On Jun 14, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > I got this working today; and found it has pros and cons over James' > third-party plugin. I can't decide which one is best to use now! > > 1. Both automatically set "Repeat Playlist" mode. I was hoping the > new official plugin may have found a better way around this issue, > because it's annoying - I have to remember to turn repeat playlist > mode off after listening to last.fm.
This should not be the case, the previous repeat setting is reset when you play something else. > 2. I like the way I can navigate into a playing last.fm song and > from there select to love, ban or browse the artist. When browsing > the artist, I can select to play similar artists radio or top fans > radio, read the artist biography or browse similar artists or tags. > > 3. I noticed that Artist Biography was truncated when reading in the > player UI. I tried this in WebUI (Default skin) and seemed okay. > However, the artist had changed. I haven't reproduced the truncated > text on PlayerUI since. > > 4. I miss the history of played last.fm songs. It would be nice to > see the history of the last n songs in the current playlist and be > able to browse them. I could see about doing this, but is it that useful? You can't love/ ban a track after it has played since it has already been scrobbled. > 5. It doesn't seem possible to configure favorite last.fm stations > in the plugin. It's a different way of working, as the new plugin > allows searches on artist name or tag name, and from the results, > add that artist or tag as a favorite. From favorites, I can click on > the item (eg. an artist name), and it brings up the last.fm artist > menu options, from which it is possible to "Play Similar Artists > Radio". It doesn't seem to provide a direct link to start playing > the similar artists radio as a favorite. I am used to going into > last.fm plugin and selecting one of my favorite stations (could be > an artist, tag, user name, etc) and it would start playing. I think > last.fm configured favorites should appear in the last.fm menus, and > any "play lastfm radio" links should be allowed to be stored as SC > favorites. There's no specific "Last.fm favorites", but you can add them to your standard list of favorites. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
