Comments on: iTunes Should Takeover Last.fm

By: Auto

Auto — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:47:17 +0000

thank iTunes!

By: RockReborn

RockReborn — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:21:38 +0000

I think Last.fm has far more social and friendly people thank iTunes. Better organised in my opinion, and better for promoting as new artists.

Last.FM kicks the lama's ass!!

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:23:18 +0000

@Roman: PC users don't count as real people. :)

By: Roman Gonzalez

Roman Gonzalez — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:09:49 +0000

LOL @ "I know not everyone uses iTunes (although I can?t understand why not!)" ... There is a simple reason!

Because amarok exists... hope that comes in Mac OS X soon :-)

By: Luke L

Luke L — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:34:23 +0000

I think the reason could Apple could never buy Last.fm, or more precisely why Last.fm would never let themselves be bought, is their userbase. AudioScrobbler (that's the actual music recommendation bit, they merged with Last.fm a year ago) started as a homegrown project on a few music players and only added iTunes support later, meaning that a large proportion of their users aren't on iTunes and I doubt Apple would still be willing to let others access their data.

I'm kind of the opposite you see, I use winamp exclusively as I couldn't stand iTunes, I even use it to manage my iPod with the latest release. I think what's more likely is someone created a plugin for iTunes which simply shows similar artists, rather than direct integration. And as a final point Apple now track listening data so they might be creating their own AS.