Last.fm/Scrobbler suggestion

[smc2911]

Not sure if this has been suggestion before, but it would be great to be able to create some lastfm stations directly using the remote rather than the WebUI. While entering characters directly would be a bit of a pain, if there was some way to browse to an artist in your library (perhaps linked into erlands Custom Browse in some way) and then fire up similarartists radio.

On another topic (and I'm sure that this has been mentioned before, but couldn't seem to find it again), when playing lastfm radio, accented characters don't display correctly on the squeezebox.

Anyway, love the plugins.

[Craig, James \(IT\)]

Yes, I've seen the problem with the accented characters, but I don't
understand why it occurs, as the same characters display correctly in
the web interface.

I guess you can link to lastfm via the library using a custom mixer
link, but I've never looked at that bit of code - are there any plugins
that do something like this already?

James

[smc2911]

Not sure. Maybe erland could help. Sorry about just being a suggester not a coder!

[erland]

I guess you can link to lastfm via the library using a custom mixer
link, but I've never looked at that bit of code - are there any plugins that do something like this already?

TrackStat - Adds a mixer that show TrackStat statistics for the selected albums, artist, genre, year in the browse menus.

Dynamic Playlist - Adds a mixer that shows dynamic playlists that take a album, artist, genre, year as parameter. When the user selects a playlist the selected album, artist, genre, year from the browse menu is automatically sent as parameter.

Custom Skip - Adds a skip filter based on the selected album, artist, genre, year in the browse menu.

I think I looked at the MusicMagic plugin when I implemented the above, but if you have any specific question just ask.

Another solution is to use the Custom Browse plugin. In this case it means that the functionality will only be available in the browse menus implemented by the Custom Browse plugin. Custom Browse includes implementation of all standard SlimServer browse menus besides the Music Folder menu, plus a lot of other different browse menus. There are two ways to integrate with the Custom Browse plugin:

1. You can get menus accessible in same was as standard mixers by either:
- Providing a function which takes three parameters: $client, $item, $addonly
- Providing a "mode" which you like to enter when the mixer is launched. To get support in the web interface in this case, you also provide an url.

2. You can access the functionality by right clicking if you provide a "mode" which you like to enter when the user clicks the right button. But I think you want to use the mixer functionality described in point 1 instead, since it will make the functionality available in all menus not just a specific LastFM menu.

Custom Browse also requires a xml configuration file. If you want to go the Custom Browse way there is more information available in the Custom Browse documentation on my wiki:
http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index...._Browse_plugin

[smc2911]

A couple more ideas:

* Ability to play individual tracks like lastfm://play/tracks/46937904 (if I paste a link, a random track plays, unrelated to copied link).

* Use the Web Services to pull down the list of friends to allow selection of friends radio by browsing rather than direct entry of the user name.

[Craig, James \(IT\)]

Interesting, does the first link work anywhere outside of the LastFM
player?

I'm doing some work on the plugins at the moment and better integration
with the web site is on my list.
I'm working on CLI access to the plugin at the moment... Meant to post a
message about that...

James
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[smc2911]

If I just click on the link it plays in the lastfm player locally without a problem (i.e. correct track). If I cut & paste into the SS lastfm WebUI it doesn't.

[Craig, James \(IT\)]

Yes, I realise that (I wouldn't really expect it to work in the plugin,
I've made no allowances for URLs like that),
but I wonder if LastFM will let the plugin (or anyone else) play
individual tracks.

Seems quite surprising given the restrictions that usually exist around
this sort of thing...

James
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[smc2911]

What's interesting is that via the WebUI I do get something playing (i.e. doesn't fail completely), it just seems pretty random.

[James]

I just tried it, and it played exactly the right track!

I just pasted the line lastfm://play/tracks/95114875
into the station box and hit play...

The Doors – Roadhouse Blues (Live In Boston - 1st Show)

James