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07/14/2008, 3:10pm, EDT
Monday, July 14th
Last.fm adds iPhone/iPod touch app
Music-based social networking site Last.fm has introduced a native application for iPhones and iPod touches. The program presents a simplified way of listening to personal, recommended and other radio streams on the site, as well as keeping tabs on items such as friends, charts and upcoming concerts. Items with a red dot indicate that they can be streamed; when tracks are playing, album art is displayed in the background.
Tracks can be recommended to other people through e-mail addresses on a person's Contacts list, and when browsing sites in Safari, the app will launch after clicking "lastfm://" links. The current drawback to the software is that because the iPhone 2.0 firmware does not allow background processes, launching Safari will force Last.fm to halt entirely. The app is a free 0.3MB download.
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scrobble scrobble
I want live scrobbling. C'mon Apple, help Last out! There's got to be a way. And it fits in so nicely with the other social networking-oriented apps that are out so far.