Last.fm

It’s good Add-On, but in my Songbird 0.5pre sometimes don’t send nothing to last.fm.

this does not work with 0.4….
please fix it because I do like Songbird but also love last.fm……

works fine for me Win XP and Songbird 0.4

This doesn’t seem to work with special characters. The band Feu Thérèse is submitted as Feu Th?r?se.

This isn’t working fully for me…
It will send information about what I’m listening to, but won’t scrobble the track. Online it will say I’m “Now Listening” to a song, but once it’s done there’s nothing to show for it.

I was just curious, was it something in the audioscrobbler protocol that changed or Songbird, that made the old one incompatible all this time? Or did you guys just want to implement it differently this time?

When i listen to music from my library it records the song two times on last.fm.

And when i’m listening on songs from the iPod library or from the library on my external hdd by using the “iPod Device Support” and “USB mass-storage device” addons it doesn’t record them at all.

(Songbird 0.4)

If it’s recorded twice, u probably have ur original Last.FM application running. Same goes for iScrobbler or any other app.

I have Songbird 0.4 and it’s send nothing to Last.Fm. I’m sure that i write true password and user name. Do you have some ideas?

I have the same problem. Recently listened tracks are shown once, but the tracks are shown twice in the charts. I compared the behavior of the extension and the official Last.fm application with Wireshark. It seems that the extension does not follow the first rule of submission: “The track must be submitted once it has finished playing. Whether it has finished playing naturally or has been manually stopped by the user is irrelevant.”. http://www.audioscrobbler.net/development/protocol/ The submission is done when half of the track has been played. I don’t know if this is causing the problem. I have send the Wireshark traces to last.fm support for comment.

Now I know what is causing the problem. it is the rating parameter in the submission. The official application seems to leave rating empty. I changed the extension in the following way and it works.

--- audioscrobbler.js.orig      2008-02-01 15:41:05.000000000 +0200
+++ audioscrobbler.js   2008-02-01 15:59:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 audioscrobbler.scrobbleTrack = function(artist, track, album, duration,
                trackNum, startTime) {
        var source = "P";
-       var rating = "L";
+       var rating = "";

        // Can only scrobble if we're logged in
        if (!this.loggedIn())

It is easy to test. Tracks played steps twice with the unmodified extension and once with modified extension.

If it’s not working with you guys, try to change the option “Block websites from viewing information about media in my Library and devices”, located in the Web Integration tab; Tools > Options.
It worked with me!!

The problem is that submission string is not UTF-8 encoded. To fix this you should change escape function to encodeURIComponent function in audioscrobbler.js

I don’t know why but since the last update it doesn’t work as good as before so now sometimes it transmit data and sometimes not.

Very nice AddOn, scrobbling without any problems for me (at least after rodsanchez’ tip).
Still, I also have this problem with "special" characters, but I, frankly, don’t understand the solution provided by timo…
What exactly can I do so it doesn’t screw up my charts? :D
Thanks in advance for your help.

I installed it on my 0.4 version recently downloaded, and it doesn’t seem to work.

Hope it get’s a fix soon

Works great most of the time, even with “Block websites from viewing information about media in my Library and devices” option enabled.

It doesn’t work when playing tracks directly from a USB mass storage device.

Version: 0.0.4
Songbird version: 0.5pre20080305windows-i686-msvc8
USB device: Samsung YH-J70

Worked for me as well, thank you!

This is great! I’ve been searching for this for ages (read:days) but it still makes me happy.

Thanks guys and gals :)

I am having one small problem with this add on. Am running songbird on a computer with wifi that cuts in and out. If the internet disconnects then re-connects this addon stops uploading data. (Untill i restart songbird) Is it possible for it to try and reconnect when a network connection is found, or just to periodically re-test for a connection?

Just updated to Songbird 5 and am unable to get the LastFM add-on to work… Will try to send more detailed info, but I am running XP.

Update: My songs are being sent to LastFM and appear properly on my music profile.

They do not appear on the external LastFM widgit (or what ever it is called).

Conclusion: Works wonderful. Now, I wonder if there is an add-on for the Mixi (Japanese social website) music scrobbler…

This plug in worked for me for two submissions when first installed. Since it has stopped working. I thought that it was because my connection was dropped (stupid AT&T) but after a restart it didn’t start working. I tried changing settings as suggested in previous comments with no success.

I checked the error log but there are no errors. There are some submission related messages but it APPEARS like things are working fine. There is one message that hints at an issue but I’m not sure if it’s related to the plug in:

“Blocklist::_loadBlocklistFromFile: XML File does not exist.”

I’m using the latest Mac X OS using the latest songbird release and scrobbler plug in.

Disappointed that the plugin doesn’t scrobble tracks from a mtp device but only tracks in the main library.

If someone wants to point me in the right direction to fix this I would gladly help.

Great add-on :) Works fine for me (Win XP).
However, music played from websites (like hypem.com) does not seem to be scrobbled… intended?
(There’s neither requests nor responses in the error console)

Thanks.

Also, it seems that no songs are scrobbled once the “pause” button has been used. This should rather apply to the single song that has been paused, not to successing songs, right?

Scrobbles from the Songbird library just fine as long as LastFM.exe is not running at the same time. I too would very much like to scrobble when I play songs through Songbird that I have not downloaded yet, but thanks very much for the add-on even without that feature.

Here there is a scrobbler that works through the official Last.fm client, and supports offline scrobbling etc: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1208
peace

Need to set maxVersion to 0.7pre

This addons is now perfect for my needs (With support for flaky internet connections) My Wifi drops out all the time, but it succeeds in getting the information sent, thanks for the update!

Hi again, just noticed that the plugin obviously stops scrobbling when one switches Songbird’s feathers to mini media player…

The only thing I miss from the normal Last.FM client is the “Love” button… .-.

It stopped scrobbling for me, first I thought it came because I had 0.8pre but now I'm running 0.7RC2 and the problems are still there. On Last.fm u can see what I'm listening at the moment but it doesn't scrobble. :(

It reads album name / artist name / title from just filename. I think it would be better if it reads from metadata. Most of my songs just have title as file name. Secondly, everyone follows different scheme to define filenames. Here in india its mostly album - title (cos movies has all of these songs. And artists are different)

Forget my comment 4 hours ago, I made a new profile and after some songs it started scrobbling. :D

This plugin doesn't work for me for some reason. Windows Vista OS.

never mind the last comment. :)

great, thanks for official support in 0.7 :o
great to see the developers spending so much time in the user's wishes.

Great addon! It even manages to scrobble over my workplace proxy, and they block last.fm...

Im having the same problem as 'Michael Marino' - I can see the song I play in the 'now playing' section on last fm, but then it fails to log it after that.....any help?

Great addon. But there should be an option that shoutcast streams are not going to be scrobbled.

I love it... even though after the first time I ran Songbird it stopped working.

Same as some people above, Now Playing in my Last.fm profile works, but no songs are scrobbled afterwards. This is an error I got on the Console, maybe someone will know what it actually means :D

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [sbIPlaybackHistoryService.entries]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/75voqbou.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js :: sbLastFm_scrobble :: line 684" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/75voqbou.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 684

Great add. Only one question. Can it log in to last.fm at startup?

I have the same issue as cron, on "enumerate(this._playbackHistory.entries,...".
Should I try disabling other extensions ?

@carnelain : it does log in at startup.

This just ain't working for me... Similarly to "mj84" and others on my last.fm profile it says "listening now", but fails to log that track after it has finished playing... Any ideas? (I've tried reinstalling, etc.)

Still not working after much playing around (uninstalling/reinstalling)... It did in version 0.6.x, which must mean it is not a network/firewall-type problem this end. It still just scrobbles "listening now". Will this Add-on be updated to rectify this problem?

Still not working... Perhaps someone can decipher this (the last.fm things in the error console):

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [sbIPlaybackHistoryService.entries]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/gtdfislu.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js :: sbLastFm_scrobble :: line 684" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/gtdfislu.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 684

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [sbIPlaybackHistoryService.entries]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/gtdfislu.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js :: sbLastFm_scrobble :: line 684" data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/XXX/Application%20Data/Songbird2/Profiles/gtdfislu.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 684

ipod scrobbling possible?

This still isn't working for me (it did in version 0.6.x). Some advice/help would be greatly appreciated...

:(

Still not working...

Is there a conflict with another Add-on?

I would really like to get this working (can you tell by the number of posts!?) as I rely heavily on last.fm and may migrate away from Songbird if it doesn't.

Hmmm, this is working now!?!? My workaround - remove ALL Songbird files, hidden 'n' all, in your home or docs and settings directory and start again. I guess there's a problem upgrading from 0.6.x to 0.7...

@aweller: Thanks!

I had this problem and thought I'd take your solution and see if I could get away with removing slightly less than everything! (Prior to your tip, I'd assumed it was a last.fm problem...)

After a bit of trial and error I discovered that the culprit is the Playback History database e.g. on Linux:

    cd /home/jdoe/.songbird2/pr0f1l3/
    mv db/playbackhistory@songbirdnest.com.db db/playbackhistory@songbirdnest.com.db.old

Then restart songbird, and voila! Back in the land of the scrobbling.

(Then file a bug report with songbird or this extension :-)

@chocolateboy: IT WORKS!

I deleted my Playback History, and i'm happily scrobbling once again. I'm using Windows XP SP3. For those who have the same problem, the location of the file is in this route:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Songbird2\Profiles\XXX.default\db

Then delete "playbackhistory@songbirdnest.com" and start Songbird. Enjoy!

This plugin doesnt work for me, it cant login. could it be caused by my username? computer_tom?

ive checked over and over but it doesnt work. Im using the beta songbird .7.0

in the error console i get: Error: l.onUserLoggedOutChanged is not a function
Source File: file:///home/ct/.songbird2/reiw1i9x.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 278

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: XStringBundle :: getString :: line 17" data: no]
Source File: file:///home/ct/.songbird2/reiw1i9x.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 202

Is spanish already translated? Coz if not, I could help with this one. :D

The new update scrobbles the track twice...
How come?

It was a bit hard to find where to put in my login info, but found it. :D

Any reason why Shoutcast streams are not scrobbled?

Hey there,
that was working for me since yesterday. but i'm getting "LOGIN FAIL" message now.

Error Log:
[last-fm] handshake got not enough lines: ["BADTIME", ""]

Any idea?

I've set a proxy server and it works.
audioscrobbler.net is blocked in my country!!

Works great! But I have to click "Log in to Last.fm.." everytime I start Songbird. Can that be fixed? I'm using SB 0.7.0 and this plugin, on Mac OS Tiger.

I would really love ipod scrobble support

New Songbird user here. The Last.fm addon works perfectly at the present time.

The last.fm plugin does not appear to work with shoutcast streams. The songs I listen to do not appear in my played listing, and loving a track on the radio makes the heart go solid for every song on the radio, none of which get entered into my last.fm profile.

Any plans to change this? I hate flash, so if I can get away from being stuck using the last.fm flash player, I'd be enormously happy.

Other than this, no complaints! Works as intended.

I repeatedly get a "Login Failed" error whenever I try to login using this add-on, but I'm able to login perfectly to the last.fm site when using browser.

Anyone else getting this problem?

Yes...I am having the exact same problem. Didn't have it until I upgraded to the 1.0rc though.

I would be nice if you could display a little 'Last Scrobbled' notification on the applet when you right click and it gives you a link to the profile. I use this to check my scrobbling is working.

A really nice addon, but I hope that there will be some last.fm options on the Services Panel, allowing to play our recommended radio or our neighbours ones

Fantastic app, works great. 1.0.0rc2, Build 842 on Mac.

Wish it would scrobble streaming songs from websites (say hypemachine) - just anything I'm listening to, even if it's not in my library.

I like to use songbird as a site specific browser for last.fm, and I think it would be awesome if this plugin also automagically signed me into the site. ;)

iPod scrobbling support would really make this add-on. It's the one thing that is keeping iTunes on my computer.

Can I configure this add-on for lastfm.ru? And how I can do it?

Yep, iPod scrobbling would be awesome!!!

I was wondering what the trigger is to submit it to the server? Like for the official Last.fm client you can set it anywhere from 50%-100% track length.

better solution with the last.fm scrobbler options

I love this plugin! I have a suggestion: Can we add the "Love" & "Ban" icons to Songbird's miniplayer? These icons are perfectly integrated into the main player and I think uses would appreciate not having to expand the mini player just to Love a track.

I have a suggestion/bug to report, everytime I'm listening to a song and I mark it as I love it. Next time I play the song, the heart icon doesn't show me if I have select it before or not. I'd like to find out which ones I've selected before or not.

thx for wonderful add-on, but could you add iPod scrobling support... tracks what i listen on iPod commit to the last.fm then I plug my player to the computer....

Hello, in Songbird 1.0 I only see "just played", not "now playing" like I used to see (show track while listening it, not after it). What could most likely cause this?

Sorry, my bad, it seems to be last.fm-sidebar-related problem. No probs, great plugin!!

How love tracks on Songbird?

i wish it would scrobble after a certain amount of time, just like the original last.fm client. i think it scrobbles after 50% or 4mins minimum. in songbird, i hardly get my mixtapes scrobbled, unless i listen to them til the end.

Seems this addon is a bit buggy with Now Playing. Sometimes as soon as I play a new track it will update my Now Playing, while other times an entire track will play and it's won't update.

Other than that, thanks :D

The plugin seems to scrobble my songs twice all of a sudden.
Is this a problem of the pugin? Or does it have to do something with the last.fm website?

Last.fm scrobbling support is amazing, unfortunately it doesn't always work. It appears to not be getting the track length from certain tracks played from a website (like hypem.com/popular ). It would be fantastic if I could scrobble tracks I'm listening to without having to download them.

@berror
Mine started to scrobble track even five times!!! I'm not sure what's happening, but if this doesn't change, I'm gonna have to turn the plugin off :|

It's good now - restarting Songbird helped.
@Paranoid_Android
To love current track on last.fm click on the heart icon on the right side of the track progress bar (next to the rating)

im a little confused on how to this to work
how do i set up my profile in songbird for last fm?

i'm having tracks scrobbled several times, even more than 20...
i have songbird 1.0.0, build 860 with plugin 0.3.3.882
is there any solution?

I've got the same problem - with many scrobbles of the same song. What's the deal?

i have a problem with this plugin, this plugin don`t conect to last fm :S help me

You have to activate your account in this addon first.
Click on the (red) last.fm logo in the bottom right corner of songbird (see screenshot) and enter your user name/pasword.

Hi,
First this is a really great plugin. But it seems not to scrobble the songs all the time. With this plugin I often experience the following on my last.fm profile page:
I play song1: It gets displayed correctly on last.fm
I play song2: It gets displayed on my profile page as well
I play song3: It shortly gets displayed on the page but then it gets removed and song2 is displayed instead. Then song3 will never be displayed again... If that happens the scrobbling won't work correctly until I restart songbird. That makes the plugin hardly unusable for me. Can somebody confirm that?

doesn't work with vista or is there something I'm missing?

McFlow, I have the same problem. Some songs get scrobbled, some don't... really annoying. Also, some songs disappear after a while. This addon is pretty hit and miss, sadly :-(

I'll try the other one.

Now I noticed what's going on. I only noticed NOW that you need to listen to half of a song for it to get scrobbled, lol!

Real-time-scrobbling still won't work. I mean the "listening now" -thingy. It just displays just now listened songs, afterwards. I need real-time scrobbling for last.fm-irc-script which uses this realtime-option. It seems that it wasn't a last.fm-sidebar-plugin -related problem. How to fix this?

Ah, the Now Listening thing sometimes doesn't work for me either.

I've noticed in the past few days, it is scrobbling like 10+ plays of each song I listen to. The time/date is all the same for each. I'm not stopping and restarting the songs either. I'm listening to an album through and on my page instead of showing 1 play for each song, it shows numerous plays! It used to not do that! Anyone else having this problem, and can it be fixed??

the problem is because it keeps disconnecting so it rly suck.

OK, this keeps scrobbling 2 plays of each song, which takes up all of my "Recently Played" section. Really annoying.

Anyone else have this problem?

I have normal scrobbles, it just won't always show real-time scrobbling. It seems this plugin has its own mind, it shows "playing just now" only sometimes, and when reseting playback (stop and then playing again). Btw, if it seems not to scrobble or keep logged in at all, check http://status.last.fm/

Agree with Rolle. Same here on Ubuntu 8.10 / Songbird 1.1

Forgot to say; I'm on OpenSUSE 11.0 / Songbird 1.1.

I have the same problem all the time, Rolle.

I have switched to Last.fm Scrobbling Support (another addon) because of this. This addon is really buggy (often disconnects from the servers, the Now Playing bug, double scrobbles sometimes...)

photon_man62: Yeh, me too. Only thing I'm not experienced is double scrobbles, but other than that it seems those bugs are real, I mean real-time-scrobbles and disconnects. I don't want to use Last.fm Scrobbling Support (even if I have it) because it shows "Now playing with Last.fm player". I'm proud of Songbird and I want it to show "Now playing on songbird"...

I'm having a problem with it saying "An error occurred communicating with last.fm servers" Is it last.fm being loosey goosey?

Can you please add support for submitting your songbird playlists to your last.fm profile?

Thanks

I too have been getting mupltiple scrobbles for a single song playing.
One song I listened too earlier today was scrobbled over 30 times! Other anywhere from 10 to 20.
Kinda sucks because it really threw off some of my stats, but oh well. Looks like I won't be using that function anymore.

The plugin keeps disconnecting very often.
It would be very useful if this plug in remembers what we have been listening and updates to our last.fm profile when it connects on the internet.

Is it possible ?

Does this extension really have offline caching now, as the description says, so that played songs get saved for scrobbling when we go back online? When was this added? I don't see it in the version history. This feature is the only reason I've been using the other Last.fm extension, but that extension seems to be having compatibility issues with the Ubuntu-repository version of Songbird. Also, what happened to the status bar time-to-scrobble feature mentioned early in the version history?

love the radio support

looking forward to seeing now/in the future:
-Offline scrobbling
-Time-to-scrobble timer

...as Veritasnoctis said.

Wow!!! This Last.fm Radio stream without using the web browser is a very good idea! Unfortunately most of the times it needs too much time to load a station even if I have high speed internet. Sometimes I have to wait and wait and wait.....and nothing happen. But sometimes it works pretty fast. Weird!
Anyway...I ad 5 stars! :P

Yeah, the last update is awesome! Now I can hear my lastfm music with my favorite music software.
Too bad you can't vote with 7 starts ;-)

Really bad news for non-usa, english or german people ...

(http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement)

"Today we’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change.

In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. There will be a 30 track free trial..."

A specialized containment unit made of as-yet-discovered synthetic materials will need to be constructed to contain the sheer awesomeness of what this plug-in has become. Thanks Steve.

@Alex: This is sux!! :(
I live is Canada so I have to pay monthly if I want to listen last.fm radio after March 30. Not because of the money (monthly 3EUR not a big deal), but because of the matter of principle. I can live without last.fm, but I'm sad because this great add-on what you made.

I guess all users will need a subscription to use third party streaming on PCs in future too according to a forum post at last.fm

@Hiromacu

It's not for this moment, but (when it will be active) I think to try a proxy in USA, UK or german to connect lastfm ;-)))

Yaay radio streaming. Great work and congrats to all involved!

Anyone else have to type their password and username in every time they restart Songbird?

last.fm radio is really good! Tx a lot!!

Hey man,

It would be awesome if you fixed some things related to offline mode:
1. When offline, scrobbling can't be disabled
2. When offline, there's a limit of scrobbles in the cache, and then it stops "remembering" other played tracks.

Thanks,

Alvaro

Anybody else having problems signing in? I just did a clean install of vista, reinstalled Songbird and this add-on. Now, when I type in my username and password, I get a message: "Login Failed". I know my password is correct, because I can log into Last.fm site.

I have the same problem as thomasroten:
I have to type the password and username in every time they restart Songbird. :(

Love the new streaming stuff but when I click the Last.fm icon in the left pane and the radio screen is displayed, is there any way that the bottom pannel (mashtape in my case) could stay expanded? Currently it is hidden but it would be useful to get the mashtape info for the current playing artist.

Don't worry the problem I said, is resolved. I'm really stupid cause I had activated "clean password" when close Songbird. :(

The last update is amazing - thanks!!

iPod scrobbling would be good.

Why doesn't the last.fm radio appear on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop? It's there on my Windows PC.

Hey guys! This is a very good lastfm implementation! I really like the lastfm radio features.

But, please, add a feature/option to exclude specific folders and files from being scrobbled automatically. (like podcasts or anything individual) If winamp can, then you can do it, too!

I get this every once in a while in error log:
[last-fm] Bad Session when posting to last.fm
Error: badsession is not a function
Source File: file:///home/rolle/.songbird2/wf4hgzn4.default/extensions/audioscrobbler@songbirdnest.com/components/sbLastFm.js
Line: 999

I cannot get into this add on to put in my log in details for Last.fm the options tab is greyed out. maybe it does not work with the current version of Songbird?

using Songbird 1.1.2
win vista 32bit servicepack 1

i can't login on last'fm - login fail every time with various accaounts - how i can debug it, or solve this problem???

It seems like a few other people are having the same issue as I am: I can't log on. I don't receive an error message, nothing happens at all. When I bring up Error Console, it says there are errors with lines 106 and 464.
I'm using ver. 1.1.2 on Vista.

A solution is much awaited. Thanks in advance.

Apparently I've scrobbled about 10,000 tracks in just over one week. A look at my recent history shows some tracks being scrobbled 2, 3 even up to 20 times.
I'm using Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042; Last.fm addon 0.4.0.1033; and the "Last.fm friends" addon.

I had the problem with tracks being troubled twice as well. It turned out that I had both last.fm add-ons installed and enabled at the same time, so the track got scrobbled through both. Just disable/uninstall one of them in the add-ons box, or exit the standalone app, or click the icon in the status bar, and it should work fine.

This might just be nitpicking, but is there anyway you could fix the horrible, pixelated Last.fm logo at the top of the radio pages? Here's a link to what it looks like (to me) as well as a replacement image which fixes the problem:

Old, Pixelated:

http://tinyurl.com/SongbirdOldFM

New, Hotness:

http://tinyurl.com/SongbirdFM

(Note: Is White On Transparent)

I've got the same problem that Manchelster describes above (won't login, last.fm extensions unresponsive). I'm also using 1.1.2 on Vista.
Just a guess, but could this have been caused by the last songbird update?

Great addon, love that I can listen to last.fm with Songbird. However, I have a few suggestions:
- Support for the new combo station feature
- Having the tag, shared, playlist buttons next to the love and ban ones.
- Also the ability to access said buttons while in the mini-player mode.
Thanks for all the great work!

This is a really, really great add-on. It's a pitty that I can't use it anymore, because of last.fm's restrictions towards anyone living outside of the USA, UK and Germany.

I've already reported this situation on get satisfaction: http://gsfn.us/t/3spu

So far I haven't had any question, so I'm insisting here.

My question is if SB can do anything about this situation?

I ask this because last.fm mentions something on their blog. They say: "Updating developers using our Radio API: third-party apps that stream Last.fm Radio will have full access to the Radio API, so streaming will work provided the user that logs in is a subscriber. (All other APIs remain free/unchanged)".

Can someone say anything about this?

Thanks!

I'd love to see this add-on made configurable to work with Libre.fm:
http://alpha.libre.fm/
http://ideas.libre.fm/index.php/Using_turtle

it was really good add-on

but i found similar one in http://music.ellamey.com

I have a problem with 1.2 beta with lastfm addon : when I add a tag for a song, it don't synchronise with my profile. Other settings works fine.
I use french language.

Thks for your help

Hello.

Could someone please confirm, if you have an _ (underscore symbol) within your Last.fm user I.D. this extension work? I am unable to log into the account via the add-on and I am trying to track down the problems.

Thanks...

Problem resolved. I have a new account minus the underscore, but the issue was due to...

"Last.fm cannot authorise any scrobbling! :(
It appears your computer disagrees with us about what the time is.
If you are sure the time is right, check the date is correct and check your timezone is not set to something miles away, like mars.
We're sorry about this restriction, but we impose it to help prevent scrobble spamming."

My new computer had the wrong date by one day...

Don't know why, but with the most current versions of Songbird (1.2) and this plugin, my last.fm streams stop playing after a few songs. Didn't notice it with the versions before?!

I can confirm, this plugin + Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146, plays 5 songs on a last.fm stream then stops.

+1 on Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030052) + this plugin = last.fm stream stops after a few songs.

Newest version under 1.2.0 won't "love" tracks any more.

Recently last.fm made an "improvement" and stops playing, after some time, asking user to click on "resume" button on the popup because they "don't want the music to fall upon deaf ears" (or something like that) - that is observed on firefox, songbird just stops playing.

So I'd like to ask for an improvement in this add-on. Why don't you track user activity (just like various IM clients do) and automatically restart playing of radio station if the user is active and last.fm has disconnected by itself - if the user has been inactive and comes back to "life" then he can restart radio by himself.

Nearly all the time I use computer for work and I like to have some music in the background (some radio station on last.fm) and often (when I'm busy) do not realize for some time that music stopped playing, then I have to switch to firefox/songbird to restart radio.

That would be nice improvement - at least IMHO :)

ENTITY lastfm.radio.subscriber.help is missing in german (maybe more) locale. Gives me a parsing error.
When fixing this error locally, I am although not able to listen to a radio stream.

I have the same error!!! :-(

Wait, why am I being told that I can't listen to Last.fm radio through Songbird now? The link to the blog post states that free radio will continue in the US.

Getting the lovely 'subscribers only' thing even though I'm in the US...

Hey, version 0.4.2.1161 don't let me log in....i'm using Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030043) what should i do?

If you listen to last.fm radio through an external client i.e. any other than the official one, you have to be a subscriber, otherwise it wont work. If you're in the US, UK or any other countries that last.fm allows unlimited streaming you can listen through their official client or through their website.

I don't think there's any way around this.

The last.fm add-on is lame. Why does it not allow one to list to their recommended, etc. lists? I can do this from other players without being a subscriber (e.g. Rhythmbox). Also, I'm in the UK and so the stupid thing should work without having to be a subscriber.

+1 to "I'm from the US so I should be able to use the radio."

If anyone is having problems connecting to last.fm since they upgraded please read here http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/22/radio-subscriptions

can you add something that add's 'loved' tracks to the metadata of the file or somewhere else in songbird library so that we can get the songs we loved easily instead of referring to the last.fm profile?

Same as stopthemjah. Can't login to last.fm with Songbird 1.2.0 and last.fm 0.4.2.1161.

Error console says (many times):

    [last-fm] handshake got not enough lines: ["BADAUTH", ""]

Songbird 1.2.0 plus Last.fm 0.4.2.1161 won't let me log in.

Same error as above:

[last-fm] handshake got not enough lines: ["BADAUTH", ""]

This is so great, but have you not yet fixed the delay? After couple of plays "Listening now" in Last.fm is "Just now" -listened, so it scrobbles one track behind, not in real time as it's supposed to scrobb. This is very annoying when using scripts that use last.fm's real time option, last.fm irssi nowplaying script for instance. This bug is currently on both linux (opensuse 11) and windows (xp sp3) machines. Please fix this! Thanks.

well.... i install a old version of Songbird [1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331142126)] and install the Last.fm plugin, it's work fine now, but with the songbird update stops working. i'll keep that old version for a while.

I'm having the same issue as the others.

[last-fm] handshake got not enough lines: ["BADAUTH", ""]

similar problem as scriptdaemon - except i'm not in the us but in germany.

Anyway. I should be able to listen to last.fm radio without a subscription. but it won't stop asking me for paying...

I'm shocked.
I have read this :
" NOTE: LAST.FM RADIO IS NOW FOR LAST.FM SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, see Last.FM's blog post for more information."
but I do not understand now why we can not access any page in last.fm songbird.
I understand that we can not access the radio but I do not understand why we are denied access to everything.
I noted that this 5-star addon, I decommissioning 1 star for not zero..

In addition to my last comment...

similar problem as scriptdaemon - except i'm not in the us but in germany. Anyway. I should be able to listen to last.fm radio without a subscription. but it won't stop asking me for paying...

...I have to state more precisely:

I can listen to Last.fm Radio via website WITHOUT a subscription (since I'm in Germany).

BUT if I log in via Songbird and try to listen to Last.fm Radio, the plugin demands me to subsribe.

<u>Maybe geolocating doesn't work with Songbird?</u>

I can't Log In :( about 3 days ago. Please, fix the bug. :S

I can't log in.

songbird : 1.2.0 build 1146
lastfm: 0.4.2.1161

please fix the bug.

I can't log in.
Switched to alternative: Last.fm scrobbling support addon and working but your addon is much better please fix the problem with logoin.

I realize that Last.fm has introduced a subscription service for those not in the mentioned countries.
But can't the addon still play without subscription for those of us in the US, UK or Germany? As mentioned in the addon notes - it geolocates by IP to country - so it knows where the it is being accessed from.