Like.fm is in semi-private beta. You can read this blog to keep up with bleeding-edge feature updates and bug fixes.
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Send your support emails to chris@like.fm.
When you post a song and the auto youtube detection gets the wrong song, you can edit manually. If you don’t fix it at this point we’ll grab the wrong preview for the song when you hover over it.
Just delete the song and repost with the correct title and artist name filled in and the preview when you hover over it should be corrected. We grab the preview separately from YouTube if you supply a YouTube video, and that’s why it’s different.
Introducing: Stacks
Stacks are an easy way to automatically categorize and organize songs based on the tags you attach to every song. If you wanted to feature all “indie rock” songs, for example, you might create a stack with the tags “indie” and “rock.” Then all songs containing both the tags “indie” and “rock” will automatically appear in your stack. Tags can be any text you want, which means you can also specify the single tag “indie rock.”
You can create up to eight stacks to feature on your profile and they are non-destructive, which means you can delete your “indie rock” stack and be able to instantly recover the stack just by specifying the tag again.
This is a powerful feature and we hope you can come up with great new ways we haven’t even imagined for organizing your music.
To start you off we’ve pre-tagged all of your music so you can start stacking songs just by specifying tags.
It’s not supposed to work with Last.fm.
You post songs to Like.fm.
If you need more help please email chris@like.fm.
Popular Songs Charts
We’ve improved the charts so that now you can see the most popular songs being posted on Like.fm and break it down by genre as well.
Here are the initial categories. If you have suggestions, please send them to chris@like.fm.
Less talk, more browsing.
Seamless Transitions
We’ve upgraded the audio player to support crossfading when the next song starts.
Click on a song to play the whole song. Wait until the end to hear it transition to the next song by crossfading.
Automatic Song Tags
You’ll now get suggested tags automatically filled in when you post a song.
We do realize tags don’t do anything on the site yet, but they are about to be the basis of some cool new stuff.
Feel free to edit those tags to anything you wish when you post a song.
Better & More Accurate Song Previews
We’ve drastically improved the automatic song preview system so that extremely new songs or obscure songs and remixes will now have previews when you hover over them.
In particular, The Hype Machine’s songs should have previews more accurately assigned from now on.
Liking songs
We just added the ability to “Like” a song.
You can use this to let someone know you like a song without having to repost it to your profile. You can also use it to save a song in case you want to post it later. Recent likes are shown as a list on your profile.
