New music discovery on Last.fm

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
by mark
filed under Announcements
Comments: 25

Now that we’ve seen the return of full length previews for independent artists, we wanted to go a step further and build some new discovery tools to help introduce users to emerging artists offering direct-from-artist tracks, and vice versa.

After some late nights in the Last.fm MIR laboratory, we’ve come up with a dedicated direct-from-artist recommendations page on our playground, where you can play a personalised selection of full length tracks.

Check out your own recommendations:
http://playground.last.fm/demo/directrecs

Please try it out and let us know what you discover! We’re going to keep working on this functionality and building it into the rest of Last.fm, so your feedback can help us improve.

Comments

  1. Horst
    29 June, 13:02

    Too bad that none of the track links work right now :-(

    Horst – 29 June, 13:02
  2. Horst
    29 June, 13:07

    Now they work, thanks :-)

    Horst – 29 June, 13:07
  3. Tecfan
    29 June, 13:59

    I made a thread in the Playground forum.. I think it’s a better place for feedback, and it’s trackable ^^

    http://www.last.fm/group/Playground/forum/93500/_/632787

    Tecfan – 29 June, 13:59
  4. Clyde Machine
    30 June, 16:24

    Cool, I’ll look into it. I offer my own tracks for free, maybe some of my music will show up on someone’s page! :)

    Clyde Machine – 30 June, 16:24
  5. Quicksand227
    30 June, 17:38

    Great idea, thank you =)

    Quicksand227 – 30 June, 17:38
  6. alionsonny
    30 June, 18:56

    Thanks a lot!
    As an artist who is on LastFM, I appreciate this new possibility.

    Greetings
    alionsonny

    alionsonny – 30 June, 18:56
  7. Babs_05
    30 June, 21:04

    Brilliant, thanks!

    Babs_05 – 30 June, 21:04
  8. Silvia
    30 June, 21:23

    Hello

    I just got an email from scott@tweekly.fm theyre telling about changes on lastfm and also asking for donations….Is this site a lastfm partner???

    Silvia – 30 June, 21:23
  9. Martin Dittus
    30 June, 21:45

    Silvia — Tweekly.fm makes use of public Last.fm web services, but it is an entirely separate project.

    Martin Dittus – 30 June, 21:45
  10. Jacque Armijo
    30 June, 21:53

    I like it a lot, found some cool new artists. A few of the links don’t have the track on the page so it doesn’t play… so I guess just make it a little more accurate. Thanks :]

    Jacque Armijo – 30 June, 21:53
  11. Martin Dittus
    30 June, 21:54

    Jacque — can you post some examples? Thank you!

    Martin Dittus – 30 June, 21:54
  12. Anthea
    30 June, 22:46

    Loving it – would be awesome to play as a station though, a bit annoying to have to come back and hit play on each track.

    Though I guess the radio station would be most useful for subscribers :)

    Anthea – 30 June, 22:46
  13. Stephanie
    30 June, 23:41

    This is a great service for music loves looking for new, “undiscovered” bands. Will definitely be checking this out. Once again, thank you, last.fm. You guys are great.

    Stephanie – 30 June, 23:41
  14. chicken24
    1 July, 03:25

    I like it a lot, found some cool new artists. A few of the links don’t have the track on the page so it doesn’t play… so I guess just make it a little more accurate. Thanks :]

    chicken24 – 1 July, 03:25
  15. davia
    1 July, 03:30

    good artcile,i like it,thank you for your share!

    davia – 1 July, 03:30
  16. Acuvi
    1 July, 15:00

    Awesome. Thank you!!

    Acuvi – 1 July, 15:00
  17. RG
    3 July, 13:01

    This is a wonderful feature – I’ve already found several good artists I didn’t know this way. Thank you!!!

    RG – 3 July, 13:01
  18. e1i45
    5 July, 21:42

    Very nice!!

    e1i45 – 5 July, 21:42
  19. FranticManiac
    7 July, 17:11

    Loving it!

    FranticManiac – 7 July, 17:11
  20. dach
    7 July, 22:17

    It doesn’t matter, if you can’t listen to it using the iphone app. I can’t seem to get any music I want to listen to using the app. It frustrates me,I’m having to listen pandora which honestly is horrible. !!!!!! I can’t even listen to local natives that works on your web client but not on the iphone.

    dach – 7 July, 22:17
  21. johnT McNeill
    7 July, 22:24

    Thanks! That’s a good step in the right direction. I used to do more exchanges and recommendations with other people, but now we often can’t listen to the whole track without first adding it to a playlist or finding some other work-around.

    People using different browsers get different full plays. That is confusing, but thanks for working to improve that scenario.

    Sure miss the good ‘ol days before someone decided to mess things up- but keep on adding things— maybe some day we’ll get close to what we had before.

    I don’t expect to get to listen to every tune imaginable on demand as often as I would like- for $3 a month.

    It still beats commercial radio- by a long shot.

    johnT McNeill – 7 July, 22:24
  22. daniel
    12 July, 15:59

    Uff…. Excelent!!! Thank you

    daniel – 12 July, 15:59
  23. Shawn @ McConnell Group
    19 July, 19:54

    This is a great addition, This will make recommending tracks a lot easier

    Shawn @ McConnell Group – 19 July, 19:54
  24. coach outlet
    23 July, 06:49

    It still beats commercial radio- by a long shot.

    coach outlet – 23 July, 06:49
  25. Young D.C.
    24 July, 12:14

    Check out my new album its really good n im not juss sayin that cuz its my work http://tweetmysong.com/obtcef

    Young D.C. – 24 July, 12:14

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