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Tomorrow, Last.fm and CBS are announcing new features that are to be added to Last.fm. I am always amazed by the awesome music recommendations it gives me. I think that technology could be simply revolutionnizing for video. There are so many awesome videos out there on sites such as Youtube, imagine a Last.fm Video filter that provides personalized recommendations, so you keep getting amazed by the recommendations that just perfectly fit you.

I would like Last.fm to add these features:

- Personalized recommendations filtered by genre, mixed with Loved tracks by genre. Basically this would provide an automatic DJ’ing function. So for example I could set Last.fm up to play lots of party tracks at a party. And perhaps have it synchronize with a Pioneer type of hardware but very cheap type that let’s me preview the next songs, re-arrange them and mix them live.

- “Download all songs by this artist” feature. Artists are able to add songs that Last.fm users can download for free. I’d like to download all songs in one click, even if it would cost me a few cents per gygabyte and that it downloads through a Last.fm download manager integrated with the player software. And also download x amount of GB of songs from my recommendations and from my Loved tracks. Basically this feature would be to fill up my Mp3 player with music that I like, that I need to discover, that fits my taste, complete discographies for artists which I loved one of their songs, basically fill up my Mp3 player without me having to think too much what to put on it.

- Let me pay the artists through Last.fm. I’d like to pay for example $5 per month which I would like to reward all the artists that I listen to a lot. Especially the artists who’s song I love on Last.fm, especially the artists who provide me with free Mp3 downloads. So based on popularity and quality, this Voluntary Artists Money should be redistributed by Last.fm. The idea is that millions of Last.fm users could fund a lot of artists, giving them an incentive to release all their music on Last.fm as free Mp3 downloads so they can earn a larger amount of money this way. Integrate this with countries legislation on the global licence, so people through taxes can reward the most popular and the highest quality artists. So Last.fm this way could provide the statistics to reward all the artists fairly.