Last.fm, bad news (well for some of us)

http://blog.last.fm/

'Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change.

In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio'

It has come to that time that we have to start paying to use Last.FM except if u are in the UK, US of A and Germany, then u are lucky

Oh well, it's only 3 euros a month...

Does that mean you have to pay to keep your account, even if you don't stream tracks on the site?

For example, I mainly use last fm as like a tracker to see what tracks I listen to the most on my ipod---hence the thing you see on the bottom of my posts.

I hope they don't charge us for using their handy scrobbling software thingy that is useful to analyse or keep track of what kinds of music you like to listen to.

Martijn wrote: http://blog.last.fm/

'Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change.

In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio'

It has come to that time that we have to start paying to use Last.FM except if u are in the UK, US of A and Germany, then u are lucky

Oh well, it's only 3 euros a month...

use spotify.com - its much better anyway...

Uninstall

Edit: Just seen that we won't have to pay.

Fuck it - uninstall anyway.

no way....

dont use the radio thing, but glad to hear not affecting us in the uk

redken wrote:

Martijn wrote: http://blog.last.fm/

'Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change.

In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio'

It has come to that time that we have to start paying to use Last.FM except if u are in the UK, US of A and Germany, then u are lucky

Oh well, it's only 3 euros a month...

use spotify.com - its much better anyway...

Isn't spotify by invite only at the moment??

If so and u have an account could u hook me up with an invitation...thanks

leather_girl wrote: Does that mean you have to pay to keep your account, even if you don't stream tracks on the site?

For example, I mainly use last fm as like a tracker to see what tracks I listen to

Me too. And also to meet new people, kinda like MySpace or something. But if they do start charging for it, I'll just stop using the site.

Martijn wrote:

redken wrote:

Martijn wrote: http://blog.last.fm/

'Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change.

In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio'

It has come to that time that we have to start paying to use Last.FM except if u are in the UK, US of A and Germany, then u are lucky

Oh well, it's only 3 euros a month...

use spotify.com - its much better anyway...

Isn't spotify by invite only at the moment??

If so and u have an account could u hook me up with an invitation...thanks

dont think so, i just downloaded the beta version and started using it. maybe you can only do that in the uk at the moment though

they havent given us any invitations :\ohwell: