last.fm

Is there any last.fm software for AmigaOS? I know there's a MorphOS AmigaAMP plugin, Amiscrobbler.

@Thematic

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Dunnoh about the existing software, but theoretically, it should be easy to make one, afaik, there's python proxy that can do the trick (google will get you there)

Their (last.fm) site has certain conventions. Once get my A1 working, I'll try to derive the conventions from Amarok's source and get it going, one it's done, the rest is streaming mp3 afaik.


Jack

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reworked the punctuation to make it readable.

@Jack

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I don't think you will have much space left on your TODO pile
once i filed my (software/porting/bug fix) requests, so don't
take on any more projects you won't be able to handle (time wise)

hehehe

@Thematic

It would be a helluva lot easier if they'd put a stream (.pls) up

@Raziel

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getting up on feet and start running would be a start (will be pretty tight, moving to new house)

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It's not a "static host+port" there.
Is tunenet capable of streaming any url given the stream is mp3? If yes, then a plugin should be possible.

Jack.

@Jack

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I think so, yes

a last.fm client with tunenet & docky support would be fun.
A simple port of that amiscrobbler plugin could be enough, but afaik that client isn't working anymore, at least i couldn't get it to work under morphos when i tested it a long time ago. I havent tried that one on aminet but i think it's the same version as the one i used

amiscrobbler doesn't work anymore.

Try to contact mahen and his great "zinouscrobbler".

Web page : http://mahen.free.fr/scrobbler

@BatteMan

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Does this one work? Full functionality? Afaik the conventions changed a while ago ("Similar Artists"-related).

Jack

@Thematic

Ok, quick and dirty shot on the issue:

1. unpack lastfm proxy from:
http://vidar.gimp.org/lastfmproxy/

2. change config.py to contain user data

3. makelink PYTHON:Lib/thread.py PYTHON:Lib/dummy_thread.py soft
makelink PYTHON:Lib/thread.pyc PYTHON:Lib/dummy_thread.pyc soft

4. edit PYTHON:Lib/threading.py:
comment out line to read:
#_sleep(0.000001) # 1 usec, to let the thread run (Solaris hack)

5. run "python main.py", ignore warnings

6. change main.py of the proxy at line~610 by commenting out the 3 lines:

# t = threading.Thread(target=self.metadataloop)
# t.start()
# runningthreads.append(t)

(the "metadataloop" yells at "time.sleep(1)" line, maybe some python gurus could spill some light on this)

7. add mime type
AUDIO/X-MPEGURL
extension: m3u
viewer: c:run
parameters path_to_mplayer -playlist %u -quiet
(or other app that is capable of playing streaming audio, I currently don't use tunenet because it causes AWeb to GR)
The viewer command and parameter work in AWeb.

8. point the browser to url as in example to listen artists similar to the band you wish:

http://localhost:1881/lastfm://artist/Comus/similarartists (enter)

and click "Play Radio" (on AWeb second click launches the mplayer)


Issues found so far:

the web-gui doesn't work as it should imho (browser issue?): while playing, http://localhost:1881 should display the info (album cover + names), AWeb seem to be stuck downloading image

there are no tags in the stream

sometimes the proxy streams, but the web interface is stuck (amiga python issue imho)

Any suggesstions/ideas?

Jack