For the first time in nearly four years, Last.fm users will be able to stream songs on demand after the music recommendation website announced details of a new collaboration with Spotify.
The new partnership means that you can now access Spotify's 20 million song-strong catalogue through your own Last.fm profile page – or, alternatively, its artist and album pages.
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Last.fm says "if Spotify has it, you can play it and control it" using the dedicated Spotify playbar at the bottom of the screen. You will need a Spotify (free or premium) account, however.
Once your Last.fm and Spotify accounts have been synced, you can stream songs from Spotify by pressing the play button – this will load the tracks on a Last.fm page as a Spotify playlist.
The music recommendation website says this "brings a depth... like never before and gives you a much richer listening experience" by being able to access more than 20 million songs.
Not only that, but you can also rediscover your scrobbling history – the tracks that you love, past charts or maybe even those guilty pleasures that you thought you had forgotten.
What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision will be casting its eye over the leading music streaming services currently available in our April 2014 issue – keep your eyes peeled next month!
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by Pete Hayman
