Last.fm announced the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Go to the music category of the iTunes App store (in iTunes or on your iPhone/Touch). Find the Last.fm app and download it for free. Log in or signup to Last.fm and you’ll be presented with a fairly obvious selection of Last.fm functionality. Things with the red circle icon start streaming. You can navigate through the menus and go back with the button in the upper left.
Last.fm iPhone Demo from Toby on Vimeo.
Once you start streaming something, you’ll have access to the familiar Last.fm contextual items (love, ban, skip… tagging will be in the next version). You can also check out the artist bio, similar artists and events (particularly cool). If there are current events for the now playing artists, you can specify if you’re attending or not and go to a Google map for the event location.
There’s a lot you can do in this app, but the interface is pretty slick so hopefully it will all be pretty discoverable.
There ARE a couple caveats…
First of all this application is available in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. However you will find it for other countries soon.
Secondly, there are no background applications allowed on the iPhone/Touch. There are several implications to this, but what it mostly means is any time you click a link that loads Safari, the music will stop and you’ll have to restart the app. This means event maps, and bio links. Last.fm team is looking at alternatives, but for now that’s the breaks.
To end with a bit of icing, the app knows how to read lastfm:// links. That means if you’re browsing the Last.fm website on the iPhone and click a “play in software” link, the app will start streaming for you! It’s neat, you’ll see.
This is version 1.0, so you will expect some cool stuff in the next revisions.
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