Last.fm Hack to Play Media When Free Trial Expired

Written by Pavan Kumar on May 4, 2009

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Almost every internet freak who is interested in music, audio or listening to free online radio is mostly aware of Last.fm. Last.fm is a free online radio with loads of music and was free for a long time. Recently they announced that users outside US, UK and Germany need to pay a subscription fee of $3 to listen to online radio. This is a bad news for music lovers online and here I have provided a way to hack last.fm.

If you love their service, please subscribe them by paying. If you are a new user, you may use this way to test their service, and if you love it, please purchase. To make it clear, this is not a hack, but I am making use of an available feature in order to clear the blocked way of accessing the free service.

Pick an anonymous proxy server from US / UK / Germany [these are the locations where last.fm is free now] from this proxy list. Note that this is not same as twitter proxy.

Open Last.fm client. Tools > Options > Connection.

Now, choose the manual setting and paste the proxy detail from the list.

Hack last.fm to listen online radio free

Done. You are now anonymising yourself as a user from that country and hence the last.fm servers serve you with free online internet radio.

Note: This tutorial is for education purpose, please purchase if you are not included in free region. Alternatively you may use free internet radio with winamp.

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Thanks! works fine… greetings from Hungary.

Yeah… Music is free…

Thnx from a Dutch listener

Thnx from a brazilian listener²

it did not work for me why???

@hector

Some proxies will go dead after a very few minutes of usage. Its better you check if your proxy server is working, otherwise change the proxy… If you love last.fm, think of buying…

come on… it only 3$ a month, why hack it? this way youre killing the music you want to hear!

@ camelsutra

Even I stress on that. I don’t love music that much and don’t have the subscription, but if people love the service, they should think of buying rather than using shortcuts :)

either I use this method or else I don´t listen music any more, so I am not killing anything, I am making no damage, I don´t sell cloned cds, I just enjoy radio, and I am not the only one. why should us, uk, and germany have it free? tI enjoy and love music as much as anyone, what has nationality to do with love for music? they should pay, as they are from rich countries, this block is killing music lovers.

@ valador

got a point there, same as the last fm app for iphone, not available in the netherlands, it’s a shame but not a reason to hack a site that needs the money to keep existing. they need the money to keep the site online legaly

Graciassssssssssssssssssssssssss

:D =D =-D

Great info!!!!!!!!!!!

great job man. music is free. IT MUST¡. enough the artist will have with the free propaganda. and the shows. great job¡ ANYONE ELSE KNOW A WAY OF HACK THIS SERVICE?

cool thanks you very much

is it possible with iscrobbler ?

Better to NOT use their worthless service, if they hate the world so much that they only wants to give the goodies to Germany, UK and US even if Germany and UK plus many other nations are part of the same European Union, they can kiss my a** because they are not worth the time.

Spotify is the way to go and NO MORE last.fm

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HI, thanks for this info. i would like to know if it is possible to save the audio streamed by lastfm client. i have a slow internet connection and it would be much easier if i can save it and play in my windows media player.

Thank you sooooo much! :)

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    Pavan Kumar

    Pavan Kumar completed Engineering in Electronics and Communication in the year 2008. He is very enthusiastic and keen to work on different aspects of computer, internet and mobile related fields. The articles here reflect his creativity. This blog was started as a showcase of solutions for different problems and today it has got a good reputation in the blogosphere. Read More...

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