Last.fm Personal Radio

Posted Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 5:00 am by 3 Comments
Last.fm Personal Radio
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Your personal radio station on your phone: Choose an artist or genre and Last.fm builds the perfect playlist just for you, fresh every time, featuring your favorites and new discoveries powered by millions of Last.fm users sharing the music they love. You can skip any song and find out about concerts, too.

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Features:

Last.fm Personal Radio Android App is loaded with many of the features of their website. You can: Listen to your radio stations and view your Profile, Search stations, get Artists’ Bios, Events and Tour information, see Similar Artists, Tags, Fans, Playlists, Favorites, and integration to Buy songs via the Amazon MP3 store app.

Gripe Alert: The app seems to crash often, and the buffer time between songs is rather long.

Usefulness:

Last.fm Personal Radio definitely enhances the music experience on Android, and even surpasses rival app iMeem. It mixes the power of its website software onto a mobile platform. It’s very useful to be able to discover new and different music tailored to your liking.

Ease of Use:

Last.fm Personal Radio is pretty easy to use and works like most media player apps for Android. Requires a login to Last.fm’s website before you can start streaming music.

Frequently Used:

Definately a frequently used app. Use it to replace your default Music Player, tired of your own MP3 library or want to discover some new music!

Interface:

The user interface is optimized for thumb/finger navigation with the Last.fm brand.

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Should you Download Last.fm? Yes! Haven’t you already downloaded it?

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3 Responses to “Last.fm Personal Radio”

  1. Jer says:

    Succinct and fair review, I use this app frequently too and rate it highly. It doesn’t crash on me often, but I agree the time between songs can vary from 4 or 5 seconds to sometimes over a minute. I expect this is due to the 3G signal strenth, but the app could perhaps make itself a buffered cache on the SD card…

  2. Sander says:

    Looks great, but unfortunately not available in Europe due to (music) licensing restrictions.

  3. Shannon says:

    All in all, I enjoy this system, but a few things the original review didn’t mention:

    PROS
    - The Scrobbler can help create more complete recommendations, because once you download the Scrobbler, any music you listen to on iTunes gets added to your playlist.

    CONS
    - Doesn’t allow users to add their own artists, albums, or songs to the database, which could hurt up-and-coming bands
    - Sometimes if you select a particular band and try to play that band’s radio, you can listen to that radio for an hour and NEVER hear a song by that artist. For example, I tried to listen to the band Peach, clicked “Play Peach Radio” and never heard a song by them.
    - It isn’t the greatest system if you’re interested in classical music.

    RECOMMENDATIONS
    - If you want to listen to similar artists to the ones you like, and you like a few specific genres, Last.fm is for you
    - If you have a wide variety of tastes, but still want recommendations, go Pandora
    - If you want to skip recommendations and just build an online, iTunes-style playlist, try Grooveshark.

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