April 12 Site Update - track page beta, streaming changes

Cherrybomb66 said:
I'm in the US too and I may have been misinformed. I was sure that was going to be one of the changes. Not sure were I read it now...hmmm...I don't want to steer anyone the wrong way.

I'm mostly upset about the 30 second previews.....it just doesn't cover the kind of music I like. I like the stuff were things suddenly pop out at you and u just can't get that in 30 seconds. It's very limiting for progressive listeners for sure.

Bingo! I am heavy into progressive and there is no way, 30 seconds can tell you enough about the song.

I may be in the minority, but I would be shooting myself in the foot, if I had to sign, or book a new artist, based on 30 seconds. granted, I still need more than that, such as live footage, performances and set up times, but that costs money and I NEED those full tracks, to start the ball rolling.

Once I finally realised, how efficient LFM is/was, for being my one stop shop, I literally, giggled with glee and subscribed - 17 years on-line and I never subscribed to anything before LastFM. Not even my newspapers - I get those for free :)

DudeListen said:
[2:55:10 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: what happened?
[2:55:16 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: they banned your ass
[2:57:35 PM] ListenDude: right
[2:57:45 PM] ListenDude: you are very perceptive, I see
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[6:54:49 PM] ListenDude: don't let the bed bugs bite
[6:55:53 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: no but the othe rcreature i have in bed might bite ;)
[6:56:05 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: g-nite!

ListenDude, listen dude, that was just not relevant :(

There are so many progressive tunes that I have recieved from friends on here....that if they were 30 second previews I might have passed up. But, to hear Anitmatter's "In Stone" or Lunatic Soul's "Out on a Limb" you HAVE TO HEAR THE WHOLE TRACK to get the full impact of their awsomeness!!!!!!!!

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DudeListen said:
CrybKeeper said:
DudeListen said:
[2:55:10 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: what happened?
[2:55:16 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: they banned your ass
[2:57:35 PM] ListenDude: right
[2:57:45 PM] ListenDude: you are very perceptive, I see
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[6:54:49 PM] ListenDude: don't let the bed bugs bite
[6:55:53 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: no but the othe rcreature i have in bed might bite ;)
[6:56:05 PM] Mahyar Yaghmaei: g-nite!

ListenDude, listen dude, that was just not relevant :(

I copied and pasted the entire Skype conversation to show that I do not censor/edit.

not relevant to YOU maybe, but according to the number of PMs I am now getting, relevant to SOME.

: ) happy scrobbling!

Well then, I will PM you ;)

I have been looking it over and have to say the coding done was very clean and have found no dead links or other issues yet; so my hat is off to those who actually put it together. I once wrote code and want to acknowledge the hidden ones who make it all work. The issue of the mini previews is a valid point from some of the other comments. But I also see you can link to the artist page and hear it in full; so it is just an extra click so far and has done good. I agree on the need to have a longer play for samples just a bit longer so people can decide if it is trash or a good track that would be an excellent addition to ones library. I'm grateful for what you do offer and give you honors on that as free music sites are hard to come across for me as I can't spend the time searching for a SAFE site.

I want to continue on the topic of safe sites that are available because I'm still into computers and doing whatever needs to be done on it for the customer(I don't charge) because Microsoft ends update support for XP next month for installs that do not include the minimum required service pack 2. So if you have to low level format your hard drives because of an infection and need to reinstall and don't have an installation disc that includes S.P.2 you will need to get another copy that does. That's around $100 that for me I don't intend on spending and will go to another operating system. Need to look at greater issues and the plus minus's and I prefer safety over risk like other services that are share services. They have a bug you end up with it. Plus no issues with D.R.M. crap. A woman here in Maine was fined $30,000 per song for 3 downloads last year. Don't want to pay that either. Overall I like the site and hassle free platform you have developed. Thank you.

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SKeene1956 said:
I want to continue on the topic of safe sites that are available because I'm still into computers and doing whatever needs to be done on it for the customer(I don't charge) because Microsoft ends update support for XP next month for installs that do not include the minimum required service pack 2. So if you have to low level format your hard drives because of an infection and need to reinstall and don't have an installation disc that includes S.P.2 you will need to get another copy that does. That's around $100 that for me I don't intend on spending and will go to another operating system. Need to look at greater issues and the plus minus's and I prefer safety over risk like other services that are share services. They have a bug you end up with it. Plus no issues with D.R.M. crap. A woman here in Maine was fined $30,000 per song for 3 downloads last year. Don't want to pay that either. Overall I like the site and hassle free platform you have developed. Thank you.

@Cherrybomb:

Off-site links, to Hype Machine, Spotify and MOG. In USA, we don't get the Spotify and MOG gives you a 3 day trial for free, but after that, it is 5.00 USD a month.
No full tracks at Last.fm though, just links to other sites. Haven't really researched HypeMachine yet.


@SKeene:

I am on WinXP SP3

Also have a Win2000 Pro machine and a couple Win Vistas.

Cripes! Didn't realise, that Microsoft was ending support on XP already!?

http://decibel.net/

i like their idea. i like that i'll be able to have my songs there in the near future. that seems nice.

SKeene1956 - Spotify is supposed to be available in the US sometime this year.

Hype Machine is a blog aggregator. You don't have to go to the blogs themselves, you can listen to tracks via Hype Machine. It has a scrobbler.

off topic - dankine was right about hubris. And the there wasn't a typo in the avatar per se, but it did have "the the".

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Dankine is taking it back to more ancient languages. I think he got it correct. Some people prefer the modern version and others like the Greek translation.