Strands, The team behind the social music site, MyStrands, have updated their Social Music Player for Symbian S60 (and java) equipped phones. Picking up all the music on your device, Strands can recommend similar artists and songs, match you up with users that have similar musical tastes, and helps you navigate your musical neighbourhood. Conscious that other services are available, the big news for this update is the inclusion of support for UK based Last.FM, and the sending of your track information to that service as well.

Rather than take an approach that plugs-in to the existing media player on the S60 devices, the MyStrands Social Player plays back the tracks inside the application, which leads to a consistent interface, but one that lacks a tight integration to the rest of your phone.

But it's all here, including a recommendation engine that churns out pretty respectable matches, as witnessed in the screens.

We'll be taking a more in-depth look at the MyStrands Social Player later this week, but for now, there's more over at the Strands Blog.

We have just released version 3.1 of Nokia’s Mobile Rules! 2008 winning application, MyStrands Social Player, which allows you to scrobble tracks to Last.fm as you play music on your Symbian S60 3rd Edition and J2ME (optimized for Nokia S40) devices (download for S60 devices here and for S40 devices here). Recently listened tracks on your mobile device will now be available on your Last.fm profile.

http://blog.strands.com/