Joystick confirms LastFM / 360 deal is useless

[Gnizmo]

selnor said:

Thing is my seperates system is connected to my 360. I would never listen to music on my PC as the sound is so inferior even with the best sound card and speakers for PC on the market. My Arcam Amp (which cost £1200) is so awesome with anything like music or films or games. It's a crime not to lie back in the armchair and rev it up. So Last.FM on the 360 is gonna be perfect. I use my 360 already alot to listen to music. I have so many albums on there. Gods knows how many Ive got now.

Its pretty easy to hook your PC into a decent sound set-up and listen through that. There are even devices designed to wirelessly transmit between your PC and stereo set-up to get the most out of music located on the PC. But beyond that there is a bigger problem. The quality of the songs on last.fm isn't really all that high. You can only get so much benefit given the source material is not the best quality. Yes your sound set-up might be a bazillion times better for CDs, but it is not going to magically change the songs you get from last.fm into something amazing, or even worth being played on a great set-up. In order to get the streaming to work on bad connections the sound quality over all is lowered. So I am not really seeing the benefit of hooking it up to a great sound system.

@koweniki
Same as above. I would reply to you on a more individual basis, but it would be almost line for line the same as you are both using the same argument. Nothing against you guys agreeing like that, but no use in repeating myself either ya know?

There are those out there who will still tout this as a killer ap though. I am not lumping you in with them, or them in with the majority but those kind of idiots do exist. I just can't see this as much of a benefit if it prevents me from utilizing any other feature. This would be really cool as an add-on to the custom sound track feature already offered by the console. The wasted potential is extremely disheartening.