So after trying a few things I kind of stuck with Grooveshark but also go back to Deezer and continue to use Spotify a few hours per week. For now it seems this is the way to go. The ease-of-use at Grooveshark is just better than Deezer not with everything but with making playlists. Deezer also seems to be bugged with some kind of lag or slowness when processing that. However it seems Deezer has more music available than Grooveshark, well as far as I can tell. Deezer also looks more professional and feels more legal than Grooveshark. The limits…

After trying two weeks at Deezer I had to find yet another streaming service that would also cater my friends. I must say that looking back the switch from Last.fm to another streaming-radio provider was less painful then I thought back in mid December 2012. Ofcourse there are many other listeners who have also made such a switch over the years for various reasons. So again the internet has many people looking for answers for issues related to this, and getting them. Playlists or personalized tag radio-stations made at Last.fm you would want to have at your new SRP (streaming…

I left Presto.fm aside to focus on Deezer. I knew Deezer for some time but never was really putting it to the test. Just had a look-in once or twice than get back to Last.fm or my own MP3s (and sometimes CDs). It was already nearing 15th January and I was at first convinced that Spotify would be the one to focus on but decided to have another look around. Gave Musicovery a few spins and again loved some of the simplicity and ease of use to start without an account. But again slow pageload and strange behaviour of skipping…

So she caught my eye and when I opened the website, it was love at first byte.

The dark red and grey colour-scheme is soft on the eyes, I detest websites with all that white space. Yeah, less chaos and roomy but also useless and hard on the eyes, like a bright light that's pointlessly shining in your eyes. Who knows how many Gigawatt's of energy could be saved around the world if all that white space would be toned down to darker colours or even black. Well, Presto.fm made a good impression with that.

Love the Googlesque, simplicity of…

So after the sad news hit us mid December we could just sit still and wait for "the end", like that was not a theme close to 21-12, or we could go out and see what else is out there. Streaming definitely broke through to the masses in 2012 so there was much more choice then 2007 when I stumbled upon Last.fm.

Great thing about the internet in the 10s is that there are so many reviews available online about just any subject, often in English but in countries with a high internet penetration also in the local tongue. I…

It was quite a shock, the news that broke on 15th December. I had to read it several times as I thought I had misread it. But no! For sure this was gonna effect me too.

Only weeks earlier I was very pleased with the cross-section of music Last.fm was offering me. After 2 years "work" of adding, tweaking, tagging, voting on auto-corrections, ID3 checking I was finally getting very pleased listening to My Library radio. But then came the nasty notion, that all would be wasted if Last.fm should go out of business. How was I to know that…