Last.fm for iPhone Launches, Rocks.
Last.fm iPhone Demo from Toby on Vimeo.
I was rather effusive in my enthusiasm for the launch of intelligent music radio application Pandora on iPhone. It symbolized, more than anything, that Apple was perfectly willing to let people listen to music on the device without the company’s blessing — some of the time anyway.
Tonight, Last.fm launched its own iPhone app, and it’s a doozy. The video demo speaks for itself, but I’m quite impressed with the events integration and the detailed information. I’ve been a bigger fan of Last.fm than Pandora for some time, not least for the huge amount of information on bands that it has to offer. Additionally, the social networking features are very cool — being able to e-mail any track to a contact? Genius. It’s available through the App Store now.
Sadly, it won’t Scrobble the tracks you listen to in the main iPod application, except after a sync with iTunes, nor will it keep playing while you browse on Safari, but those are technical impediments on Apple’s part. Altogether, it’s an impressive effort. With Pandora and AOL Radio, it has officially made the iPhone superior in every way to a satellite radio — unless you care about Howard Stern. This is the true future of radio, and it’s finally on the right platform.
Via Digg.
real must-have for a better `iPod` experience
Bora Okumusoglu, on July 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Seems nice.. just “seems”, however, it crash all the time on my iPod Touch.
musyne, on July 14th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Why would you think that Howard (Hoo hoo) Stern would be the only reason for owning satellite radio?
Josh, on July 14th, 2008 at 3:03 am
[...] Woohoo. [...]
Panda-monium! » Last.fm for iPhone, on July 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Pandora vs. Last.fm
Who wins?
Church of Apple, on July 14th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“Sadly, it won’t Scrobble the tracks you listen to in the main iPod application…”
Sadly, that’s the only thing I would’ve used it for…
Hypersky75, on July 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I think it’s really unfortunate that the coolest part of MobileScrobbler, the scrobbling, was cut. At this point, I’m seriously debating whether to downgrade in order to have that functionality back. Any news on whether it will come back? Where do we place our violent dissent?
Daniel Bachhuber, on July 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am
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We can’t scrobble in realtime, since it is impossible to run background applications.
As always you can scrobble with Last.fm Desktop.
Max Howell
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Max Howell, on July 16th, 2008 at 2:37 am