Hi everyone. The old Aol Radio service has stopped existing in France, in Uk and the rest of Europe will soon follow.
Aol has made a deal with Last-Fm for all Europe.
The player has disappeared and now on the Aol web page we have a clone of the Last-Fm player.
All the Aol radios have vanished, we can only choose one artist and the player will follow with similar artists. If i want for example to listen the latests pop hits; well : don't even think of it ! All i can't do is selecting is a "tagged radio"; that's to say a list of songs based on tags made by the users : for exemple "Pop" goes from Tatu to the Beatles. The list of very specialized aol stations is gone !
Moreover the tags are not recognised by Aomrecord.
Aol Germany stills exists but the canadian version has also left and has been replaced by Shoutcast.
As the german Aol Radio is condemned we'll be only with the american version left.
It's pretty sad as i'm not interested by last-fm.
What are your thoughts about that?
Just another question : what is the format and the bitrate of the music
streamed by Last-Fm? Is that music ripped by the Uk based team or are
they songs uploaded by the users (which would mean a lot of badly encoded
tracks like in
Deezer.com)?
Good evening.
Alexandre.