Last.fm Player

Last.fm Player

Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalized to you.

You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, as well as much more.

Ubuntu Install Instructions

The following commands will add the repositories for Last.FM player, add an authentication key and finally install it.

sudo -i
echo 'deb http://apt.last.fm/ debian stable # Last.FM Player' | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O- http://apt.last.fm/last.fm.repo.gpg | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install lastfm

More info about these steps can be found here.

As examples, here you can see the webmasters top artists he listened so far or you can listen to similar music of his tastes:

streamtuner

streamtuner is a stream directory browser.
Through the use of a plugin system, it offers an intuitive interface to Internet radio directories such as SHOUTcast and Live365.

With streamtuner, you can:

• Manage your local music collection, with full support for ID3 and Vorbis metadata editing
• Listen to streams, browse their web page, or record them using programs such as Streamripper

Installation:
streamtuner can be installed directly from the Linux repositories or from the webpage.

Other applications:
vlc (VideoLan-Client) contains also access to a huge directory of online streaming services like streamtuner. You can find it inside the playlist editor. (haven't checked this yet if it is available also on the Windows port of vlc.)

The main difference:
streamtuner doesn't play itself the radio, but uses your preferred multimedia player. For example, I use the default Totem Movie player on Ubuntu.