Last.fm: Who Else Is Listening to Who You’re Listening To?

This may not be new (it’s probably not) – I am horribly unobservant sometimes and my Internet-induced ADD just makes it worse – but I just happened to notice that now at Last.fm, you can see who else is listening to the same artist you are when you’re listening to something.  Now that’s a kinda cool little treat and one of the neater extras they’ve tossed on there in a while, in my opinion.

Some of my friends and acquaintances have moved on to using other services more actively but I still like Last.fm the best.  I had to make an emergency move to another computer yesterday (something I’d been planning for a while but wasn’t quite prepared to do it yet, unfortunately it became a necessity in a hurry), and in the process of installing Last.fm on the new one noticed a lot of cool plug-ins I hadn’t added before.

Now I’ve got virtually all my online music listening synced up together, got my playlist running in my Messenger for the first time ever now, and I also discovered the plug-ins for Napster and my MP3 player (it’s a Trekstor Vibez) – if I can ever figure out how exactly to get ‘em working, my listening history will be a lot more correct for the first time ever.  I have been put out for a while that all of these services have had iPod plug-ins forever but nothing for anything else, so this will be really cool if I can get my MP3 player listening list in here too.

Anyway, just some coolness there.  I know Last.fm has become old hat for many, but I still love the extras and the ability to publish my playlist most anywhere, plus a lot of bands these days are using it as another place to touch base with their fans and listeners.  You also can’t beat their subscription for the price – I’m not currently subscribing (but will be again eventually), but it’s dead cheap.

Sign up if you never have, it’s totally worthwhile if you’re into music at all.