Tuesday, 25 January 2005
windows-based last.fm desktop player
One of my grad students has written a (free, as in beer) Windows desktop player for last.fm music streams, called myLastFM.
Why use it?
We use last.fm to stream music all day long. Sometimes the web interface from last.fm does not refresh correcty. Usually this is not a problem… unless a song that you do not care for comes on and you can’t skip it! myLastFM prevents that from happening by giving control of the music stream to a desktop player. Using myLastFM also helps take some of the load off of the last.fm webserver. The whole community benefits from a lesser load on the site. This makes it faster for new users to signup and for existing users to login and utilize the music community features.
From the screen shots, it looks lovely (not a surprise; this is someone who consistently does high-quality work).
(So, Eric, when are you writing the Cocoa-based version for your real computer? ;) )
