Last.fm Goodies

Last.fm keeps revealing new or previously undiscovered cool features. Here are two I’ve noticed recently:

If view your own or a user’s currently playing tracks, and one of these happens to be available on the free downloads list (of which there are many more than I originally thought), it will be indicated right in the stream listing.

Free downloads on last.fm

Josh Ritter’s “Wolves” is, I should add, a fantastic track, from one of my favourite albums from last year.

A second excellent feature allows you to indicate a gig you’ve been to or are going to, so you can find other last.fm users who are doing the same. This is no doubt a great way of finding users local to you who you share similar tastes to, but is interesting even if you just want to poke around their listening habits.

I’m sure with yesterday’s $280m/£140m buyout, many more great things will be in the pipeline.

May 31st, 2007 | Music • The Web |

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