Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music service.
It is promising to pay unsigned artists royalties every time a user streams a track to their computer.
The website has done deals with the four major record companies as well as more than 150,000 independent labels to offer access to their catalogues.
Users will be able to listen to any track - streamed rather than downloaded - up to three times.
After that period Last.fm members will be encouraged to buy the track via links to iTunes and Amazon and other download services. A share of any resulting sales, coupled with advertising, will fund the service.
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erock
Title: likes to party
Joined: Dec 21 2007
Location: Phoenix. its hot outside
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Posted:
Jan 23 2008 07:38 pm
i use last fm. I'm trying to log every song i have but im stuck in the S's.
Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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Posted:
Jan 23 2008 07:38 pm
Jew made a topic about this a while ago, but I'm too lazy to dig it up. I still have one, but I don't have the software on my PC so it hasn't scrobbled anything in around a year.
Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
Posted:
Jan 27 2008 01:54 pm
Yeah, we got all excited about it a few months ago and everybody installed it and shared links, then it just sort of petered out. I deleted it awhile ago myself.
