last.fm streaming

[Ian Monroe]

On 9/3/07, Max Howell <maxim.howell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It really can't be. It was actually working 100% the last time I
checked, about a week ago (prior to that, skipping and such hadn't
been working for about a month only a basic stream). But  I have no
doubt that Max K's report is accurate.

Ian