The privacy of your music habits is more secure than ever with Rdio. A few days ago, the company added a couple privacy options that relate to Facebook and Last.fm. On the Facebook side, you can now choose to opt out of automatically sharing everything you listen to on Rdio with Facebook (if those accounts are linked). You can also disable Last.fm scrobbling. Scrobbling basically means the songs you listen to on Rdio are added to your Last.fm profile. This new privacy option helps to keep everything separated.

. image courtesy of flickr Radio, possibly one of the most powerful means of communication, is on its last leg. For decades DJ’s and talkshows have long been great to listen to in the car on the way to work, school, and of course, for entertainment. But how long do they have left? One would more »

Slacker Radio, one of the many online and mobile options for radio, is rumored to be adding on-demand music playback to their service. The Pandora, Last.fm, and let’s not forget regular radio competitor will soon be taking on a whole new force in Rhapsody, Spotify, and Napster by allowing users to choose what songs they more »

Warner Music Group, one of the world’s largest music conglomerates, has said it will stop licensing songs to free music streaming services. Warner executive Edgar Bronfman, Jr. made the following statement to BBC News: “Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not more »

This morning, Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has it from multiple sources that Google is prepping some sort of music service for the US. It is unknown if it is a download service to compete with the likes of iTunes and Amazon or if it is a streaming service such as Pandora or Last.fm. What more »

Microsoft has certainly been the charmer at E3 this year. People went gaga over their new Project Natal (as well they should!), they announced a way to deliver movies in 1080p format…no disks and no waiting for download. And also, they worked with the uber-social networking site of the time, Facebook, to have it work more »

The new year is upon us and it is time to decide what our resolutions will be. Music is something that everyone likes, but some of us do not take full advantage of all the great music services out there. Let’s take a look at 5 popular services that can help you find new music.

1. Last.fm

I’m sure many of you know about Last.fm already. One thing that I find annoying is when you know a song by an artist but don’t know any other good ones and you’re left listening to only that one song.

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Streaming music from Last.fm, the popular social music platform, can now be done using Vista Media Center. This one is just an upgrade to the previous Windows Media Center 2005 plugin that allows music streaming from the website. Developed by Damian Meher, the new plugin lets the user stream audio tracks from Last.fm by simply more »

A recent partnership between Logitech and Last.fm will allow users to enjoy free personalized radio. The radio can be listened to using select internet radio receivers from Logitech to include the Squeezebox and Transporter. Users will be able to have an on-the-go experience with Last.fm, taking the PC out of the picture. Sadly as of more »