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Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by shared4you on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:31AM (#4915781)
So, both last.fm and Pandora are unavailable in Europe (for zero price, I mean). Anybody knows alternatives ?
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by minikomi on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:38AM (#4916113)
Not very polished but I hooked the last fm API up to a YouTube search... http://fmix.heroku.com

Enter a song for similar songs, an artist for that artist's popular tracks

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by buster on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:38AM (#4915803)
Did you try spotify?

Also tehre are some other good radios/stations:

  https://ex.fm/
  http://www.earmilk.com/
  http://u2.fm/ (not sure why it's down atm?)
  http://grooveshark.com/
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by graue on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:30AM (#4916409)
> http://u2.fm/ (not sure why it's down atm?)

You might be thinking of http://2u.fm.

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by buster on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:54AM (#4916573)
oh damn.. i thought i first tried 2u.fm and it didn't work for me either.. anyway.. oops
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by riffraff on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:38AM (#4916457)
fwiw, spotify is not available in all of europe either, e.g. not in czech republic, hungary, italy, poland, portugal, greece, estonia, slovakia, slovenia, latvia etc etc .
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by k-mcgrady on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:43AM (#4916495)
Try Deezer. It is available in all the countries you listed:

http://developers.deezer.com/guidelines/countries

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by shared4you on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:52AM (#4916563)
Signup only with Facebook account. No thanks.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by lucian1900 on Thursday December 13, 2012 @12:52PM (#4916975)
That's not true. You can choose to make an account or use your Facebook one.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by shared4you on Thursday December 13, 2012 @01:15PM (#4917135)
Only FB is what I'm seeing: http://s11.postimage.org/dhgy3pnvn/deezer.png

Can't create an account with my own mail id.

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by tholmes on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:53PM (#4917702)
It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer account (there will be probably be a signup link nearby) or close the facebook box in front and click the signup link in the top right.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by shared4you on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:27AM (#4920074)
Do check the image I linked above. From my country, only FB signup is allowed. I clicked around all the buttons on their homepage, top, bottom, etc. Wikipedia seems to agree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deezer#Facebook

I guess it depends on a country-to-country basis.

EDIT: Deezer itself says only FB is the option: http://support.deezer.com/customer/portal/articles/138981-ho...

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by buster on Friday December 14, 2012 @01:10AM (#4919844)
Right, i just looked..

On the mainpage it says rightbelow the big fat FB login button "you don't have facebook? Sign up here" which opens a sign up form for deezer

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by tomjen3 on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:14PM (#4917511)
There is really only Grooveshark, all the others are crap since they assume that because you like a few songs by a particular artist then you like similar artists too -- or even other songs by that artist.

The annoying thing about that is that I tend to fall in love with a song either because its message resonates with me or because of the beat.

Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by brackin on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:45AM (#4915831)
http://www.bloom.fm are a London startup that launched last week with a killer app. iPhone only for now but their stations are really strong and the app is well designed.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by Adirael on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:26AM (#4916051)
They had a Web App before (under a different name) and also dekstop clients. The team is made of amazing people.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by hickory on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:33AM (#4916089)
I believe http://www.rdio.com/ is now available in Europe. They posted earlier this past Summer that they'd be launching across Europe "soon".
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by kingkilr on Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:44AM (#4916498)
We are available in some, but not all, European countries.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by mkel on Thursday December 13, 2012 @03:10PM (#4917794)
I just found http://www.reverbnation.com a while ago. Not sure yet what it's worth, but I will give it a try.
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by mediocregopher on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:49AM (#4915850)
Grooveshark is available in most European countries
Re:Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month by Udo on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:59AM (#4915911)
Not in Germany, courtesy of GEMA of course (what else).