Last.fm Signs Deal With Logitech

Last.fm has signed a deal with Logitech to provide access to its music catalog via the technology manufacturer’s Squeezebox network system. Logitech Squeezebox owners will now have access to Last.fm’s personalized streaming music experience anywhere in their home, for free.

Beginning today, the service will be available in the U.S., UK and Germany. (This will be the first free music service offered through the Squeezebox system in Europe.)

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Last.fm Teams Up With Logitech To Bring Its Personalized Streaming Music Experience To Home Stereos
Collaboration Offers Logitech Network Music System Owners Access To Last.fm’s Extensive Music Catalog

New York/London, 9th June 2008 – Last.fm today announced the next step in its collaboration with Logitech which will enable users of  network music systems to access Last.fm’s personalized streaming music experience anywhere in their home, for free. It is the first free music service offered through the Squeezebox system in Europe. This arrangement builds on the existing relationship between Last.fm and Logitech, announced earlier this year, which brought Last.fm’s scrobbling capability to the Logitech Squeezebox systems.

Starting today, music fans using the Logitech® Squeezebox™ Duet, Logitech® Squeezebox™ Classic or the Logitech® Transporter™ network music systems will be able to access Last.fm’s music catalog – the largest streaming music catalogue available online – through their home stereo systems.  This will allow users to listen to a stations based on artists or genres on their home stereos, while also allowing them to use Last.fm’s personalized recommendation stations, which are based on users’ listening habits.

Martin Stiksel, Last.fm co-founder, said: “It’s something of a milestone to be offering the Last.fm streaming music experience for the first time on a hardware device, and we’re pleased to be reaching that milestone with Logitech. Last.fm is now no longer limited to your computer, and this marks another step toward giving music fans access to Last.fm’s unparalleled music services anywhere and everywhere they go.”

“Logitech is pleased to be the first hardware partner of Last.fm, world's largest social music platform with over 20 million active users,” said Robin Selden, vice president of the Logitech Streaming Media business unit. “Now users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm's music library and thanks to Logitech’s network music systems, people can enjoy that music anywhere in their home.”

The new Last.fm music service is available beginning today in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. The Logitech Squeezebox Duet network music system is available worldwide for a suggested retail price of $399.99 (U.S.). The Logitech Squeezebox Classic network music player is available worldwide for a suggested retail price of $299.99 (U.S.). The Logitech Transporter network music player is available now for a suggested retail price of $1999.99 (U.S.).

About Last.fm
Founded in 2002 in London, Last.fm is the online, social music revolution that connects people with music and artists with listeners. By joining the Last.fm community, music fans can choose to share their music preferences by linking their media player to the Last.fm database. This database is populated continually with over 600 million monthly track submissions from Last.fm music fans. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs, artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical tastes. Thanks to partnerships with EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, CD Baby, independent aggregators The Orchard and IODA, and more than 100,000 independent musicians and 20,000 labels that upload music directly to the site, Last.fm can draw recommendations from one of the most extensive online music catalogues.

Learn more about Last.fm at www.last.fm.

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