Now You Can Scrobble Songs You Hear on YouTube to Last.fm. For all the excitement over streaming services, cloud lockers, Internet radio and newer trends like group listening, one of the biggest sources of music online is a site that was built for other purposes all together.
YouTube has become a major repository of music over the years, and its smartphone apps can easily be used as a sort of mobile jukebox. For users of the social radio and music recommendation service Last.fm, YouTube has always lived on off its own island, unable to be "scrobbled" back to the mothership. A new plugin for Google Chrome fixes that. Wait, Last.fm? Isn't that service so 2007? I've been using Last.fm for five years.
By keeping track of my listening habits, Last.fm is able to build out a comprehensive profile of my tastes and then, based on its own algorithm, recommend other artists and songs to me. With this Chrome plugin, I can include songs I stream from YouTube in my Last.fm listening history. (h/t to Google Operating System) Digitizing Music History: John Peel's 65,000 Vinyl Records to Be Put Online. When it comes to the history of modern popular music, the importance of the late radio DJ John Peel can hardly be overstated.
During his nearly 40-year tenure at the BBC, Peel welcomed hundreds of artists in the studio to record Peel Sessions, from legendary classic rock acts and Grammy winners to under-the-radar indie bands in the late 90s. When he died in 2004, Peel had himself reached legendary status. As you can imagine, he amassed quite a record collection over the years. In total, Peel owned over 25,000 vinyl LPs and 40,000 vinyl singles. Before long, we'll all be able to browse his collection on the Web, according to the BBC. The records will be scanned and digitized along with other personal notes from Peel, interviews, videos and other content. Spotify One Year Later: Is This the Future of Music? It seems like just yesterday that American music fans were desperately awaiting Spotify's arrival.
As of this week, the European all-you-can-stream subscription service has been available in the U.S. for one year. So how did it fare in its first 12 months? Is this really the future of music distribution? Spotify, which joins Rdio, MOG and Rhapsody in offering streaming music on demand, employs a business model whose long-term viability is by no means guaranteed. It will be some time before we can judge the company's prospects, but on the whole, it had a good first year. The Swedish upstart's freshman year was marked by growth, innovation and controversy.
Social-Fueled Growth Nudged the Competition Spotify's deep integration with Facebook, announced at f8, the Facebook developers' conference, last September, spurred rapid growth. The service's rapid U.S. growth didn't go unnoticed by its chief competitors, which had already been operating in the American market for some time. Paul Shapera (Mocha Lab) Subduction by Mocha Lab supported by Rhys Hawley.
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