What else to say!

I think the redesign helps deliver that message and is an important differentiating factor between myspace — their recommendation system will help “bring” you an audience and will supplement your other activities to give you a boost of what your myspace would. Come to think of it when was the last time you discovered a great band on myspace? Normally, don’t you just automatically go there when you want to check out a particular band? Last.fm’s stressing this advantage is also shown through their radio and other widgets. They’re trying to showcase the various artists.

So cheers to last.fm for trying to fuse the myspace and pandora models. I wan’t able to upload my music to pandora because you had to send them a cd (you can’t send tracks over the web!!) with a bar code, which of course I didn’t have!

With that being said, i think the look of the redesign looks awful. I think it looked much better before, and is aesthetically BORING now!

One thing that I don’t understand though is why they havn’t integrated the two search boxes (the top one and the one in the middle).

It’s confusing having two – which one should I type in? The distinction is not clear. Have one box and deal with the type of query within the results using good UI.

But that’s a problem with last.fm – it is a big feature fest, and underneath it is two different things: a personal radio station and then a music community. They need to converge this into one seamless product.

Saying that, overall it’s an awesome site and users will happily put up with confusion to get what t hey want. And last.fm provides a lot of what people want. Just a few thoughts.

It’s not the best design, I liked the old one better, but I will get used to it.

Did I mention how awesome fast the new design is here in Germany?

Also for those that don’t know, Last.FM is not an independent company, they are owned by CBS.

What’s with the extra comma?