Last.fm Plans Custom Music Video Channels 53
Corey writes "CNet's Crave is reporting that the popular Web 2.0 music site Last.fm is planning to launch a video-on-demand service that dynamically creates a custom video channel for users in the same way it currently does with music. Read/Write Web also cites a recent press release quoting directors at Last.fm as saying they plan to host every music video ever created. This could well turn out to be the MTV of Web 2.0."
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Maybe the music channels on TV will discover that this is NOT what most people like too see.
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TV on what planet?
Sex and Violence are the biggest sellers...
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It's a safe bet because if suddenly a channel desides to have 'only' 40% of the clips gangster/nude then they won't attract a new group but their current audience looks for a different channel which better matches their 'lifestyle' they want.
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the old MTV of web 2.0 (Score:2)
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Lastfm video mashup already exists (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.lasttv.net/ [lasttv.net]
which is pretty awesome.
Last.fm should focus on its core functions first (Score:3, Informative)
I use last.fm all the time and I love it, but not for what it is billed for. I am able to track my listening, which is cool because, dude numbers.... right? Also they have information on artists a click away from my page along with a calendar for events coming to my area. They use their database well in many ways, but they have yet to come up with a system for recommending new music that is good. Currently, it boils down to, if you like Artist A and these other 1000 people like Artist A, then you must like some of the other stuff they like. Then the bring in tags and produce some list that is bogus. Given they make money from selling CD's and getting a cut, you would think a large focus would be put on a system where people would actually find stuff they like when searching for similar sounding stuff.
As for the music videos - I do not care to much for the idea, but I see the draw for others. They have improved their site a great deal over the last few years and it shows no sign of slowing down, which is good. I just wish they would revisit the core elements of the site for a change and give us a system that works... it is, after all, what the site was meant to be about in the first place.
Check out allmusic (Score:2, Informative)
I think they are major label, too, so probably have worked out whatever licensing kinks there may be.
Point is, this is not a newsworthy item - lots of similar sites exist and have existed for a while.
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They took their site from a lightweight and very usable site to a multi-click hard-templated POS designed mainly to sell banner impressions. You used to able to go to the main page for a band and see their entire 'story' in one shot without having to click on a "read more..." link, etc. Hell, even go to a Discography page, every row in the table lights up on rollover, but there's no clear indication what's a link and what isn't. I mean half the times their cross-links to o
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As much as I appreciate Pandora's ambitions, their recommendation system is far from ideal. I can only tolerate Pandora radio when I'm in a real funk where I don't want to listen to anything in my collection, and even then, it never takes long for the database to actually offend me with its poor recommendations. The flaws come up more in some genres than others; one of my biggest gripes is that a lot of the harder music doesn't seem to be labelled and categorized by anyone who actually is a fan of hard rock
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Maybe you just don't get the core elements of the site, but it has always been a social network site based on similar music tastes. The Pandora project is an interesting idea in that it algorithmically determines music similarity (not hand coded like a poster above mentioned(?)) based on attributes such as tempo, etc. Last.fm, on the other hand, rates similarity based on what people are listening to. Meaning, Kelly Clarkson and The Killers (for example) do not have any musical attributes in common, but sure as shit the same people that listen to one, listen to the other. It breaks down with popular media because lots of different listener types will listen to the new rap/dance song, but again as someone said above, it works for things not so much in the popular culture (Ska, Screamo, Reggae, House, Funk, etc.).
The social network has been, and always will be, thier core element. Thier recommendation system is as good as the people listening to the music.
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Deja vu all over again. (Score:1)
Imeem.com (Score:2)
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