www.last.fm

www.last.fm

-Founded in 2002

-30 million active users-Used in 200 countries-Xbox Live

Xbox Live and Last FM

On November 17, 2009, Last.fm was fully rolled out to all Xbox Live Gold Members, after a 3 month successful trial to selected gold members via a redeemable code. The new application may be downloaded from the Xbox 360 Dashboard and is 6.48MB in size.

How it Works

Last.fm's music library contains well over 3.5 million individual audio tracks from artists on all the major commercial labels

Users are not allowed to upload copyrighted audio files but commercially available albums are regularly added by Last.fm staff

Compiling a Playlist

-Stations can be based on the user's personal profile, the user's "musical neighbors", or the tracks that the user has marked as loved when listening to any station-Groups based around common interests or geography also have radio stations if there are enough members, and tags also have radio stations if enough music has the same tags.

Music Charts

One particular feature of Last.fm is the automatic weekly generation and archiving of detailed personal music charts and statistics which are created as part of its profile building.