 people to ask an invite each. Just leave a comment asking for one.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbysworld/3297489972/" title="Spotify by computerjoe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3297489972_e196388e67.jpg" width="500" height="308" alt="Spotify" /></a></p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3/" title="mp3" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/ogg/" title="ogg" rel="tag">ogg</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/online-radio/" title="online radio" rel="tag">online radio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/pandora/" title="pandora" rel="tag">pandora</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/spotify/" title="spotify" rel="tag">spotify</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/stream/" title="stream" rel="tag">stream</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/streaming-media/" title="streaming media" rel="tag">streaming media</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/streaming-music/" title="streaming music" rel="tag">streaming music</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/23/finetune-a-pandora-like-music-website/" title="FineTune a Pandora like Music website (December 23, 2006)">FineTune a Pandora like Music website</a> (2)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/08/stream-music-contained-in-torrent-files/" title="Stream Music contained in torrent files (January 8, 2008)">Stream Music contained in torrent files</a> (1)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/" title="Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm (January 23, 2008)">Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/10/pandora-adds-commercials/" title="Pandora adds commercials (January 10, 2007)">Pandora adds commercials</a> (3)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/15/how-to-record-internet-radio-with-aimp2/" title="How To Record Internet Radio With AIMP2 (October 15, 2008)">How To Record Internet Radio With AIMP2</a> (4)</li>
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		<title>Track Album Releases Automatically</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/12/track-album-releases-automatically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[album releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music spy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet can provide music fans with lots of information about their favorite artists including tour dates or upcoming albums. The website Muspy can help you with the latter by tracking the album releases of selected artists and sending out information whenever a new album release is announced.
The service requires registration which is a quick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internet can provide music fans with lots of information about their favorite artists including tour dates or upcoming albums. The website <a href="http://www.muspy.com">Muspy</a> can help you with the latter by tracking the album releases of selected artists and sending out information whenever a new album release is announced.</p>
<p>The service requires registration which is a quick and painless process. After signing up and in artists can be added that the user wants to track. The database of artists and releases is directly taken from MusicBrainz which ensures that most artists will be found and can be tracked.</p>
<p>The releases of all entered artists can be tracked afterwards. Notifications can be received by email or RSS news feed if that is preferred. Additionally only certain release types (albums, singles, compilations, live etc) can be monitored. </p>
<p><span id="more-8228"></span>Another interesting feature is that artists can be imported from Last.fm usernames. It does not necessarily have to be the user&#8217;s account because all that is needed for import is the username and the maximum amount of artists that should be imported.</p>
<p>No advertisement is currently send with the emails or news feeds which one would almost except from such a service. Could be that the developers have plans to add links to shops at a later stage but even that should not be a huge drawback for the service.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/album-releases/" title="album releases" rel="tag">album releases</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-spy/" title="music spy" rel="tag">music spy</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/muspy/" title="muspy" rel="tag">muspy</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/track-albums/" title="track albums" rel="tag">track albums</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/track-artists/" title="track artists" rel="tag">track artists</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/upcoming-albums/" title="upcoming albums" rel="tag">upcoming albums</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/09/youscrobble-a-last-fm-and-youtube-mashup-service/" title="YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service (November 9, 2009)">YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service</a> (6)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/" title="Spotify: Music legally on demand (February 21, 2009)">Spotify: Music legally on demand</a> (27)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/03/songbird-07-rc1-released/" title="Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released (August 3, 2008)">Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released</a> (3)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/" title="Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm (January 23, 2008)">Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/" title="Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands (May 14, 2008)">Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands</a> (3)</li>
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		<title>Download Music From Last.fm</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/download-music-from-lastfm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/download-music-from-lastfm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[download-music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last sharp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last.fm music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music-download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portable software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the last ripper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last.fm is one of the largest music websites on the Internet. Users can listen to music on the site, discover related musicians and communicate with other users. The music portal provides access to a feature called Radio which essentially makes it possible to stream music that is related to artists, tags or users.
This radio feature [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last.fm is one of the largest music websites on the Internet. Users can listen to music on the site, discover related musicians and communicate with other users. The music portal provides access to a feature called Radio which essentially makes it possible to stream music that is related to artists, tags or users.</p>
<p>This radio feature is being used by Last Sharp, an application that can be used to download music from Last.fm. Last Sharp requires the Microsoft .net framework 2.0 and an operating system that is either Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista. The application itself can be unpacked and started from any directory on the hard drive without installation. The only other requirement is a Last.fm user account to be able to tune in and download the music.</p>
<p>The default language of the interface is German but it can be set to English in the options. The options are in the lower left corner. The user can set the download directory, add a proxy, enable continuous downloads or select to normalize mp3 files with MP3 Gain.</p>
<p><span id="more-7901"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/last_fm-500x296.jpg" alt="last fm" title="last fm" width="500" height="296" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7902" /></p>
<p>The heart of the program is the Tune In section which can be used to load a 30 track playlist filtered by tag, similar artists or account specific parameters. All tracks of the playlist are selected by default and can be downloaded by right-clicking in the window and selecting the Download option from the context menu. Tracks that are not wanted can be unchecked. The Remember Downloads setting in the option is handy to prevent that already downloaded tracks are downloaded again. </p>
<p>It should be noted that the downloads have to be in order. Selecting a download from the middle will prevent downloads of tracks that are listed above it in the playlist. It is however still possible to recreate the playlist which will be populated with songs that can be downloaded. </p>
<p>One interesting parameter is continuous download. It will automatically pull the next 30 track playlist from Last.fm once the end of the last has been reached. This effectively means unlimited downloads for as long as the application is running.</p>
<p><a href="http://dev.xscheme.de/lastsharp">Last Sharp</a> is available on a German website. Just scroll down to the section called Aktuelle Version and click on the Download link which leads to <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/04/5-rapidshare-search-engines/">Rapidshare</a> where the application can be downloaded.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-music/" title="download-music" rel="tag">download-music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/last-sharp/" title="last sharp" rel="tag">last sharp</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm-music/" title="last.fm music" rel="tag">last.fm music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-download/" title="music-download" rel="tag">music-download</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/portable-software/" title="portable software" rel="tag">portable software</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/the-last-ripper/" title="the last ripper" rel="tag">the last ripper</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/window-software/" title="window software" rel="tag">window software</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/10/window-management-software-taekwindow/" title="Window Management Software Taekwindow (December 10, 2008)">Window Management Software Taekwindow</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/11/lastfm-music-downloader/" title="Last.fm music downloader (March 11, 2009)">Last.fm music downloader</a> (7)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/16/flickr-tools-flickr-downloadr/" title="Flickr Tools: Flickr Downloadr (March 16, 2009)">Flickr Tools: Flickr Downloadr</a> (4)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/16/download-music-from-imeem-deezer-or-jiwa/" title="Download Music From Imeem, Deezer or Jiwa (November 16, 2008)">Download Music From Imeem, Deezer or Jiwa</a> (6)</li>
</ul>

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		<title>Intelligent Music Scheduler</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/29/intelligent-music-scheduler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/29/intelligent-music-scheduler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligent music scheduler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music playlist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a music tool to create the perfect playlist then you might have found it in the application Intelligent Music Scheduler. The playlists generator works best with a properly tagged music collection because it takes the majority of information from those tags. It does however have a few aces up its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are looking for a music tool to create the perfect playlist then you might have found it in the application Intelligent Music Scheduler. The playlists generator works best with a properly tagged music collection because it takes the majority of information from those tags. It does however have a few aces up its sleeve to create compelling playlists even if the music collection is only partially tagged.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bleucanard.f2s.com/scripts/blueduck.php?Multimedia">Intelligent Music Scheduler</a> uses so called libraries to create playlists. A library contains a list of music files that the user selected for inclusion. This can be the complete music collection or only part of it. The music program analyzes the songs that are selected by the user and provides several ways to use them for playlist creation.</p>
<p>The first tab Time is defining the basic parameters of the playlist. The user can select a number for items, minutes or megabytes which define the amount of songs, playtime or size of the songs that make up the playlist. A value of 100 items would mean that the program would pick 100 songs from the library.</p>
<p><span id="more-6629"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/intelligent_music_scheduler-500x400.png" alt="intelligent music scheduler" title="intelligent music scheduler" width="500" height="400" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6630" /></p>
<p>That menu alone contains additional parameters that can be defined, for instance the time between songs and artists which means the minimum time the playlist has to play before the same song or a song of the same artist is played again.</p>
<p>The user can also pick the time between genres, lenght, year and recording time. This alone would make a pretty sophisticated playlist tool but there is more, much more. It is for example possible to play only selected genres, only albums, by rating or by music format.</p>
<p>Intelligent Music Scheduler uses an Audioscrobbler mashup that can be activated to use it for playlist generation. Audioscrobbler is the backbone of the popular music website last.fm. It also offers a Zararadio mashup which I&#8217;m not 100% about because I never used that service before.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/intelligent-music-scheduler/" title="intelligent music scheduler" rel="tag">intelligent music scheduler</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-playlist/" title="music playlist" rel="tag">music playlist</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/playlist/" title="playlist" rel="tag">playlist</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/playlist-generator/" title="playlist generator" rel="tag">playlist generator</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/playlists/" title="playlists" rel="tag">playlists</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/zararadio/" title="zararadio" rel="tag">zararadio</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/" title="Spotify: Music legally on demand (February 21, 2009)">Spotify: Music legally on demand</a> (27)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/spoolfm-a-new-online-music-player/" title="Spool.fm a new online music player (May 13, 2007)">Spool.fm a new online music player</a> (7)</li>
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		<title>Songbird 0.7 RC1 Released</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/03/songbird-07-rc1-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/03/songbird-07-rc1-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joshua</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[itunes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a &#8220;Blessed nightly build” which in my testing&#8217;s was unusable, the Songbird developers have released Songbird 0.7 Refresh Candidate 1, which I have been able try out, and have been very impressed by.
I continue to use Windows Media Player and Media Monkey for my music collection management, but I watch progress on Songbird and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following a &#8220;Blessed nightly build” which in my testing&#8217;s was unusable, the Songbird developers have released Songbird 0.7 <a href="http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/08/01/songbird-07-release-candidate-1-is-available-for-testing/">Refresh Candidate 1</a>, which I have been able try out, and have been very impressed by.</p>
<p>I continue to use Windows Media Player and Media Monkey for my music collection management, but I watch progress on Songbird and like to check out new releases as they become available.</p>
<p>I love the concept behind Songbird and I love what’s been created so far, however it still is a little lacking to become my default media player.</p>
<p>The aim however is for Songbird 1.0 to be out by December this year, with regular updates in the months leading up to then. Development seems to be on schedule and accelerating as Songbird gathers steam.</p>
<p><span id="more-5829"></span>Songbird 0.7 comes with the following changes:</p>
<p><strong>Refreshed UI:</strong> refined look and feel. Essentially an iTunes clone-style interface, however it really is a major improvement on the old ‘Rubber Ducky’ theme, although it may take a few minutes to get used to. I personally love it.<br />
<strong>New setup assistant</strong><br />
<strong>Smart playlists:</strong> Another iTunes inspired feature, but a good one at that. I nice addition to the growing Songbird feature list.<br />
<strong>Last.fm support:</strong>No longer necessary to download a separate plugin for Lastfm integration, it comes built in and scrobbles your library for you.<br />
<strong>GStreamer on all platforms:</strong>&#8220;This is our first cross platform release using GStreamer as our new media core, by default it handles all FLAC playback on Windows/Mac (or you can <a href="http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Docs/Environment_Variables/Enabling_GStreamer_in_Songbird_0.7">enable</a> GStreamer to handle more codecs)”<br />
<strong>Faster Media scanning and reading:</strong> I definitely noticed this, Songbird is handling my 8000 item library pretty smoothly now.<br />
<strong>Lower memory usage:</strong> Another welcome improvement.</p>
<p>Here is a shot of the new interface:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/songbird.png" alt="songbird" title="songbird" width="450" height="261" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5830" /></p>
<p>Incidentally Songbird has created some really simple ways for anyone to theme the program which is great news for the less technical minded people like me.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/gstreamer/" title="gstreamer" rel="tag">gstreamer</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/itunes/" title="itunes" rel="tag">itunes</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/smart-playlists/" title="smart playlists" rel="tag">smart playlists</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/songbird/" title="songbird" rel="tag">songbird</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/21/spotify-music-legally-on-demand/" title="Spotify: Music legally on demand (February 21, 2009)">Spotify: Music legally on demand</a> (27)</li>
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		<title>Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/get-new-and-upcoming-releases-of-your-favorite-bands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that&#8217;s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.soundamus.net/">Soundamus</a> (via <a href="http://www.feedmyapp.com/p/a/audio-tools-web-20-applications-sites-soundamus/4648">Feed my App</a>) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that&#8217;s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no personal data or password is required to generate the feed.</p>
<p>Well, actually it&#8217;s two feeds that are created. The first lists the upcoming releases while the second lists the releases of the previous year. I tested it with several usernames and it is working fine. It takes anywhere between 1 and 30 minutes before the feed displays the releases according to the Soundamus website although I was able to see the first items after less than a minute.</p>
<p>The feed items list information such as name of the album and release date. It also contains several links to pages that contain further information, some of them are located on Last.fm, some on the Soundamus website. There is also an option to add the date to Google Calendar and to buy the CD from a online shop.</p>
<p><span id="more-4124"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/soundamus.jpg" alt="soundamus" title="soundamus" width="450" height="349" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4125" /></p>
<p>The page of the release at the Soundamus website is surprisingly clean and lists similar artists and their releases. Again with links to all kinds of sites including Last.fm.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/album/" title="album" rel="tag">album</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/artists/" title="artists" rel="tag">artists</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-releases/" title="music releases" rel="tag">music releases</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/musicians/" title="musicians" rel="tag">musicians</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/soundamus/" title="soundamus" rel="tag">soundamus</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/upcoming-albums/" title="upcoming albums" rel="tag">upcoming albums</a><br />

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		<title>Play Full Length Music Tracks and Albums at Last.fm</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/23/play-full-length-music-tracks-and-albums-at-lastfm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last.fm is not 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.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a> is now <a href="http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music">offering</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><span id="more-2975"></span><img src='http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/last_fm_full_length_playbacks.jpg' alt='last.fm play full length tracks' /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a regular Last.fm user though and it would be nice if regular users could voice their opinion on the change.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm-audio/" title="last.fm audio" rel="tag">last.fm audio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3/" title="mp3" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-search/" title="music search" rel="tag">music search</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/stream-mp3/" title="stream mp3" rel="tag">stream mp3</a><br />

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		<title>Save Last.fm music</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/16/save-lastfm-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/16/save-lastfm-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Ripper has been released in a new version. The software can be used to save Last.fm music and requires a Last.fm username. The usability and interface has been changed a lot in this new version. The first change is probably the most important one: Users can now search and create Last.fm playlists inside the program instead of copying and pasting urls from Last.fm into The Last Ripper.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thelastripper.com/download.html">The Last Ripper</a> has been released in a new version. The software can be used to save Last.fm music and requires a Last.fm username. The usability and interface has been changed a lot in this new version. The first change is probably the most important one: Users can now search and create Last.fm playlists inside the program instead of copying and pasting urls from Last.fm into The Last Ripper.</p>
<p>The Skip song function works properly as well and you can just sit back and watch how all the songs that are played are recorded to your hard drive. Album covers and ID3v2 are appended automatically. Other updates include support for international characters and http proxies.</p>
<p>As I said before it is possible to search for songs or artists and create radio stations that can be recorded but it is also possible to use personal stations, playlists, neighbors or to paste urls that point to radio stations. Works perfectly to increase your music collection in no time.</p>
<p><span id="more-2881"></span><img src='http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/save_last_fm_music.jpg' alt='save last.fm music' /></p>
<p>The Last Ripper is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The newest version however is only available for Windows at the moment. Found the update at <a href="http://www.alterfalter.de/2008/01/15/thelastripper-ein-gutes-mitschnitt-programm-fuer-das-internet-radio-lastfm-jetzt-noch-besser/">Alter Falter</a>, a German blog.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/internet-radio/" title="internet-radio" rel="tag">internet-radio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm-save-mp3/" title="last.fm save mp3" rel="tag">last.fm save mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/save-mp3/" title="save mp3" rel="tag">save mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/save-music/" title="save music" rel="tag">save music</a><br />

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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/07/using-streamripper-to-save-internet-radio-tracks/" title="Using Streamripper to save Internet Radio tracks (April 7, 2008)">Using Streamripper to save Internet Radio tracks</a> (11)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/10/tune-in-with-tun3r/" title="Tune in with Tun3r (July 10, 2007)">Tune in with Tun3r</a> (2)</li>
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	<li><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/27/the-best-way-to-record-internet-radio-streams/" title="The best way to record Internet Radio streams (October 27, 2007)">The best way to record Internet Radio streams</a> (10)</li>
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		<title>Download free music from Last.fm</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/28/download-free-music-from-lastfm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/28/download-free-music-from-lastfm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music and Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[download-free-music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Last.fm has a free mp3 download section on their music portal ? The Weekly Free Downloads category of Last.fm lists currently 189 songs that can be downloaded to your computer without charge. All songs are available on one page sorted by popularity. You do find some popular artists among them including Snoop Dog, Sarah Connor as well as some classics from Beethoven and Bach.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that Last.fm has a free mp3 download section on their music portal ? The <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/+free/">Weekly Free Downloads</a> category of Last.fm lists currently 189 songs that can be downloaded to your computer without charge. All songs are available on one page sorted by popularity. You do find some popular artists among them including Snoop Dog, Sarah Connor as well as some classics from Beethoven and Bach.</p>
<p>A download starts when you click on the Free link next to the artists name and song title. It is possible to listen to the songs before you start the download by clicking on the mp3 link in that row. The songs can be downloaded by visitors and users alike, no registration is needed for this.</p>
<p>One thing that bothers me a little bit is that the songs cannot be sorted by genre. I did however find a link on <a href="http://liquidparallax.com/2007/11/28/free-mp3-lastfm-fix/">Liquid Parallax</a> that pointed to a website where Last.fm users where <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/meyde/journal/2007/07/21/480651/?page=2">categorizing</a> the free mp3 downloads. Just click on one of the genres in the tagcloud which will load a new site where all artists of that genre that offer free mp3 downloads are listed.</p>
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	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-free-music/" title="download-free-music" rel="tag">download-free-music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a><br />

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		<title>Play Last.fm Radio Streams in your Music Player</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/22/play-lastfm-radio-streams-in-your-music-player/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/22/play-lastfm-radio-streams-in-your-music-player/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last.fm does not offer an obvious option to play music streams in an external music player. It is however possible to obtain the stream url for several radio streams from last.fm and use them in your favorite music player. This is also an excellent opportunity to record those songs using that player. I do recommend XMPlay for this.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last.fm does not offer an obvious option to play music streams in an external music player. It is however possible to obtain the stream url for several radio streams from last.fm and use them in your favorite music player. This is also an excellent opportunity to record those songs using that player. I do recommend XMPlay for this.</p>
<p>You need to do the following to obtain the stream information: The first step would be to compute the MD5 sum of your password. You can do that at rednoize for example. Once you got that information you copy and paste the following url into your browser, edit the two variables username and password and hit enter. (one line of course)</p>
<p>http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/handshake.php?version=1.1.1&#038;<br />
platform=linux&#038;username=<yourlastfmusername><br />
&#038;passwordmd5=<yourmd5sum>&#038;debug=0&#038;partner=</p>
<p><span id="more-2035"></span>Replace <yourlastfmusername> with the username and <yourmd5sum> with the md5 sum of your password that you got from rednoize. </p>
<p>The important part of the few lines of text that appear is the one beginning with session=</p>
<p>Remember that part and go to the last.fm homepage. What you need to do know is to seek for something that you want to listen to. We need to create a last.fm:// url that we need later to tune in. Some examples:</p>
<p>lastfm://artist/<artistname><br />
lastfm://artist/<artistname>/similarartists<br />
lastfm://globaltags/<Tag><br />
lastfm://user/username</p>
<p>You can basically just add an artistname, tag or username to that url. To tune in we need to open another url that looks like this:</p>
<p>http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=<SessionID>&#038;<br />
url=<Last.fm URL>&#038;debug=0&#8243;</p>
<p>The SessionID is the one that you got from the first url while the last.fm URL is the one that you got from the above examples. A valid one would look like this:</p>
<p>http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=<SessionID>&#038;<br />
url=lastfm://artist/Bridge+to+Solace&#038;debug=0</p>
<p>If the response is ok the text in the browser will say so otherwise it will say failed.</p>
<p>Open your favorite music player and open the url http://87.117.229.85:80/last.mp3?Session=<SessionID> to tune in. It should load and play fine if the response from the browser was ok.</p>
<p>To sum it up again:</p>
<p>1. Go to Rednoize and look up your mp5 sum of your password<br />
2. Open http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/handshake.php?version=1.1.1&#038;<br />
platform=linux&#038;username=<yourlastfmusername>&#038;<br />
passwordmd5=<yourmd5sum>&#038;debug=0&#038;partner= and replace the username and md5sum with the correct values<br />
3. Create a last.fm:// url<br />
4. Open http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=<SessionID>&#038;<br />
url=<Last.fm URL>&#038;debug=0<br />
5. If the response is ok load the stream url from the first browser response in your music player.</p>
<p>Read More:</p>
<p><a href="http://md5.rednoize.com/">Rednoize</a><br />
via <a href="http://gabistapler.de/blog/index.php?/archives/268-Play-last.fm-streams-without-the-player.html">Gabistapler.de</a></p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm-hack/" title="last.fm hack" rel="tag">last.fm hack</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/online-radio/" title="online radio" rel="tag">online radio</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/play-lastfm-in-winamp/" title="play last.fm in winamp" rel="tag">play last.fm in winamp</a><br />

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		<title>Download Music from Myspace Mog Imeem Last.fm..</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/14/download-music-from-myspace-mog-imeem-lastfm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Music Zilla is a great software - besides it silly name - that lets you download music from popular social music websites such as Mog, Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, Myspace, iJigg, Radio.blog.club and many others that have not been tested yet. The simplicity makes it a great software, there is no need to be an expert anymore and look in the html source code to get some details that you need in order to download a song from myspace.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free Music Zilla is a great software &#8211; besides it silly name &#8211; that lets you download music from popular social music websites such as Mog, Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, Myspace, iJigg, Radio.blog.club and many others that have not been tested yet. The simplicity makes it a great software, there is no need to be an expert anymore and look in the html source code to get some details that you need in order to download a song from myspace.</p>
<p>All you need is to start Free Music Zilla and play a song on MySpace or any of the other mentioned social music websites. The software will automatically recognize that a song is played and grab all the details needed automatically from the stream. All you need to do is to mark the file and click on download.</p>
<p>Let me walk you through an example on Myspace.</p>
<p><span id="more-1997"></span><strong>Download Songs from Myspace:</strong></p>
<p>Start Free Music Zilla and open your favorite browser and point it to myspace.com. Once there open a bands homepage and play one of the songs in the Myspace music player. Bring Free Music Zilla back to the front and notice that the mp3 that is currently playing on the Myspace website is listed there. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/files/screens/2007/09/myspace-mp3-download.jpg" alt="myspace mp3 download" /></p>
<p>Just check the box in front of that mp3 and click on download. The default download location for mp3 that you download is c:\download, you might want to change that in the options.</p>
<p>You notice several other values in the listing. The filename has to be changed manually unfortunately because Myspace is using that random mp3 name script to avoid direct links to their mp3 songs. The Leech Timeout displays the time that you have to start the mp3 download. You need to play the mp3 again on Myspace if you did not make it in that time.</p>
<p>The Myspace mp3 downloads were incredibly fast. I hit the download button and it said completed almost immediately. Not sure how fast it is on slower connections though. The music needs to be playing during the download, make sure it is because the download will fail otherwise.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion:</strong></p>
<p>Free Music Zilla offers the easiest way to download mp3 from Myspace and other social music sites. If I could correct one thing I would uncheck all mp3 files that I already downloaded automatically but this is only a minor issue. </p>
<p>It has a major limitation though. This version allows the user to download ten mp3 per day which is simply not enough. The Orbit Downloader team which is also developing Free Music Zilla will soon implement a way to download mp3 from within their free client supposedly without limitations.</p>
<p><strong>Read More:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freemusiczilla.com/">Free Music Zilla</a></p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/download-mp3-myspace/" title="download mp3 myspace" rel="tag">download mp3 myspace</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/imeem/" title="imeem" rel="tag">imeem</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mog/" title="mog" rel="tag">mog</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/mp3/" title="mp3" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music/" title="music" rel="tag">music</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/songs/" title="songs" rel="tag">songs</a><br />

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		<title>Soundpedia Music Community</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/25/soundpedia-music-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read about Soundpedia at Techcrunch for the first time and was pleasantly surprised about the functionality and look of Soundpedia. What I really like about it is that you can listen to complete albums using their music flash player. You can either search for artists or albums using the site search or browse artists and albums by selecting a genre from the sidebar.

The site search and browsing the genres is currently the only way to be able to find and listen to all artists that are hosted on Soundpedia. The method to browse the albums and artists reveals that only a few of them are listed currently. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read about Soundpedia at <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/25/soundpedia-a-decent-pandora-substitute-for-the-rest-of-us/" target="_blank">Techcrunch</a> for the first time and was pleasantly surprised about the functionality and look of Soundpedia. What I really like about it is that you can listen to complete albums using their music flash player. You can either search for artists or albums using the site search or browse artists and albums by selecting a genre from the sidebar.</p>
<p>The site search and browsing the genres is currently the only way to be able to find and listen to all artists that are hosted on Soundpedia. The method to browse the albums and artists reveals that only a few of them are listed currently. </p>
<p><span id="more-1697"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/files/screens/2007/06/soundpedia.jpg" align="left" alt="soundpedia" />A really nice feature is that you can create your own playlists by searching for songs and adding them to it. You do need to be registered to be able to do that though.</p>
<p>It is also possible to listen to playlists from other users which is a great way to find new songs. Another way would be to click on the newest albums of a genre, related albums when you view a album and related playlists.</p>
<p>This is an excellent way to create playlists from songs that you like even if you do not own the songs. I can&#8217;t say that it is really better than Last.fm but it is a great alternative to it.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-community/" title="music community" rel="tag">music community</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/soundpedia/" title="soundpedia" rel="tag">soundpedia</a><br />

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		<title>Spool.fm a new online music player</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/spoolfm-a-new-online-music-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 10:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a online music player that is finding a lot of artists you might want to take a look at Spool.fm. You may search for and listen to songs even without registration which is a really nice feature. Registration adds more functionality like playlists for instance that can be saved. The Web 2.0 interface is doing everything it can to make searching and using Spool.fm as comfortable as possible. A search is conducted as soon as you enter the first letter of a song title or artist name and you can drag and drop those to and from your playlist.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are looking for a online music player that is finding a lot of artists you might want to take a look at <a href="http://spool.fm/" target="_blank">Spool.fm</a>. You may search for and listen to songs even without registration which is a really nice feature. Registration adds more functionality like playlists for instance that can be saved. The Web 2.0 interface is doing everything it can to make searching and using Spool.fm as comfortable as possible. A search is conducted as soon as you enter the first letter of a song title or artist name and you can drag and drop those to and from your playlist.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/files/screens/2007/05/spoolfm.jpg" align="left" alt="spool.fm logo" />Spool.fm automatically recommends similar artists linking to a search on their own site and a biography of the artist on last.fm. Beneath the recommendations is the complete discography of the artist that is currently selected again with the ability to search for songs from that artist on spool.fm.</p>
<p><span id="more-1150"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/files/screens/2007/05/spoolfm1.jpg" alt="spool.fm music player" /></p>
<p>Once a playlist is saved you can always open it to play the songs again or create more playlists and save them as well. The music player lets you rate songs, play or stop songs, skip or loop them and play random songs. So, everything that you are used to from your local music player is available here as well.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/files/screens/2007/05/spoolfm2.jpg" alt="spool.fm music player 2" /></p>
<p>Spool.fm offers another feature that makes the service rather unique. If you want that someone listens to the current song that you are playing you can use the &#8220;Listen with a friend&#8221; tab to send them an url that leads to the song at Spool.fm.</p>
<p>There is however another possibility to listen to the same songs that a friend is listening to you. A temporary link will be generated and if someone else opens that link he will listen to the same songs that you are currently listening to. This is not limited to one person as far as I can tell.</p>

	Tags: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/lastfm/" title="last.fm" rel="tag">last.fm</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/music-player/" title="music player" rel="tag">music player</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/online-music-service/" title="online music service" rel="tag">online music service</a>, <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/spoolfm/" title="spool.fm" rel="tag">spool.fm</a><br />

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