Last.fm services falling apart

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Saturday 21 July 2007, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> Heya,
>
> one thing that is worrying me a bit is that last.fm's web services
> have been falling apart increasingly of late: First the submissions
> server got very flaky (ok, this is no news, happens all the time),
> then a few weeks ago the "Skip" function in streams ceased to work,
> and I hear other things stopped working as well.
>
> Naturally, the first thing that users assume is that Amarok is broken.
> Hum. Well, I've asked Muz from last.fm for clarification once, and he
> explained to me that they've changed their protocol, but that the old
> protocol is still supported. Apparently this support isn't a very high
> priority for them though :(

Is there a chance that we can switch to the new protocol before the 1.4.7 
release? Are the specs for the new protocol online somewhere, or do we have 
to figure it out by reading the source code of the official client?

Max
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