Comments on: Pandora and Last.fm Together…sort of

By: Update on Pandora/Last.fm Mashup

Update on Pandora/Last.fm Mashup — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:41:59 +0000

[...] fans of Pandora, Last.fm or both, you’ll like this mashup by Gabe Kangas. I wrote about it last month, when it was a bit of a hack. Now, Pandora is fully supporting the effort and has even given Gabe [...]

By: Passionate Users Jumpstart Creativity

Passionate Users Jumpstart Creativity — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:27:02 +0000

[...] good example from 2006 was a user-created mashup (a hack really) of Pandora and Last.fm that was quickly embraced and supported by both companies. [...]

By: SimonH

SimonH — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:40:26 +0000

The great thing about Pandora is its spontaneity. It is designed to allow users to discover new music. If they somehow embrace social tagging of songs and artists then it will leave Last.fm in a trail of dust.

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:22:35 +0000

Last.fm has always played more music that I’m interested in than Pandora.

By: PhragMunkee.com » Blog Archive » Pandora and Last.fm Together–sort of

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:25:55 +0000

[...] Yes, I know it’s a re-post of a digg.com article, but I don’t care. This is what I have been waiting for! Even though it’s a 3rd-party site, I think it should be trustworthy. It looks like it loads Pandora’s player and information from pandora.com because it looks like it was able to read my Pandora cookie and load my Daily playlist. I would like to see it integrated into the real Pandora.com, though. If you use one or the other (or both) check out this article and read about real-ity’s Pandora fm. [...]

By: DJ Alchemi

DJ Alchemi — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:59:58 +0000

Spoofing music recommendation services and personalised radio…

Music recommendation services and personalised radio stations like Last.FM depend on tracking the behaviour and preferences of their users, and building personal profiles on the basis of this. So what……

By: JS

JS — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:54:57 +0000

I prefer Pandora for now. But I agree they could add some features. See my review:
http://newmodelweb.blogspot.com/

By: My problem

My problem — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:26:45 +0000

Is that Last.fm doesn’t have a lot of stuff that Pandora does.

I’m listening to something on Pandora right now that isn’t streamable on Last.fm. And probably won’t be, because they don’t add a lot of new albums that often.

By: New Tunes at The Flax

New Tunes at The Flax — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:11:59 +0000

[...] Pandora and Last.fm Together…sort of Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders [...]

By: Dak

Dak — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:48:14 +0000

Eric and Pandora:
I listen to Pandora (non-mashup) by going to pandora.com and clicking “minimize” which gives me a player window with no ads.

So how is this any worse than this mashup?

By: Klim

Klim — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:26:18 +0000

I don’t see any reason to be afraid of giving them your last.fm logins. Spam? Nah, this is someone trying to do good.

And last.fm isn’t just about music chatter. The fact that you can learn about the artists and music is so much more interesting than Pandora, from which it is a pain to check out the album (having to go through amazon), or the artists genre and related stuff.

By: Notable this week: Tim Schaaff, SanDisk e200, Zencast, Real-ity, MS ‘iPhone’, Stageside, iPod Volume limiter

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:03:07 +0000

[...] Real-ity allows you to submit your Pandora tunes to Last.fm: there’s the issue of trusting them with your passwords for the two services, but as a mashup idea it’s pretty clever. [...]

By: aboutthisboy

aboutthisboy — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:47:25 +0000

I’ve written a brief comparison here http://aboutthisboy.co.uk/blog.....hooked-on/ from an end-user perspective and still find I prefer Last.fm!

By: Graham English

Graham English — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:03:11 +0000

I’ve been feeding Last.fm my music habits for a couple of months and I have yet to go inside and see what they have to offer me. Maybe I should do that now

But I’m concerned about giving my Last.fm info as well. It’s a great idea and I’m pretty trusting. But the risk outweighs the benefit for me right now.

By: jason wu

jason wu — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:30:12 +0000

[...] Basically last.fm is people filter (popularity) and pandora is an algorithm (logic). What you tend to get is ’similar’ music, which is good and bad. You never step out of your own world, but you get music that you ’should’ like. Who knows, I guess thats why everybody is excited about the last.fm + pandora thing (that I haven’t even looked at). [...]

By: adin

adin — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:21:36 +0000

I’m crossing my fingers that Pandora reaches some sort of accord with gabe/real-ity, and doesn’t try any sort of shutdown.

By: Greetings from Atlanta. » links for 2006-03-30

Greetings from Atlanta. » links for 2006-03-30 — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:31:15 +0000

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By: neoMarketing.TV

neoMarketing.TV — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:26:06 +0000

SXSW, Podcasting, Pandora, Last.fm ……

[Summary] Moving from his reflections from SXSW panels Onur Kabadayi seeks the "missing pieces" of Pandora, Last.fm, and podcasting… Why podcasters are getting impatient in regards to monetization? Is there an awareness and adoption problem…

By: Live Music Musings » mid-week digital music round-up

Live Music Musings » mid-week digital music round-up — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:49:48 +0000

[...] Last.fm and Pandora are two of the emerging players in the burgeoning music recommendation/sharing market, but they work in very different ways. TechCrunch has the scoop on an app that tries to piece them together. [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:26:54 +0000

because Chris…. not everyone is a social hermit. People like to talk.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:12:07 +0000

Why does anyone want to discuss their music with fellow randoms? Who cares, just listen to the music.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:04:14 +0000

Last.Fm is neat. I’ve really tried to use Pandora but it can’t guess what I like at *all*.

Last FM also has plugins for almost anything (including HTPC systems for Linux (Freevo and MythTV).

By: Blazed

Blazed — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:59:31 +0000

I’m a big Pandora user, and a semi involved Last.FM-er. I have to say after looking over some of the comments, I think “Pandora” is much less involving than Last.FM. With Pandora, you tell it what you like, and the only intervention thereafter with the program is saying, “Yes i like this song”/”No I do not like this song” and it picks brand new music for you. Though some of the picks can be off a bit, u can skip them if theyre terrible. With Last.FM its more of like I see it a MySpace for music. You make a profile and it tracks what you are listening to and can show you other people who listen to that music, and thus you can learn about other artists in that sense, but that involves going onto the site, logging in, and looking around for new music. For this reason, I say…go PANDORA. I see no reason that Last.FM should even be connected to Pandora. One is a “standalone dynamic music player” the other is “a community of music lovers”…keep seperate and viva la PANDORA!!!!

By: oBeattie » Pandora and Last.fm Together…sort of

oBeattie » Pandora and Last.fm Together…sort of — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:57:15 +0000

[...] Source: TechCrunch [...]

By: Iain Tait

Iain Tait — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:59:08 +0000

Oh, and for what it’s worth I love both services.

Last.fm for the fact that once the widget is installed I don’t have to tell it anything really, it just sits there learning about what I listen to. Not what I say I listen to.

And Pandora’s recommendations work in a totally different way, equally good though.