If you love music and listen to it online you must be familiar with Last.fm – which is world’s largest online music catalogue and popular Internet radio site for streaming music. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play songs right from your browser without opening any media player or a music website?
Since Google Chrome opened support for Extensions some amazing extensions have been created. A Google Chrome extension called Last.fm Free Music Player helps you play music from Last.fm directly. It’s not only easy to use but also very convenient. Let’s see how it works and look at some of its features and settings.
Last.fm Free Music Player for Google Chrome In Action:
The Last.fm Music Player integrates the Last.fm interface into Google Chrome. When you install this extension, you would see a button for Last.fm Music Player player at the top right corner of your browser.
When a song is playing you can just hover over the button to see the name of the song. The button itself shows the remaining playtime of the song.
When you click on the player button you get a dropdown of the songs playlist. You can play or pause any song from this list.
It has the option to repeat songs or stop after playing a specific song. You can also enable the scrobbling of songs with this extension. You have to give permission to this extension access to your Last.fm account.
Playing Songs With The Last.fm Free Music Player:
When you first install the extension you need to visit the your Last.fm account and go to a playlist page. You can visit any artists album or your own playlist page. Once there, click on the Music Player Button and it will pick up the songs from the page and remember them. You can then close the Last.fm website.
When a new song starts playing you get notifications about the name of the artist and the song above the system tray.
Last.fm Music Player Extension – Settings & Features:
You can access the options for the extension by right clicking on the Player button in the top right corner.
You can select if you want to see notifications for new songs, playing previews if the song isn’t found and select an external song search engine.
Some Features of this extension:
- Last.fm Scrobbling support
- No Flash Required
- Play music in background
- A Simple music player integrated into Google Chrome
- Can play Last.fm recommendations and albums in one click
- New Song Notifications
Conclusion:
Like most of you I like listening to music while surfing the internet or even while writing blog posts. I’m thoroughly enjoying this extension and I think so will you. Give it a try.
Install Last.fm Free Music Player Extension for Google Chrome.
Let us know if you liked it and if it met your expectations in the comments section below.
