{"id":7437,"date":"2010-08-10T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:46:00","slug":"last-fm-android-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=7437","title":{"rendered":"Last.FM Android Hack!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLast.FM is an internet streaming radio service that adjusts its playlists to your likes and dislikes. It’s free for users in UK, USA and Germany, and available for a 3 EUR monthly subscription to the rest of the world. I liked it so much that I’ve signed up for a year.<\/p>\n

You can listen to music via a flash-based player that runs in a web browser. For Android phones, there’s also a Last.FM client. Strangely, the Last.FM client is only downloadable to android market users in USA, UK and Germany, but of course, you can always fake your location so that you can download it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday night, I opened the Android client and to my dismay, the “Radio” tab was not there any more! Some searching of the comments on the Market showed that a recent update (thank’s to my setting that app to auto-update — a new feature in android 2.2) only allows streaming radio to mobile devices in UK, US and Germany. Hey, they took my money!!!<\/p>\n

After some desperate asking around if anyone still had the old version in their phones, I found this site:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.csmarshal.com\/2010\/08\/09\/last-fm-v1-6-5-for-android\/#comments<\/p>\n

Not only has this guy kindly archived a set of all the released versions of Last.FM’s android client on his web page, but one of the kind readers has also hacked a copy of the latest version of the app to bypass the location checks.<\/p>\n

So now I’ve got the latest version streaming radio on my phone again. Yay!<\/p>\n

(Of course, you never know what else the guy may have hacked into the app, but I’ll take that risk right now)<\/p>\n

While you’re here, you may want to check out this link I got from Sabri … it rings so true, I really am beginning to not care about my music collection any more. Would be nice to have a Last.FM client in the car!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/sabre23t\/fm7yvn9aJdD\/Suddenly-I-Dont-Think-I-Want-To-Own-Music-Anymore<\/p>\n

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