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Last.fm VS MusicBrainz

Compare Last.fm VS MusicBrainz and see what are their differences

Last.fm logo Last.fm

The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm

MusicBrainz logo MusicBrainz

A community-maintained open source database and encyclopedia of music information.
  • Last.fm Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-17
  • MusicBrainz Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-23

Last.fm videos

DO NOT USE last.fm website review (BAD WEBSITE)

More videos:

  • Review - Music I Listened to in 2018 [last.fm]

MusicBrainz videos

Quick Look: MusicBrainz Picard

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Last.fm and MusicBrainz)
Music Streaming
98 98%
2% 2
Shopping
0 0%
100% 100
Music
89 89%
11% 11
Audio Player
81 81%
19% 19

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Reviews

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Last.fm Reviews

9 Best Free Music Download Sites in 2022
Last.fm is the flagship product of Audioscrobbler's music engine design team. Users "record" tracks more than 10 million times a day to Last FM's servers, it's one of the world's largest social music platforms.
9 best free Spotify alternatives
Last.fm is more about music discovery than listening to what you already know: its famous "scrobbling" analyses the songs you listen to (not just on the site, but in desktop and mobile music apps too) and comes up with suggestions for similar music it thinks you'll like. Frustratingly many of the available tracks are just previews, and the free radio streaming is a paid-for...

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Last.fm seems to be a lot more popular than MusicBrainz. While we know about 2621 links to Last.fm, we've tracked only 96 mentions of MusicBrainz. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Last.fm mentions (2621)

  • The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
    I switched to https://qobuz.com, mainly for the high audio quality (it goes up to 192kHz 24bit, which is worth it for me as I have the necessary equipment to make use of this), but it also supports "Spotify quality" i.e. Mp3 quality/320 kbps, but I stayed for the experience. It does not really have an algorithm, there is one playlist "My weekly Q", which updates each week with songs that you could like. The only... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • Mr. Bungle - Nananana (lost fake song)
    Hi, anyone remember that song? I remember I downloaded it from ares and I liked it but unfortunately it wasn't by mr bungle, it was just mislabelled (like the toxic cover). If anyone has it around I would like to hear it again! On last.fm it comes up as some people listen to it from time to time. Any info you have, or the original artist, I'd appreciate it. From what I remember it sounded like a demo and just said... Source: 5 months ago
  • 1970’s music makes me feel the most alive. What music does that for you?
    Try last.fm, great website for recommending music. Those one's you suggested are a bit more jazzy than I usually listen to but maybe try What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye. Talking Book, or Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder. Couple of my favorites. Source: 5 months ago
  • Outjerked by last fm
    Average last.fm comment section to be fair. Source: 5 months ago
  • I Tried Apple Music and That Made Me Realize How Much Polish TIDAL is Missing
    However, I can fully enjoy my last.fm subscription with Tidal thanks to the integrated scrobbler. I could with AM too but it would be necessary to download (and buy) two different scrobblers : one for iOS and one for macOS. Then, I feel like Tidal has more interesting recommendations, especially when we talk about lesser-known artists. Tidal Rising allows for nice discoveries while AM is much more focused on music... Source: 5 months ago
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MusicBrainz mentions (96)

  • Show HN: Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia
    It is really cool and useful. Interesting that you were able to gather enough data from users to make it work. I guess it was much less useful in the beginning? I thought of making something similar with data from https://musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • apostrophes ’ vs '
    What do you use to tag your music? I imagine if you use a consistent piece of software (mp3tag, musicbrainz picard), they're going to do it the same way. Or for example, maybe musicbrainz.org allows people to enter metadata in their database in UTF-8, so it's possible you might get different answers from there even though you're using a standard piece of software. I imagine something like picard could use a search... Source: 5 months ago
  • HD Sour Album Cover?
    The MusicBrainz database usually has hq versions of most covers. Source: 10 months ago
  • Music Streaming Server that works with folders ?
    When it comes to MusicBrainzPicard, it pulls data directly from https://musicbrainz.org/. If you are finding music you have that isn't listed in the database, you could help out by contributing to the database so that everyone gets access to that music. Source: 10 months ago
  • Where’s everyone going for the protest? Low key sweating because Reddit is my fav Kpop space.
    While this doesn't help with replacing the discussion you get on reddit, might I suggest people spend some time contributing to their favourite artists on https://musicbrainz.org/ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicbrainz )? Many services & apps use MusicBrainz data, so you could help your favourites by making sure the information for their entries on MusicBrainz is as complete and accurate as possible! Source: 11 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Last.fm and MusicBrainz, you can also consider the following products

Spotify - Map shows when two people play same song at same time

MusicBrainz Picard - Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.‎Downloads · ‎MusicBrainz Blog · ‎Picard 2.

Deezer - Deezer is a music streaming app created in France. It is available in 180 counties and gets 16 million users a month. 6 million of the users have paid subscriptions. Read more about Deezer.

Discogs - Discover music on Discogs, the largest online music database. Buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace.

Pandora - Pandora Radio is a free (ad-supported) internet radio founded in 2000.

ListenBrainz - Open source music website that allows users to import their listen history.