Fwd: Re: Compilation error regarding xine

[Christie Harris]

Since when?

I've been happily playing similar artist radio and I'm not a paid subscriber.

Clarence, there are a number of ways to play different last.fm radio stations.
The error you recieved is *most* likely to be because you've tried to play 
your neighbour radio, whilst not having any/many last.fm neighbours yourself, 
or you're trying to play a station for an artist that doesn't have many 
associations (for each artist there are two possible stations - "similar 
artist radio" which is other artists similar to this one, and "artist fan 
radio" which is taken from the profiles of people who are fans of the 
artist). Note if you use the example below, you will get "similar artists 
radio" by default.

1. You can enter the url of the radio station (for example 
lastfm://artist/shpongle) into the "Play Media..." dialogue on the "Engage" 
menu.
2. You can add the url as a radio stream on Amarok's Playlists browser.
3. You can click on ant radio station link on the last.fm site (as long as you 
have the lastfm protocol registered for your browser).
4. You can send the url of a radio station to Amarok via the command line 
thus: "amarok lastfm://artist/shpongle"

As a non-paying last.fm member, you cannot play anyone's loved tracks, or 
their personal radio - you're limited to neighbour radio, as well as all the 
global tags and artists.
You can, however, play the loved tracks and personal radio of people who ARE 
subscribers.

The easiest way to work it out is to browser around http://last.fm and see 
what you can play, and what sends you to the subscribe page. Hovering on any 
radio station link will also give you the url for that station.

Hope that clears it up a little more!

Cheers, Christie


On Wednesday 05 July 2006 18:48, Jocke Andersson wrote:
> On Wednesday July 5 2006 11:11, Jocke Andersson wrote:
> > To play tracks by particular artists, you need to be a subscriber, check
> > out more at www.last.fm.
>
> Uh, that didn't come out right...
>
> A better way to put it is:
>
> To play tracks by artists you select yourself, you need to be a subscriber.
> As a non-subscriber, you can only play neighbour radios, global tags radios
> and other subscribers personal and loved tracks radios.
>
> //Firetech
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