The site name takes advantage of a domain hack using. Last.fm was founded in 2002 by Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker and Thomas Willomitzer, all of them from Germany or Austria, as an Internet radio station and music community site, using similar music profiles to generate dynamic playlists. Audioscrobbler was limited to keeping track of which songs its users played on a registered computer, which allowed for charting and collaborative filtering.Īudioscrobbler and Last.fm (2002–2006) Jones developed the first plugins, and then opened an API to the community, after which many music players on different operating system platforms were supported. Audioscrobbler began as a computer science project of Richard Jones when he attended the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science in the United Kingdom, with the term scrobbling defined as the finding, processing, and distribution of information involving people, music, and other data. The current Last.fm website was developed from two separate sources, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, which were merged in 2005. įelix Miller, one of the Last.fm founders
The ability to access the large catalogue of music stored on the site was later removed entirely, replaced by links to YouTube and Spotify where available. The site formerly offered a radio streaming service, which was discontinued on 28 April 2014. On, it was acquired by CBS Corporation via its streaming division CBS Interactive, today a part of Paramount Global, for £140 million (US$280 million). The data is then displayed on the user's profile page and compiled to create reference pages for individual artists. This information is transferred ("scrobbled") to Last.fm's database either via the music player (including, among others, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, MusicBee, SoundCloud, and Anghami) or via a plug-in installed into the user's music player.
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Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. Last.fm is a music website founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Online music database, music recommendation, events, statistics, social networking serviceįelix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker, Thomas Willomitzer, Richard Jones
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