Last.fm Launches Native iPhone/iPod App
Posted July 14, 2008 at 4:55pm by iClarified
Last.fm has announced the launch of a Last.fm application on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Sam Steele, our iPhone development army of one, has been cranking away at a full blown Last.fm app on Apples mobile platforms for months now and the results are nothing short of insanely great.
To install Last.fm install it from AppStore on your iPhone or iPod touch or you can click here to open AppStore in iTunes.
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Log in or signup to Last.fm and youll be presented with a fairly obvious selection of Last.fm functionality. Things with the red circle icon start streaming. You can navigate through the menus and go back with the button in the upper left.
Once you start streaming something, youll have access to the familiar Last.fm contextual items (love, ban, skip tagging will be in the next version). You can also check out the artist bio, similar artists and events (particularly cool). If there are current events for the now playing artists, you can specify if youre attending or not and go to a Google map for the event location.
Theres a lot you can do in this app, but the interface is pretty slick so hopefully it will all be pretty discoverable.
There ARE a couple caveats
First of all we are initially rolling this out in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. Were looking at other locales but have to deal with licensing and a host of other issues. We assure you that were working on it.
Secondly, there are no background applications allowed on the iPhone/Touch. There are several implications to this, but what it mostly means is any time you click a link that loads Safari, the music will stop and youll have to restart the app. This means event maps, and bio links. Were looking at alternatives, but for now thats the breaks.
To end with a bit of icing, the app knows how to read lastfm:// links. That means if youre browsing the Last.fm website on the iPhone and click a play in software link, the app will start streaming for you! Its neat, youll see.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Sam Steele, our iPhone development army of one, has been cranking away at a full blown Last.fm app on Apples mobile platforms for months now and the results are nothing short of insanely great.
To install Last.fm install it from AppStore on your iPhone or iPod touch or you can click here to open AppStore in iTunes.
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Log in or signup to Last.fm and youll be presented with a fairly obvious selection of Last.fm functionality. Things with the red circle icon start streaming. You can navigate through the menus and go back with the button in the upper left.
Once you start streaming something, youll have access to the familiar Last.fm contextual items (love, ban, skip tagging will be in the next version). You can also check out the artist bio, similar artists and events (particularly cool). If there are current events for the now playing artists, you can specify if youre attending or not and go to a Google map for the event location.
Theres a lot you can do in this app, but the interface is pretty slick so hopefully it will all be pretty discoverable.
There ARE a couple caveats
First of all we are initially rolling this out in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. Were looking at other locales but have to deal with licensing and a host of other issues. We assure you that were working on it.
Secondly, there are no background applications allowed on the iPhone/Touch. There are several implications to this, but what it mostly means is any time you click a link that loads Safari, the music will stop and youll have to restart the app. This means event maps, and bio links. Were looking at alternatives, but for now thats the breaks.
To end with a bit of icing, the app knows how to read lastfm:// links. That means if youre browsing the Last.fm website on the iPhone and click a play in software link, the app will start streaming for you! Its neat, youll see.
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