Last.fm to charge subscription fees

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First Pandora, now Last.fm... :|

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yeah, saw this.

http://blog.last.fm/
As soon as we’ve completed the upgrades noted above, we’ll move ahead with the transition. Thereafter, radio in the USA, UK and Germany will remain ad-supported, and radio in other countries where it’s not feasible to have an ad-supported service will be moving to a subscription service.
whilst i'm uk so not affected, its a shame for everyone else :(

are we sure its not a really elaborate april fools' joke :urff:
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Nah, was issued a couple of days ago as far as I know it.

And Spotify is péage for us as well, so nawt free and good left for us Belgians :|

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Said goodbye to last.fm a long time ago, couldn't live with their updated interface... Shame about the fees though but guess it's only rational.

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only really use it for the scrobbling and for the events

the radio is kinda useful if you have scrobbled enough to give it a good idea what you want to hear, but i've yet to find a time when i use the radio in preference to, say, my ipod or spotify

as a database of music though its pretty good, and the online player can be handy for when you want to hear what a specific track is like...

just glad that the core uk last.fm services are staying free, and that we have spotify (and my ipod ;)) 8)
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Last.fm is the way I discovered a LOT of new bands in genres I like, not something I see happening om my MP3 player.

I might pay for this, after all...

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