Last.fm Radio update
Friday, Feb 20. 2009 – Category: Songbird
For folks following the development of the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler add-on… I’ve been working on adding Last.fm Radio support. Check out the screenshot here for a glimpse of the latest revision.
As always, your feedback is appreciated… if you’re running a 1.2.0a nightly, please take it out for a test (XPI) and let me know your thoughts. This is still fairly alpha since it hasn’t had much exposure or proper QA testing – hence the 1.2.0a requirement.
If you find any good bugs, feel free to post a comment to this entry for now.
Update: This won’t work if your Songbird language is set to anything other than English (US) for now. As the UI gets finalised, I’ll get the extension localised.
Update 2: Several people are reporting duplicate Radio nodes… d’oh. I’m looking into it now.
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February 20th, 2009 at 17:20
Just added it and it looks pretty sweet. Good work
February 20th, 2009 at 20:33
Just installed it on 1.2.0a Build 974 (2009.02.14) and I can’t seem to get anything to really work. Instead of painfully trying to explain,
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/12456/lastfm-latest.avi (~16.3MB)
February 20th, 2009 at 20:40
@Bryce Thanks for the video… definitely looks like something is broken. It looks like something in the initialisation failed (since it looks like you’re logged in from the status icon, but that’s not being reflected in the directory page). Can you open your Error Console (Tools>Error Console) and switch it to show only Errors and let me know what errors you see?
February 20th, 2009 at 21:00
When I switch from my Library to the Radio > Last.fm pane:
Error: not well-formed Source File: Line: 1, Column: 146 Source Code: PlayNicklas ‘Nifflas’ Nygren</
When I click the Library tab in the Last.fm Pane,
Error: not well-formed Source File: Line: 1, Column: 146 Source Code: PlayNicklas ‘Nifflas’ Nygren</
February 20th, 2009 at 21:01
Figured I might get cut off. http://codepad.org/MNcbYiXE
The two errors are identical.
February 20th, 2009 at 21:59
@Bryce: I think I’ve found the problem… mind downloading the XPI from the same URL and trying again?
February 20th, 2009 at 22:05
Every update you have made has exceeded my expectations!
I finally noticed what the difference was between the globe links and last.fm image links were.. It could be a little confusing initially to users… I think it would be best when you hover over an item, to just display the ‘Play’ link, and not the last.fm image or globe link. 1) Because it would look cleaner and simpler. 2) They are a tad redundant, because if you click the image or title of the item, it links to the in-songbird veiw (a.k.a what the last.fm image link does) and there is a link to the actual Last.fm page once you go to the in-songbird view of an item.
(hopefully you understand what i’m getting at… i think i do…
I’m kinda against things that clutter the interface, so the next things I’m not sure about: 1) Artist bio next to their image on Artist Detail page? 2) I like looking at the top tracks by an artist often, maybe there is a spot where you could squeeze it in..
Thanks so much Steve! You are a god!
February 20th, 2009 at 22:16
Thanks for the update, Stephen. Works much better now.
New issue, might not be with your extension, http://codepad.org/5bQjtjme
Otherwise, things are wonderful now!
February 21st, 2009 at 00:23
I don’t view the lastfm icons in the radio panel with 1.2.0a.
Have I miss something ?
February 21st, 2009 at 00:35
Wow, looks amazing, installing it now
February 21st, 2009 at 01:36
I don’t view the lastfm icons in the radio panel with 1.2.0a, with the french language. With english language, it’s good !
February 21st, 2009 at 01:44
not working when language is russian. installs fine, but nothing is displayed after restart. no Last.fm under Radio. set to english and restarted. Last.fm is on it’s place under Radio section.
February 21st, 2009 at 01:45
BTW, it’s sooooo cool!
February 21st, 2009 at 02:05
This is really sweet! However, I have in my sidepanel Library, Downloads, Conserts, Radio (with shoutcast) and then another Radio with Last.FM. (This was the best way I could describe the problem). ie, I have 2 Radio-(I don’t know what this is called) something.
Any clue on why?
February 21st, 2009 at 16:42
@Seb, @fuxter: Yeah – I haven’t done any localisation of it yet – so it’ll totally break in any non-English locale… sorry!
@Mattias: Thanks, I’ll try to track that bug down.
February 21st, 2009 at 23:23
Stephen : it’s a beautifull addon !
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:38
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February 23rd, 2009 at 06:39
Great, great… already love it.
— 1 Problem an 1 Suggestion —-
The Last.FM Icon in the servicepane is placed with a totally new Root called Radio. So i have now to Radio roots in the tree… Any chances that Last.FM album art extension gets activated automatically?
THX!
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:37
Thanks for the bug reports on the duplicate Radio node everyone! I’ll take a look into that.
February 23rd, 2009 at 13:39
@boosh: Good points on the redundancy. I’ve taken out the Last.fm link since that’s completely redundant. I’ve left the globe/web-page link since I find a good use case for opening up a bunch of station pages from a given search result without having to click through to each detail page.
Hopefully removing the Last.fm link at least makes that less confusing.
I like the idea for the Artist Bio – but thought it would then be redundant with the information presented by mashTape…
I also like the idea for Top Tracks, but if I saw that information, I would expect to be able to play the specific track – which isn’t possible (at least that I know of). I suppose I could pass it off to a Seeqpod/Skreemr search, but since those aren’t installed by default, that seems poor.
February 23rd, 2009 at 13:52
Very cool!
Ya, now that i think of it, mashTape does a perfect job for me.. so sounds good
And ya, i thought the top tracks would be a little tricky…
Thanks stevel!
February 24th, 2009 at 19:57
This is great. Thanks a ton! This also solves problems with hoping for Fire.fm functionality: it just works with Songbird better, as it has media controls (it’s a media player!) http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/howaboutfirefmsupportforsongbird
February 24th, 2009 at 19:58
Fixed Link to fire.fm Get Satisfaction page: http://is.gd/kLsQ (Apparently underscores italicize?) Thanks.
March 2nd, 2009 at 23:43
Wow, using this extension now its very slick, love the integration with the website. Combined with the latest performance improvements, I think its finally time to switch to the bird. Thanks everyone!