Comments on: Libre.fm – Building An Open Last.fm

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:22:15 +0000

@Baronfuming – I agree that Libre.fm has a way to go yet with development, but I think they know that. Lot’s of people are working hard on it and it’ll take time. I made many great contacts on Last.fm as well and I did value the service they offered. Like you I don’t think their redesign and purchase by CBS has helped. The original founders have left now due to disputes with the corporate bosses. It’s not the same site it was 2 years ago when it was independent. That’s a real shame

By: Baronfuming

Baronfuming — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:16:34 +0000

I have been using last.fm for over a year now, and I have found it in decline since the new layout was introduced. Much like some of the other people who have posted here, I rarely made use of the radio feature, I do not care about the state of it. I use it primarily for the scrobbling and communicating with other users about music (I have befriended quite a few warm, welcoming individuals).

However, libre.fm leaves a lot to be desired, both aesthetically and functionally. For example, I am unable to edit my profile, and I am not able to scrobble the plays on my iPod. I know the site’s still in it’s early stages, but it will take some major improvements to get me to fully and wholeheartedly make the migration to their website.

By: kmf

kmf — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:53:57 +0000

This is the way to go
Good Luck to Matt

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:10:25 +0000

@tarantula – I never found the Last.fm recommended artists that accurate personally. Hopefully Libre.fm will have a similar and maybe even better feature. I don’t have a great problem with Last.fm or the developers working there though I must say. They’re bound by what CBS their corporate masters tell them to do now. You take the money you have to do as you’re told. There are a lot of pro open source developers and good people working for the company still. Thanks for reading

By: Tarantula

Tarantula — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:01:07 +0000

It really seems like a great project and I’m already fond of it. I’m quite pissed with Last.fm’s attitude and I stopped scrobbling (aka enriching their site), after disrespecting my as a user.

The thing is that through “Last.fm Scrobbler” I had the chance to listen to similar artists, according to the one chosen, with really very high accuracy. I let the Scrobbler do its job perfectly and even hours later, the musical theme was of the exact same aesthetic. Is there any chance of having again something like that through Libre.fm?

Continue your excellent work…a new era is rising.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:48:28 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. I’ve lost track of the project a bit in the last week with other things going on, but I’ll try and test it out this week. I hear some of the developers have song reporting supported already. That’s great work, good luck to them indeed!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:17:27 +0000

I hope i can keep my username and maybe my gobbles for so far. I like it even though theres not much to do on libre.fm right now.
I hope they make good artist pages, because i want to help putting pictures on it (maybe with a vote system like on last.fm) and i’d help putting video’s of songs on it and artist info. I can’t wait woeh. And i want to be able to comment on artists, leave a shout at people and add them as friends. if those things are done, the site will grow fast i think. Id would also be nice if there was just a standardgobbler to download from libre.fm, because my friends are waiting with libre because they are too lazy to change the Host file and download another musicplayer.. HAHAHA. Sounds silly, but i bet very many people are that lazy, they just want a gobbler to download and install. GOOD LUCK all!!

By: dely

dely — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:25:39 +0000

I’m excited. I’m going to make an account as soon as possible and help build up the site =) We’ll just see, if it’s shit. I’ll leave it like i left last.fm. It’s fun, but we don’t really NEED last.fm. So i just hope libre.fm will be a succes.

By: Ed Morgan

Ed Morgan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:46:03 +0000

Free scrobbling is a great start, but I’ve found a lot of great music on Last.fm that I either haven’t listened to in years, or flat out hadn’t heard of…

I’ll support Libre.FM, but I doubt very much whether they’ll have the ability to stream like last.fm does…

Let’s just hope that they do..

By: Jackie Plage

Jackie Plage — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:42:06 +0000

Apart from the odd time that I listen to my friends radio on last.fm I hardly ever stream music, so if that feature totally disappeared from last.fm it wouldn’t phase me at all. It’s the scrobbling that keeps me there and has done for coming up to 4 years now. I don’t give my loyalty easily, especially not to websites, but I have to say last.fm is about the only one I will stand by through thick and thin.

No, they’re not anywhere near open source in the true sense, but they have been the most open minded of all the similar music network sites. Prime example being iLike, where you either use iTunes or Windows Media Player or you’re out of luck. Last.fm has always supported a huge amount of media players and across all platforms including linux, and that’s one of the things I always loved about them. I’m not overly happy about CBS buying them but I’m also realistic and realise that a service that huge needs big funding.

So unless things change very drastically, I will stay a loyal fan of last.fm. That’s not to say I won’t support libre.fm too though, I’m all for more open efforts especially when it’s tied in with music.