To hear Iain tell it, it's a pain in the neck since there are some strange protocol behavior you have to work around..
sri On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:11:01PM +1000, James Doc Livingston wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 11:43 +0300, Eetu Huisman wrote: > > While browsing through the archives I found a couple of messages about > > adding support for playing last.fm stations in Rhythmbox. Has anyone > > started working on this? I'd be willing to to take part in the > > development of this feature, but my C skills are poor at best. > > > > I found a perl script which does "reverse engineer" the lastfm-protocol > > at http://www.last.fm/forum/21714/_/42540. I guess it might be useful, > > though I haven't had time to go through it myself just yet. > > Another program to look at would be Last Exit, > http://www.o-hand.com/~iain/last-exit/. > > Playing last.fm streams shouldn't be too hard, as it is mostly the same > as normal streaming audio. From what I recall, the two main differences > are doing some login stuff to get the stream URL, and that it sends a > "SYNC" signal in band to indicate that updated stream info (track title > an artist) is available. > > > > Has anyone thought about the UI? Should there be "love" and "ban" buttons? > > That would make sense to me, as they are done via http as with login. > > > Cheers, > > James "Doc" Livingston > -- > "If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I > hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support > him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of > the house and not part of my family." -- Steve Wozniak > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel -- _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
