Bye bye, last.fm?

by Volker Weber

Burried in a lot of words:

These changes also mean that we are retiring our own on-demand track streaming, which we’ve run for the last two years in the US, UK, and Germany.

This would be the end of the long-lasting love affair between my Sonos and last.fm.

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Update: Matthew Ogle from Last.fm clarifies that this does not affect radio streaming. What they killed is playing a song on demand, which Sonos did not support anyway.

Comments

I don't understand their language.

So we won't be able to use last.fm on Sonos anymore. Oh, that's very sad. Listening to it right now.

;(

Mariano Kamp, 2010-04-12

The change affects single track playback only (both what we called “on demand” and “full-length preview”) — Last.fm radio still streams full-length music as it always has!

Matthew Ogle, 12 April, 16:30

Fabian Vogler, 2010-04-12

Not sure what this means: Can i still Listen to last.fm on my squeezebox? That is: my Music, neighbours, recommandations. Can i still start à Station?

Christan Just, 2010-04-12

This change doesn't affect Last.fm Radio (on iPhone, Sonos, Squeezebox, the web, and everywhere else) -- in fact it will let us focus even more on it in future. Radio streaming is quite a different beast from on-demand (single track) playback.

Matthew Ogle, 2010-04-12

last.fm has published an update - indeed the Sonos functionality seems not to be affected. They want to differentiate last.fm from Napster which is a true on-demand streaming service.

Axel Koerv, 2010-04-12

Thanks, Matthew for clarifying.

Volker Weber, 2010-04-12

I'm really happy that radio streaming is not affected. It's my favorite "playlist" for my Sonos system.

Thomas Lang, 2010-04-13

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