Last FM Helps Listeners Find More Music

The internet is quickly filling up with internet radio stations broadcasting a wide variety of music to fit virtually any taste. To help users find more of the music they enjoy amidst the vast selection available, internet services like Last FM are becoming very popular.

Last.fm is essentially a music recommendation service. At their web site, listeners can download an application which tracks what they listen to and then make recommendations. The application, called the Scrobbler, is designed to helps you discover more music based on the songs you play.

According to information from Last.fm, “Scrobbling helps us tell you what songs you play most often, which songs you like the most, how much you’ve played an artist over a certain amount of time, which of your friends have similar tastes… all kinds of stuff. By focusing on the music you already play we can help you discover more music.”

Using their application, Last.FM is able to deliver personalised recommendations for every single Last.fm listener, each day. So far the company has amassed a base of over 43 billion records of user information. Using this information, the company says that they can more accurately give its listeners quality recommendations.