{"id":18,"date":"2006-10-18T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2006\/10\/18\/the-lastfm-player-and-radio-stations\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T12:16:02","slug":"the-lastfm-player-and-radio-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2006\/10\/18\/the-lastfm-player-and-radio-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last.fm player and radio stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you might already know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a> is an online community based on musical tastes. You have to create an account (it&#8217;s free), install a plugin on your music player and your program will send statistics of the music you play in your computer to Last.fm.<\/p>\n<p>Then you will be able to see what is the music you listen to the most, view recommendations, users with musical tastes similar to yours (called <i>neighbours<\/i>), create communities, blog, and many other things.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this, Last.fm also offers personalized online radio. Using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/tools\/downloads\/\">free player<\/a> downloadable from its website you can listen to many radio stations, including things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Music your <i>neighbours<\/i> listen to.<\/li>\n<li>Music similar to a given artist\/band.<\/li>\n<li>Music recommended to you by Last.fm<\/li>\n<li>Music tagged with a given tag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The streaming quality is good (MP3 at 128kbps) and you can skip any track, and tell the player which songs you love the most and which songs you don&#8217;t want to hear anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The player is very small and nice, and <i>it is released under the GNU GPL license<\/i> (you can access the Subversion repository too), so congratulations to the Last.fm people.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the official player, a number of other compatible third-party players are out, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o-hand.com\/~iain\/last-exit\/\">Last Exit<\/a> (GTK+) and <a href=\"http:\/\/lizer.syslinx.org\/shell-fm\/\">Shell.FM<\/a> (console). Recent versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/\">Amarok<\/a> can also play Last.fm radios.<\/p>\n<p>The official Last.fm player is available in Debian etch (testing). If you want to install it in a Debian sarge, you can use a backport. Just add <tt>'deb http:\/\/www.backports.org\/debian\/ sarge-backports main'<\/tt> to your <tt>sources.list<\/tt> and run <tt>'apt-get -t sarge-backports install lastfm'<\/tt>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you might already know, Last.fm is an online community based on musical tastes. You have to create an account (it&#8217;s free), install a plugin on your music player and your program will send statistics of the music you play in your computer to Last.fm. Then you will be able to see what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-music","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}