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United States user receiving Last.fm subscriber notification
I am located in the United States and my Last.fm profile states this as well. I am getting a notification that I must be a subscriber in order to use the Last.fm add-on.
The recently updated Last.fm add-on states:
NOTE: LAST.FM RADIO IS NOW FOR LAST.FM SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, see Last.FM's blog post for more information.
There is a link to a page which states:
This means that from today, listeners to Last.fm Radio outside of the USA, UK and Germany will be asked to subscribe for €3.00 per month, after a 30 track free trial period. In the USA, UK and Germany, where it’s feasible to run an ad-supported radio service, there won’t be any changes. Everything else on Last.fm (scrobbling, recommendations, charts, biographies, events, videos etc.) will remain free in all countries, like it is now.
The add-on and the policy of Last.fm seem to be in conflict. I assume this is in error, but I may be missing something in fine-print located somewhere else.
The recently updated Last.fm add-on states:
NOTE: LAST.FM RADIO IS NOW FOR LAST.FM SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, see Last.FM's blog post for more information.
There is a link to a page which states:
This means that from today, listeners to Last.fm Radio outside of the USA, UK and Germany will be asked to subscribe for €3.00 per month, after a 30 track free trial period. In the USA, UK and Germany, where it’s feasible to run an ad-supported radio service, there won’t be any changes. Everything else on Last.fm (scrobbling, recommendations, charts, biographies, events, videos etc.) will remain free in all countries, like it is now.
The add-on and the policy of Last.fm seem to be in conflict. I assume this is in error, but I may be missing something in fine-print located somewhere else.
I’m amused that when something gets fixed, something else breaks.
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As hellocatfood stated, you must be a subscriber to listen to last.fm radio via third parties (external apps such as Songbird) now.
You can find more information in this topic:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
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Inappropriate?Same problem here, was listening to last.fm radio in songbird last night, then the last.fm add-on updated this morning and I get the subscribe thing.
I’m sad
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BTW Version: Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030029)
Add-on last.fm 0.4.2.1161
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Inappropriate?I'm from the UK and pretty peeved about this, this policy has been in effect for 2 months, why can't Songbird leave this check to Last.fm and not muck it up for the rest of us?
I’m disappointed
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Inappropriate?The changes to last.fm state that if you must be a subscriber to use an external client to listen to last.fm radio. Only the official client or the web based interface will allow you to listen to last.fm radio2 Comments Add a comment
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Can we have a link for that?
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http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/30/radio-... It's the second bullet point
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Inappropriate?As hellocatfood stated, you must be a subscriber to listen to last.fm radio via third parties (external apps such as Songbird) now.
You can find more information in this topic:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
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this solves the problem
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These changes are going to kill Last.fm, especially the international rules.
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Inappropriate?Looks like I misread the Last.fm post. I thought the second bullet was just clarifying that 3rd party connections for the subscription-required countries would also require a subscription to use a 3rd party connections.
Oh well...
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?LAME!!!!!!
But why can't Songbird just play the last.fm radio stations in the browser window just like Firefox does? Prolly a question for another thread.3 Comments Add a comment
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You can still do that... It just wont be integrated into the Songbird player control bar..
EDIT: err, well, ill file a bug on that so you can still play radio stations in the browser, if not a subscriber.. and NOT go through the SB interface. -
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Thank you Michael.
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Inappropriate?I also read over that part when this first came out. Looks like Last.fm just lost another user.
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Inappropriate?Weak. Totally weak. This comes after some major privacy issues earlier in the year, and I think I'm about done with Last.fm
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?The company "solution" is completely wrong. Last.fm radio worked completely fine a minute ago before I updated the add-on. The previous version of the add-on worked fine so this is definitely a BUG. Fix it please.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?@Elijah
It is not a bug. The last.fm add-on had to be updated to get along with Last.fm's new Radio API.
You can read more about 'the why' here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
The reason why it still worked before you updated is because the "old radio APIs" continue to work - but they aren't supported and have an indefinite lifespan (could stop at anytime and against last.fm's policy).
So if you want to live dangerously, you can still download the old version here and refuse to update it. But I am not suggesting you do that, as that version can go "poot" at any time, without warning, and against last.fm's policy :)1 Comment Add a comment
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The old version has already went poot.... =[
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