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Artists & bands. Spotify. Spotify. Spotify debuts enhanced radio service with unlimited skips. One of the features popular music service Spotify has lacked most has been radio. No longer. The service has just added a new Spotify Radio function with an unlimited stations and skips. Spotify has been on a roll with news lately and just a week ago it opened an API so HTML5 apps can be built by third-party developers that can take advantage of Spotify’s features. On top of this, Spotify made headlines in October for forcing users to login with Facebook and for the launches of its BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps. The new Spotify Radio, which looks much-improved all around, will be rolling out in the next few days to all of Spotify’s users. The company will now have a better footing to compete with the likes of Rdio and MOG when it comes to music discovery.

. • Unlimited stations: Choose a track, artist or genre and Spotify will instantly create a station of similar music. ShareMyPlaylists.com. Last.fm. Lyrics Muse - Lyrics for your last.fm Profile. Normalisr: Time-based charts of your last.fm music data.

Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience – Last.fm. Last.fm takes the privacy of its users very seriously and towards the end of the month we will be introducing improvements to how we handle your personal information. More details about this will be posted nearer the time. One change is that we are going to have to remove all legacy pages of the old Last.fm as these pages are read-only snapshots (like cached pages on Google or the Wayback Machine) and are no longer wired to the main user database. While we had always planned to decommission these pages eventually, we had hoped to keep them online until a suitable replacement had been built. Unfortunately, that is no longer possible, with some exceptions outlined below: JournalsPast journal entries will be ported over to the new site, with bbcode formatting. The Last.fm public API documentationWe are planning to upgrade the API soon, however in the meantime the existing API documentation will be preserved for reference along with the ability to register API keys.

Last.fm scripts » How eclectic is your style? Last.fm tool: How eclectic is your musical style? The following script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of top 5 similar artists for this top 20. The resulting is a list of artists similar to your preferred artists. As the list is larger (maximum = 100), your musical preference is more diverse. Please be patient, the script may require up to a 30 seconds to process your request.

The script needs to download and analyze your profile and your top 20 artists. Last.fm policy states that we can only make 1 request per second, and the script's worst case scenario requires 21 requests. Also check out my scripts to compare your profile with that of other users, generate your personal musical tag cloud, or generate a cloud of recommended artists for your profile!

Last.fm scripts » Recommended artists cloud. MUSE | LAST.FM Spiral by Sha Hwang. Last.fm tools and aditionals. Google unveils Android-based online music store. 17 November 2011Last updated at 00:04 Rapper Busta Rhymes attended the Google Music announcement in Los Angeles Google has launched an online music store in the US, which will allow devices running its Android software to buy, store and stream MP3 files.

EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal and 23 independent labels are providing content to create a library of 13 million songs. However, Warner Music Group has opted not to take part at this point. The service poses a challenge to Apple's dominance of the sector. It launched its iTunes store in 2003. The popularity of the iPod maker's mobile devices helped drive sales. However, a new study by the research firm Gartner suggests that more than half of all smartphones sold between July and September ran Android.

By comparison Apple's iOS handsets accounted for 15% of the market over the same period, according to the study. Social network Google is also integrating its new service with its Google+ social network. Competition Internet radio.