last.fm as a service?

[Ian Monroe]

On Dec 11, 2007 11:11 AM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > LastFm streams should really be just another radio stream type in the
> > playlist browser, like it is currently in 1.4. Like you can add a
> > radio station with a URL or you can add a LastFm stream with a
> > lastfm:// URL or with a dialog to help you construct a lastfm:// URL.
> > They would be implemented as subclasses of Meta::Track.
>
> Thats the thing, I don't really like the radio stream being in the
> playlist browser either. I think the a service could easilly be used
> to store any number of streams that the user defines, as well as some
> of the predefined ones.
>
> - Nikolaj

So as long as we agree that Last.fm Radio stations aren't really much
different then normal radio stations (from the users perspective) and
that last.fm radio should always be part of a comprehensive custom
stream thing, I guess I wouldn't have any objections to last.fm radio
being part of a service (though keeping in mind what Casey pointed
out, Last.fm does have the Love/Ban Actions need to be accessible from
other parts of Amarok). End sentence.

Really though we need to figure what we're doing with the playlist
browser in general. Like really radio stations don't seem much
different then playlists (since some of them are just remote .m3u
lists rather then being true streaming radio stations).

Ian