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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Tags: entertainment, free online radio, internet, tweak

35 Readers responded to this post

Thanks! works fine… greetings from Hungary.

By Laslo on May 18th, 2009 at 12:36 am

Yeah… Music is free…

By Daniel on May 23rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm

Thnx from a Dutch listener

By rolf on May 25th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Thnx from a brazilian listener²

By Rafael Roland on June 7th, 2009 at 3:56 am

it did not work for me why???

By hector on June 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

@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…

By Pavan Kumar on June 13th, 2009 at 1:31 am

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

By camelsutra on June 16th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

@ 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

By Pavan Kumar on June 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

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.

By valedor on June 24th, 2009 at 8:22 am

@ 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

By camelsutra on June 27th, 2009 at 3:45 am

Graciassssssssssssssssssssssssss

😀 =D =-D

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

By Fernando on July 24th, 2009 at 1:19 am

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?

By tisuo on July 31st, 2009 at 1:27 am

cool thanks you very much

is it possible with iscrobbler ?

By mica on September 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 am

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

By Rox on September 9th, 2009 at 2:41 am

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By chaitan on October 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

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By chaitan on October 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

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.

By irqbw81 on October 14th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Thank you sooooo much!

By Jason on November 8th, 2009 at 5:59 am

how do you get to know the Host of the proxy?

By esther on December 13th, 2009 at 5:10 am

Not working for me… It just says “the last fm servers are temporarily overloaded”, doesn’t matter what IP I use.

By Onk on December 14th, 2009 at 3:17 am

Where exactly do I pick from the proxy list? What I mean is how do I find the IP Host and Port Number?

By Mike on December 18th, 2009 at 8:04 am

Hey everybody! I am from Venezuela and i suffered the same thing with the last fm after a few years of free using. I need some help because i don’t understand the list of free proxys. How can i do to see the host and port numbers? Thnx

By Juan Carlos Paz on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t work for me. Every time I try to use a proxy it says the servers are overloaded, which is a load of bull. Could someone help me out?

By Frou on January 23rd, 2010 at 4:20 am

ty 😀 work !!

By now shoot on January 29th, 2010 at 10:06 pm

please ,could somebody tell me what to do with more simple words or just what ip to write or something like that

By ivo on February 15th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

Yeah can anybody tell us how we fiend the host -number?!!

By Bas Derks on April 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 am

Works great, thank you.

If it doesn’t work for you, try another proxy. You can get a number and port from here

http://www.xroxy.com/proxylist.php?port=80&type=&ssl=&country=US&latency=&reliability=#table

By bb on May 3rd, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Sorry, but I don’t undestand how can I pick up the host and the port from this sites.
If someone could help me I’ll really apreciate =D.
Tnks.
Brazil

By Gubelcha on May 18th, 2010 at 5:49 am

thanx a lot

By gevmhb on December 7th, 2010 at 3:52 am

Thank you so much man, i’m from Mexico & works perfectly

By Chuy on January 4th, 2011 at 8:34 pm

I use an older version of the os x scrobbler, and I’ve been listening to Last.fm from outside of the three countries for over a year now Try to find a version of Last.fm with the following version number (or earlier): 1.5.3.45507.

The iPhone app also works (sorta, crashes a lot) up to version 2.4 outside of the three.

By skeef on March 3rd, 2011 at 4:21 am

did they lock this?? it’s not working for me…how unfair of them

By rita on March 24th, 2011 at 10:36 am

@ Skeef thanks alot dude you really helped me out /kiss

By Monzer_ on May 9th, 2011 at 7:29 pm

it give me error when i play radio ??

By ahmed winchester on June 25th, 2011 at 9:17 am

OMG; IT WORKS. thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu <33

By idana on July 9th, 2011 at 5:49 am