Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April

Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by stuaxo on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @02:19PM (#7475244)

I guess it can only stream libre music though ?

I can't imagine how it could stream music from artists I already know..

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by davexunit on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @02:28PM (#7475319)

It is the policy of libre.fm to only host free culture music, but that doesn't mean that you (or another motivated person) could take GNU FM and start up a service that streams music that's licensed differently. Provided that you have the right to do so, of course.

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by tunesmith on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:54PM (#7476096)

Unfortunately (from the perspective of a songwriter), a lot of people will take that as wink-wink nudge-nudge. Anyway, a non-profit streaming service that is voluntarily populated only by indie artists that control their own licensing terms (in exchange for revenue share) would a good thing.

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by davexunit on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:33PM (#7476414)

What is "wink-wink nudge-nudge"? Do you think I'm promoting violating licenses?

I'm a musician, too. I meant that someone could start a GNU FM service and stream music that has been licensed legally from musicians.

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by omegant on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:03PM (#7477303)

pertinent http://youtu.be/ona-RhLfRfc

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by VLM on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:15PM (#7476276)

A perfectly legal non-wink wink nudge nudge would appear to be private-ish streaming with music from magnatune:

http://magnatune.com/info/give

So letting the whole world listen would break the agreement, but just streaming to you, your spouse, and maybe a buddy or two would be "OK" or at least well within the spirit of the agreement. Just no more than 3 other people. I'm not exactly sure why you'd stream rather than just share the file, but whatever. Maybe you have purchased gigs and gigs of music licenses and want a jukebox effect, donno.

I've purchased rights from magnatune in the distant past, and would recommend them. I like their business model and they did the deal professionally and quickly, and I've not heard anyone complain about them. Good people, basically.

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by mrmondo on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:49PM (#7476540)

Or by using subsonic - which is a pretty sexy host-it-yourself web jukebox (OSS): http://www.subsonic.org

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by mattl on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @08:52PM (#7477818)

I'd love to do more to disassociate the two.

Libre.fm is five years old now. Time for us to break the chain?

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Re:Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April by mattl on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:09PM (#7478342)

Well, for one it could possibly stream stuff in the public domain.

But yes, there is a good use case for someone creating a popular GNU FM site that plays music that's not under a free license.

Didn't Twitter just shut down their site that did just that?

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