Favtape Offers Full-Track Access to Your Pandora, Last.fm Favorites
We’re big fans of Pandora, the streaming music service, but one big drawback is that you can’t play songs on demand. If you mark a song as a favorite it’ll show up in your profile, but you can only play a short clip.
Last.fm is in a similar boat, though the company did recently add full song support for some record labels. Still, while both services are great, they’re both missing a few features.
And that’s where Favtape comes into the mix. Favtape scraps your list of favorite songs from Pandora or last.fm and then offers up a playlist with the full tracks. Think of it as a fully automated version of Muxtape.
In fact, Favtape largely mimics the look and feel of Muxtape, but lacks some of the features — for instance there’s no way to change the order of your playlists. There are, however, things like recommendations, links to similar artists and other tools for discovering new music.
Favtape uses the Seeqpod API, which means none of the songs are hosted on its servers (actually Seeqpod doesn’t host any files either, it just crawls the net to find them). Hopefully that means the site can avoid a nasty lawsuit, but somehow, in the long run, we suspect the record industry will come after just about everyone.
Still, for the time being anyway, Favtape is a great way to get full-song playback from your Pandora or last.fm favorites.
[Note: Sorry international readers, but due to licensing restrictions, Pandora is only available in U.S. If you’re handy with proxy servers, you can of course get around that limitation.]
[via TechCrunch]
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