No More Track Embedding?

I was about to ask the same thing. Making tracks embeddable was a very good motivation for uploading to last.fm.

I suppose not every artists wants people embedding their music any and everywhere, but it would be great for those of us that do to have the option... a little "make track embeddable" tick box somewhere in the music manager would be very useful.

Additionally: going to music manager > manage > playlists and trying to embed any of our playlists, I find myself on the familiar page where I can customise the widget etc. BUT: as content it shows my personal recently played tracks instead of the label playlist I just chose to embed!?
Luckily the old previously embedded playlists work fine. We use those on many places to preview our releases and drive people to last.fm. Obviously we consider this function very important! Hoping the embedding problem will be fixed asap...

Thanks for the link, I guess that has indeed something to do with this.
I hope there'll be a way to embed label/band playlists in the future... In the meantime we'll have to look for other options, it seems. :-(

Hmm just out of interest I just tried to embed one of our label playlists and it seems that option has been disabled as well. Then if you go to the label page and look under Playlists you'll see this message at the bottom of each of your playlists, "Subscribers can listen to playlists once they contain 45 tracks by 15 different artists.".

These new developments (all seemingly coming from the subscriber based push) are majorly crummy for indie labels and independent artists. In my opinion it really weakens the notion of "open discovery" that made Last FM something special for both music listeners and music makers.

My 2 cents worth,.

These new developments are majorly crummy for indie labels and independent artists. In my opinion it really weakens the notion of "open discovery" that made Last FM something special for both music listeners and music makers.
Indeed. No more embedded playlists, also label journals gone, group recommendations gone... doesn't look that bright at the moment. :-(

I must add that it's not all hopeless, though; as a music lover & last.fm user I'm still able to find great new stuff from last.fm all the time. So I guess it still "works" to some extent at least. :-)

well, have a look at this blog post: http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/22/rockband-2-radio

looks like an embedded playlist to me.

I embedded a playlist to play our album in its entirety on our website, but now it only plays 30 second previews of each track. Is there a way to change this back so that the whole of each song plays?

I noticed that the "embed" link in music manager doesn't work properly any more, as skorpio says. Useless indeed!

No more full-length embed of my own music?

I advertised last.fm and drove people to this site - but in return my website visitors now listen to 30 seconds previews of my own tracks eventhough I explicitly set all my tracks full-length? and now embed functionality was hidden from artists aswell? Is this going to be Napster No.2, subscription only?

No thanks, then I rather take all my stuff outta here and have 0 seconds previews on last.fm instead - to go somewhere else where artists are still welcome to publish their full length music to EVERYONE! I generate visitors, traffic and income from ads - and embedding the player is all I expect in return.

I've always been a very fair user of last.fm embeds. I've only embedded my latest tracks, accompanied with huge advertisements for last.fm in return. Now I feel betrayed. Where is the official statement?

I hope this is not true!

Chotaire

What are they thinking? last.fm guys, why do you think do the majors put their stuff onto this website? That's right, because it is widely in use and wellknown on earth. Why do you think it is widely in use? Because all the indie and scene musicians brought you all the people, because you offered them full length hosting of their tracks, available to EVERYONE, long before the majors started throwing their releases after you guys.

If you drive the zeitgeist people away who are responsible for you having contracts with all the majors (because of last.fm's incredible diversity and database), the competition will take over your position, because the independant musicians are only the top of the pyramid who will start leaving.

We don't need last.fm, but you need us. Unless ofcourse you want this site to be just another one of hundreds sites where people can listen to major artist music only. It will not work out longterm - in that case sell this site quickly enough before it's dieing or superceded.

Reinstate full functionality, otherwise this will become just another site soon to be forgotten. Licensing cripples and limited functionality is always the beginning of the end.

last.fm is incredibly cool, but subscription only will NOT work. this is 2008! implement new functionality for labels to choose if they want full length previews for subscribers or for everyone, or if they want regional limitations. there are more than enough indie musicians who are NOT interested in this and who decided NOT to go major labels because of exactly this bullshit. We want our music available for EVERYONE. If you can't do this anymore, we will move away. Competition is welcoming us with open arms.

Sorry for these harsh words, but I have no understanding for this. Let people CHOOSE to subscribe, if they want to join the community. But never force them why limiting their functionality in a way like this.

Congratulations for all the majors, last.fm - you've did well. But don't forget about the rest of us, give us more options to bring back the old functionality - unlimited and available to everyone!

ACCEPT NO LIMITATIONS!

Just for everybody to know: For whatever reason full-length previews work again using the inline player. If this is not a temporary bug: THANK YOU LAST.FM!

I'm more concerned with the ability to embed a single track with a little flash button, like you used to be able to. Will this return? Anyone know of any other sites I can go to get this functionality back?

For those of you still interested I found a solution for my problem:

http://fairtilizer.com/

You can upload high-quality MP3s and embed individual tracks easily with cut and paste code in multiple sizes (inluding the small, standalone play-pause button style that last.fm used to offer).

Enjoy!