If you haven't heard of Last.fm and you love music, then your probably living under a rock. Last.fm is a social music website that allows you to specify your favorite type of music then it streams those artists and similar artist to your customized radio stations. Sometimes you'll get crappy songs and you can ban them and other times you'll find new music you love and "love" them. Using a free application called Mobbler you can stream your Last.fm stations to your E71 for when your sick of your mp3's on the memory card. Here's how the developers describe Mobbler...Mobbler, Mobile Scrobbler, is a last.fm radio player and scrobbler for Nokia S60 3rd edition smartphones. It allows you to listen to your last.fm radio stations and to scrobble tracks played using the Nokia S60 Music Player. Music player scrobbling can be done both whilst you listen, or queued offline to be submitted later.
I showed all of you this application last month, but thanks to a tip from a reader here at the blog I discovered today that Mobbler has been updated...
0.3.0 - New graphics, bug fixes, and check for updates feature
* The graphics in Mobbler have been updated with help from several Mobbler users (Still needs a Mobbler specific logo and the positions for landscape displays are not finalised)
* Some bugs fixed that were in 0.2.4 like having to enter your username in lowercase, and crashing when there was an error trying to connect
* A check for updates feature has been which will download the latest version of Mobbler through your browser if it is newer than the currently installed version
* Changed so that there is an offline and online mode instead of connecting and disconnecting. This is so Mobbler can remember that you were in online code and try to automatically connect the next time it is started. (Need to allow the user to select a default access point to get this working properly though)
I took some screenshot of Mobbler on my E71 (I'm sure someone will ask me "what theme is that"). Check them out below:
When the song is playing....
Start a new station...
How to start the station...
Ban tracks that you don't like...
Specify the ones you love...
If you've never used Last.fm before than you'll have to go there and create an account to start listening. And like always, make sure you have a data plan with your carrier.
Click here to visit the Mobbler website, or click here to download the latest application directly.
Have any of you tried this out yet? What are your thoughts on the latest version of this great music application?
