I stopped listening to Last.fm when it stopped making sense. The songs that would play would never fit the station I was listening to. There shouldn't be Merengue in the Techno playlist. :/

I'd go back to it if it's been updated.

I am a huge last.fm fan, although their subscription model is not too great. I subscribed for a few months because I love the site and I'm a sucker for a statistical analysis of my listening habits and wanted to support it. However, I was hoping that it would give me access to premium servers because anytime I listen to last.fm radio (personal or otherwise) it's buffering half the time. Perhaps it's gotten better, but it didn't matter whether I was on a personal or campus network, I still had stuttering issues with my streaming radio. Has it gotten better in the past few months?

Edit: Apparently not.

The more tracks you listen to, the better its recommendations get. I don't play around with them too much, but when I listen to "My Radio" or "Neighborhood Radio", it's pretty accurate as far as the music I tend to like, and definitely within the ballpark.

In fact, I didn't think Last.fm had genre stations. Are you sure you aren't thinking of Pandora?

Maybe I have less varied tastes than I figured? I'm fully willing to admit I might just not listen to it enough, because I mostly use Last.fm to track my own music listening.

Maybe it's a location thing? I've never had problems either.

On a side note, Amarok has built-in Last.fm support. I absolutely cannot wait until KDE 4.0 so I can use Amarok on my Windows pc.

I'm already on there but my issue now is that I can't get the last.fm plugin to work with Foobar2k and the custom settings I downloaded for it.

It's a shame too cause I started really listening to some different stuff recently.

I applied to join the group. As for XBMC, I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to anything other than enter my account info.

I'm guessing that it will be the same for my Zen:V Plus as well.

Great idea! I applied to join the group with the username "doogieb"

That doesn't seem to work either . I can't find a way to turn it on or configure my last.fm settings anywhere. I downloaded a pretty intricate bunch of custom stuff for foobar when I started using it, so I'm not sure what all is different anymore.

Because my iPod Nano's battery is solid, I have a tendency to all of a sudden have like sixty new scrobbled plays instantly every few days.

But I do listen a lot on my Macbook. As you can see, I've been re-listening to the best radio drama of all time.

I use the last.fm utility and it handles all the plugin stuff for me. http://www.last.fm/download/

It manages the plugins and you can use it to listen to last.fm streams. While foobar plays songs it shows wiki style info on the song, band, album art, links to buy, add to playlist, ratings, tags, and etc. Give it a try.

Most of the time I just let the last.fm app sit in the systray while I listen in foobar. You can hide the icon if it bothers you.

THERE HAVE BEEN EXECUTIONS. About 15 or so. Including our Glorious Leader, surprisingly.

I was avoiding this thread like the plague. When I built my new computer I never bothered installing the last.fm software and I didn't really care to. Well guess what? Thanks to friendly GWJ persuasion, i now have a new account. I hate everyone.

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I don't know if everyone else feels the same way, but use last.fm for different reasons than Pandora. Pandora is better for creating streaming playlists with a similar sound, last.fm is better for comparing your tastes in music, however eclectic they may be, with others and finding new music. Instead of having to approve/disapprove of every track for the site to understand your musical taste, I just listen to what I normally would and check the site every once in a while. As much as I hate the term, last.fm is also a "social networking" site.