Many of us are familiar with the social revolution that Orkut brought about – allowing you to share photos, video, and catch up with friends, and their friends, and your friends’ friends’ friends – online socializing. But if want to listen to and share your audio files with likeminded people, there’s no site like Last.fm. This site, unlike other online radio places, where all you can do is tune into a preferred genre, lets you listen to songs from a particular artist, album, complete with tracks, tags, and labels.

The site builds a detailed profile of your tastes by installing small plugins in your media players, and then recommends similar artists. This profile is used to customize the Web site according to your music preferences. Let’s say your playlist contains mainly hip-hop; after you install the plugins, the site reads your taste, and displays various albums in the genre. In order to show you more music that you may not have heard of, the site lists music that other people with similar tastes have liked – you can also manually recommends songs, artists, or albums. Last.fm boasts of stock of more than 1, 00,000 songs for free download. Music producers and artists are drawn here as they can promote themselves, and this translates into an ever-growing variety of music for us.

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