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By: Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists | GooHoo Social News

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:00:46 +0000

[...] artists royalties for every song played on its service. Since the company announced the program last January, 170,000 70,000 artists and small music labels have signed up for it and uploaded 450,000 tracks. [...]

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » レコード会社よさようなら, ネットラジオさんよろしく！ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:24 +0000

[...] 音楽のストリーミングサイトLast.fmは、どのレーベルにも所属していないアーチストたちにも、彼らの音楽を流すたびにロイヤリティを払っている。同社がこの方針に踏み切った今年の1月から今日までに、７万のアーチストや零細レーベルが契約し、45万トラックをアップロードした。 [...]

By: Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:57:59 +0000

[...] artists royalties for every song played on its service. Since the company announced the program last January, 170,000 artists and small music labels have signed up for it and uploaded 450,000 [...]

By: Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist | oscarpages

Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist | oscarpages — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:13:22 +0000

[...] sharing services are making on-demand music streaming possible. Last.fm, for instance, now lets you stream any song three times in full before reverting to its default random shuffle. For those of you who try out Reble, please [...]

By: Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist » DistrictSource.com

Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist » DistrictSource.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:07 +0000

By: Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist

Reble, Reble, I Like Your Playlist — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:56:27 +0000

By: adair

adair — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:55:29 +0000

if you like a song enough to listen to it more than 3 times why not pay for it? would you eat at your favorite restaurant day in and day out without compensating the owners? that restaurant is only going to go out of business and you will be left without your favorite meal.

songza is shit. imeem likewise. last.fm has done a commendable job by providing a legal service that actually strikes a balance between the business and consumer.

By: Adam Wexler

Adam Wexler — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:19:09 +0000

I’m actually a fan of snippets in certain situations…will those still be available? Some songs take too long to get going, and I’m trying to consume as much music variety and quality as possible. Both options can be useful!

I love how Richard Jones mentions in his blog that they are “redefining the music economy.” Good for them. Good for artists. Good for everybody involved in music. We are finally discovering how to benefit from music consumption being as good as its ever been..

As a related topic, I have begun to venture into the stock market of late and specifically stocks that I actually have a good feel for (I believe Amazon is a great buy right now..). On that note, does anybody believe CBS’s recent moves (riding on the strength of Last.FM’s apps) will lead to increased revenue/stock performance? Anybody have any clue what % of CBS’s overall revenue ties in with Last.FM?

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:50:37 +0000

It’s really good job done by Last.fm by offering full track streaming. But, I don’t like the limited part and listening to a song only three times

By: scratchiti

scratchiti — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:30:09 +0000

BigUser, the napster thing actually got MORE mention in the mainstream press for about a day. But the problem is they just didn’t know how to keep that momentum going - or how to direct people there. If you go to http://www.napster.com, it doesn’t even mention the free tracks. You have to know to go to free.napster.com, and even then it’s not clear off that bat that songs are free.

By: Naren Pingle

Naren Pingle — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:27:25 +0000

Cool !!! now I can easily download my favorites songs fully.

By: barbone

barbone — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:36:35 +0000

The search result in skreemr is not 100% accurate all the time. Sometimes its very difficult to download songs from this site. So i recommand http://www.woonz.com for searching and downloading song. It’s a complete mp3 search engine. user can listen to online or can download from this site. it’s really amazing. U guyz can give a look in to it. U will love it! woonz.com rocks!

By: Last.fm Offers Limited Full-Track Streaming and Moves Towards Subscriptions - Allofmp3 Community Forums

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:03:07 +0000

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By: VisualBlog - das VisualOrgasm-Weblog

VisualBlog - das VisualOrgasm-Weblog — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:30:47 +0000

Lieblingskind der Webszene Last.fm schaffts mal wieder in die Schlagzeilen…

As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
So stehts auf der Webseite von Last.fm. Und die Welt jauchzt auf.
Das ist eine tolle Sache, gar keine Frage. Aber das Ganze relativiert sich schon wieder, w…

By: nifty-o-matic

nifty-o-matic — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:44:42 +0000

Last.FM, Free tracks, albums streamed to your Desktop!…

Last.fm, if you haven’t heard, has recently announced that you can now stream entire tracks and entire albums for free (!) from their website! It’s legal. They’ll be paying the artists directly. So, there is no excuse not to head over…

By: BigUser

BigUser — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:22:34 +0000

I’ve used StationRipper for a while, to record Last.fm - at work now, was wondering if anyone knows if can download these new songs???

By: ZOMGPWN!

ZOMGPWN! — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:09:12 +0000

I didn’t realize that Napster had launched their quasi-free service. Why the flock didn’t that get as much press as last.fm?

By: önder

önder — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:49 +0000

thats a great news…

By: scratchiti

scratchiti — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:26:18 +0000

@15 noss, it’s live right now. It has been since about April ‘06. http://free.napster.com. I know, worst promotion ever since no one seems to know about it.

By: noss

noss — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:01:59 +0000

@scratchiti: with all the big label’s content? I don’t think so

By: scratchiti

scratchiti — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:54:16 +0000

yeah, free.napster.com has had this for a while now.

By: ZOMGPWN!

ZOMGPWN! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:32:05 +0000

I <3 the Germans. Seriously I do.

By: Adriano

Adriano — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:29:02 +0000

Great, let’s use http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php to put the song into an Ogg file and then place onto a P2P network.

By: ZOMGPWN!

ZOMGPWN! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:55:14 +0000

Cheers! to last.fm for paying indie artists directly and sharing the ad revenue pie around… to an extent.

Jeers! to the backwards thinking and shockingly stultified brains of the paleolithic weasels who still infest the Industry of Music for imposing arbitrary limits on number of plays.

It’s literally AMAZING that the Business Affairs crews are still clinging to some sort of antiquated concept that they can control how people consume music.

I’m sure you think you’re taking a ‘hard line’ in your negotiations, but you’ve got no leg to stand on anymore. Three plays or thirty or three thousand - it doesn’t matter. If we’re going to buy it we’re going to buy it, dummies!

It’s like saying “You can only open that birdcage THREE TIMES! No more!” Well, the bird’s not even in there anymore so… knock yourself out, I guess. I’m gonna just toss the cage in the dumpster out back, where it belongs.

Sic Semper Tyrannis, biz-nizzle.

By: david hyman

david hyman — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:13:21 +0000

napster has had the same offer for years now. so, good buy sound samples is somewhat of an inappropriate headline.