Amarok and last.fm

morecowbell · 2009-09-30 01:51:59

The newest version of Amarok does not stream last.fm streams for me. It keeps saying only paying subscribers can use streams but when i roll back to version 2.1.1-1, the streams work correctly. Am i doing something wrong? I flipped back and forth a few times and i use the same configurations for both. Anyone else have this problem? Is it just me?

SamC · 2009-09-30 02:02:04

You get a certain amount of songs for free. The latest version presumably takes the easy way out and just disables them outright.

ChemBro · 2009-09-30 07:06:48

morecowbell wrote:

The newest version of Amarok does not stream last.fm streams for me. It keeps saying only paying subscribers can use streams but when i roll back to version 2.1.1-1, the streams work correctly. Am i doing something wrong?

No. Your switching between the old liblastfm and the new and official open-source liblastfm. I don't know how long the old one will play streams, though.

morecowbell · 2009-10-01 04:15:11

I don't think there is a limit on the songs, I play quite a few.

The old version of amarok (2.1.1-1) that plays the lastfm streams correctly doesn't use liblastfm, but it is a dependency of the new amarok that works incorrectly. So an implementation internal to amarok was replaced by this liblastfm right?

ChemBro wrote:
I don't know how long the old one will play streams, though.

Well the new one doesn't work at all so if the old one stops working, I have no options left.

Last edited by morecowbell (2009-10-01 04:15:50)

ChemBro · 2009-10-01 07:01:02

morecowbell wrote:

Well the new one doesn't work at all so if the old one stops working, I have no options left.

The new one does work. You need to be a subscriber for the streams (which I am). Scrobbling worked for me without subscribing. That's a term of Last.fm for using their liblastfm. You can also use the webplayer on their site.

morecowbell · 2009-10-01 19:29:08

The forum at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=81059 seems to explain lastfm's policy changes if anyone else is interested.

I don't want to pay for a subscription and i think the webapp is annoying so I'll see if i can find some alternatives. Bye Bye lastfm

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#1 2009-09-30 01:51:59

Amarok and last.fm

#2 2009-09-30 02:02:04

Re: Amarok and last.fm

#3 2009-09-30 07:06:48

Re: Amarok and last.fm

#4 2009-10-01 04:15:11

Re: Amarok and last.fm

#5 2009-10-01 07:01:02

Re: Amarok and last.fm

#6 2009-10-01 19:29:08

Re: Amarok and last.fm

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