last.fm streaming

[Max Howell]

It shouldn't be necessary to adapt to the new radio and scrobbling
architectures. I'll take another look at it when I get home. However
last time I tested it (after being told it was broken), it worked on
three seperate test machines. So I didn't know where to go from there.

If you adapt to radio 1.2, you have to use scrobbler 1.2 too. Both are
much more complicated and have strict requirements for handling that
are intrusive to adapt too. Ie skips/loves/bans etc. have to be passed
with the scrobble, which means you need to pass all this info to the
scrobbler. Radio must be scrobbled too. Radio comes in playlists that
you have to parse and then stream tracks individually.

So I don't recommend switching if it can be avoided.

Max

> > Hi everybody
> > Last.fm changed their streaming architecture a while ago. Skipping hasn't been
> > working reliable for some time, but now even the streaming does not work
> > anymore with Amarok. It still works with the official client, and the last.fm
> > guys might fix the streaming problem too, but we should put a *very* high
> > priority on figuring out how the official client works and port Amarok's
> > last.fm code. Afaik the new streaming architecture is not documented
> > anywhere:(
>
> Yes, I agree entirely. We need to adapt to audioscrobbler version 1.2
> asap, even if that means breaking the freezes we have on stable
> branch.
>
> I'd be happy to help getting this out of the way.
>
> Seb