iPad App?

Thanks for your input, it would be great to hear other opinions too.

@BJNelson262: Are you talking about the iPod app? So basically a focus on the music and the stuff around it and not too much about the social stuff?

alexmuller said:
Very cool. Will you sell this on the App Store, or let Last.fm merge the code back, or both?
Nope, I'm not going to sell it nor putting it on the App Store at all. There is too much stuff involved with this like giving customer support to absolute morons etc.
But I will put the source into an public repository at github (not yet, but very soon) and will maintain it of course. I've chosen a very open license (MIT) which allows anyone to sell it on the App Store or do what ever he/she wants so there is a chance that the app will find its way to the App Store.

Edit: Just looked into the taste-o-meter: What an awesome thing, that will be implemented asap!

Don't worry, I'm not going to break the radio and mobile rule (btw, it would be interesting to read your definition of mobile), however, I will still implement everything needed into my ObjC API wrapper as it allows other authentication methods beside the mobile one too.
So if someone else breaks it, I can't and won't stop him.

About the officials app code, okay, didn't knew that. However, I still recommend you to read the memory management guideline, how autorelease pools and runloops work and the ownership stuff. It would give the code a huge performance benefit!

I'm really surprised it's taken this long. Pandora was on the ball right away with this thing. Maybe I'm a snob, but I hate using iPhone apps on my iPad. If there is an alternative designed for the iPad, then I'll use it. I was never a big fan of Pandora, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the only game in town. This has led to me using it on the iPhone most of the time as well.

@bearfister & @Gunch, I'm with you, as are the rest of us here at the office. We all used to use Last.FM quite frequently, (mostly on my boss' iPhone while we worked), but after I got my iPad we started using that at the office and used the Pandora app because of the nice iPad interface. That also led us all to using it on our iPhones & iPod touches as well. Was a shame because I preferred Last.FM that played music based on everything you listen to instead of just choosing one specific artist to compare or genre, but I use my iPad so much more than anything else that I just can't do it anymore.

Listen to what the Pandora CEO said happened to them after the AppStore launch. Their user base multiplied several times and they focus on that mobile market more than anything because they know that's where the world is going no. I use my laptop only at work and I almost never sit at my desktop or even use my laptop anymore. My iPhone & my iPad do the job but without a reliable iPad app, I've essentially quit using Last.FM. Both devices still Scrobble using iScrobbler in Cydia, (jailbroken), but I don't do anything else with Last.FM

last.fm needs a good ipad app desperately

The shame is that even the latest lastfm mac app I cannot scrobble my ipad connected to itunes... And today the ipad is my main music player.

biomech9000 said:
This is frustrating. Like others, I've essentially stopped using Last.FM since I bought my iPad - 10 months ago. I use Pandora and, more often, Internet Radio apps like Spark Radio and Pocket Tunes.

I barely use Last.fm anymore either. It's a real shame. This site has sooooo much potential, and the fact that they don't do anything worthwhile with their iPhone app, and NOTHING for iPad, is going to kill them in the end. I was a happy subscriber for a while there, but haven't given my money to Last.fm for so long now because it just feels like a sinking ship. There's no sign things are improving at all here... :-(

Come on already!

I too would appreciate a native iPad app.

I wanted to be able to scrobble realtime...

I hope we can get that functionality soon

Barefootpanda şöyle demiş:
biomech9000 said:
This is frustrating. Like others, I've essentially stopped using Last.FM since I bought my iPad - 10 months ago. I use Pandora and, more often, Internet Radio apps like Spark Radio and Pocket Tunes.

Sadly, I have to agree.

Sadly, I have to agree [as well]. From time to time I'll get a last.fm subscription which I barely use now, I'm mostly listening to Internet radio on the iPad and because of some advantages I'd rather not say, again, Internet radio on my PC.
You lost a whole lot of faithful users (at least where I'm from) when you switched to paid accounts for users from those countries I'm assuming you don't much care about business-wise. So at least come up with an iPad app, last.fm. Basically, use it or lose it.

Edit: Nevermind, I just realized that even if there is an app, it probably won't be available to my country so...

It's been said enough, so I won't add to the hundreds of posts demanding a native iPad app.

My only guess as to why it hasn't happened is that the license agreements are expensive and prohibitive when it comes to mobile radio, due no doubt, to bad contracts with technophobic record label executives. Seems like last.fm doesn't have a useable app because they don't want (or can't afford) the business.

I think last.fm is in a terminal decline these days; no decent iOS apps, generally poor radio (especially compared to how great it used to be), playlists not working. It's sad because it's still my favourite website out there and the first place I check when i go online. But I never bothering using any of the radios anymore. Sites like spotify are vastly superior...