[ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Hi all,

my name is Andrea Grandi and I'm a member of Maemo Community since the first device appeared (Nokia 770).
To improve my Qt/C++ skills I'm developing a multimedia application called LastGo. It's a Last.fm client just like Vagalume.

You can view a screenshot here:

http://www.andreagrandi.it/wp-conten...716-222755.png

Currently the application is available in extras-testing with 0.2.1-4 version and needs testers.

The following features are available:

* Authentication with Last.fm webservice
* Play/Stop/Skip a song
* Update display with song's cover, title, album, artist
* Scrobble the listened song to Last.fm website

Please note the following limitation:

* Last.fm service requires to be a subscribed user to listen their music
* I cannot distribute a valid API key with the application due to an API restriction (but the user can download apikey.xml from this link and import it choosing "Import Api Key" from application menu).

In the next days I'm going to implement the following features:

* Contextual window to mark a song as Loved, Banned, ecc...
* Portrait mode UI
* Support more radio
* Internazionalization support
* Let the user choose if 64 or 128 kbit streaming
* Make scrobbling optional
* Add discovery option
* Add support for user's playlist (adding songs and playing)

of course if you have any idea you can file a feature request here: https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LastGo

Important: I need your FEEDBACK to improve this application. Please test it, vote/comment it in its extras-testing page and file any bug you can find using the Maemo bugzilla: https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LastGo

Complete source code is available here: http://gitorious.org/lastgo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Good work mate;)......keep it comming...gr8 App

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Thanks :)

Please test it if you can. I need users feedback to fix all bugs and improve it ;)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Good luck - and if you haven't already, please do take a look at the Mobbler project (Last.fm scrobbler / client for S60v3/5).

A brilliant app with some enviable features I would gladly see on Maemo / Meego.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I already have an API key generated by the website - how do I import it?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

donwload this http://gitorious.org/lastgo/lastgo/b...tGo/apikey.xml

and substitute my values with your values, then save the file and copy on your N900. Once you've copied, choose "Import Api Key" from LastGo's application menu.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Excellent app! just tried it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Thanks Yuko! More features incoming, so stay tuned :)
I'm doing my best, but it's my first Qt/C++ application ;)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

i have already tried that and am getting 'api key does not have permission to stream' I'm pretty sure I haven't had a problem with the key before.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ok I have done that - now it says there is a 'server error - please try that again'. I have signed out of lastfm on my PC and restarted my phone no effect. Do you have any idea what might be causing it?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

are you sure you are a Last.fm subscriber? Streaming API are only available for subscribed users: http://www.lastfm.it/api/radio

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ah yes - a case of reading the microscipic print! I am not a paid subscriber (yet) which is why the API does not function.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

a "server error" ? Uhm... it's not in the error list neither: http://www.lastfm.it/api/errorcodes so I don't think it's a "managed" error. I think I'll have to investigate better on this.

Could you please open a bug here: https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LastGo so I can keep track of it? Thanks!
Please report any details, step by step the operation you try to do, if you're connected to internet ecc...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

could you please do a test for me? Please try to install Vagalume application (it's in Maemo-Extras) and try if it works. I see from the signature that you lives in UK and streaming should be free there (but only using the official applicatiion, not 3rd party application... but please try anyway).

Thanks!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

OK I installed Vagalume but I do not have a libre.fm account and it is asking me for username / password which of course I don't have. There is no option to change libre.fm to last.fm so of course when I try to connect I get "Network Connection Error". I get this using WiFi or my phone network's data service.

Do you know how to change the service?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

because neither Vagalume can distribute the API Key on a mobile phone :) It has a similar functionality... in their case you need to import this: http://gitorious.org/vagalume/vagalu...servers.xml.in (rename .xml )

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

OK thanks for the file. I imported it successfully but on pressing play I get 'network error' and I can be pretty well assured that password is correct. This makes me suspect a problem with my phone but I can connect to and play last.fm fine through browser and so I don't know what it could be.

I submitted a bug at your request

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Let's try to understand better your problem, but please do these tests I tell you:

1) Test both LastGo and Vagalume and tell me if this error happens with both clients.

2) open a terminal on your N900 and try this: mv /home/user/.config/LastGo/LastGo.conf /home/user/.config/LastGo/LastGo.conf.bak

shortly: this renames the configuration file, so you'll have to import api key again, insert username/password again and a NEW SESSION KEY will be requested.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I tried it but still using Vagalume.
My only complaints are the lack of fast shortcuts for next, love and ban tracks.

I've made some suggestion for Vagalume's developer, and if you think they're good, you can put it at LastGo andy80:

shortcuts: skip track with right arrow, stop with left, love track with up and ban with down.

song name: make espeak says the name of song and artist, since we'll listen to new songs wich we don't know what is.

You're at the car, or at bed, not looking at n900/device itself, these two tips becomes useful.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

please open a feature request here: https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LastGo
one for each request (at least don't mix espeak with shortcuts ecc...).

Except this missing features, the client works?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ok - I copied and pasted your text into XTerm and renamed the file. I then went to LastGo and I got a request to re-import the API Key. I did this and was prompted to enter my username and password (which I did). I then got the message "server error - please try that again".

I have repeated the process for Vagalume and I just get "network error".

Many thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

You followed my instruction in a perfect way. The only thing I cannot explain is: why it still doesn't work?

If, for some reason, you had some problem with subscription, the client would say "You need to be subscribed ecc...". But it says "server error" that is not something I explicitly write in the status.

I cannot explain.... do you have any connection problems with your N900? How much signal UMTS/WIFI do you have when you click Play button?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

The WiFi signal is at 100% but interestingly I get the same issue if I use the provider network (I think you call this GPRS) but not if I access the website and play the tracks from there.

Could it be that LastFM has a means to prevent mobiles accessing content in this way which has not been considered? I see there are others for whom this works, so if any of them are reading perhaps they might offer an explanation?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I don't know if Last.fm has a way to prevent users from using a mobile connection for last.fm streaming.

All I know is that I can use LastGo (or Vagalume) both with my home's wifi connection and with my "3" ThreeHG UMTS connection (even if it's not allowed by them).

Are you having this problem both with wifi and with umts? Or just with UMTS?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I am having problems with both

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

at the moment, the only way for me to understand why you have that problem is trying to insert more debugging code (and maybe let LastGo to log it into a .txt file) into the application and make a new "experimental" release as soon as I can.

I wish I had more feedback from other users, to understand if this is only your problem or if it's a common one.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ok well thanks for your support so far - one question though, can you generate a new API key somehow on lastfm? Maybe I can try that?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I'll come back with some feedback as well soon. Just reflashing my device.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

You can ask for a new API here: http://www.lastfm.it/api/account
but I don't think this will fix your problem...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ok I can report that I can play my Last FM library through Vagalume 0.8.3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

I can explain why: Vagalume also support the OLD (unsupported) Api. This allow UK, USA, Germany people to listen Last.fm for free.

Last.fm has not disabled the old API yet, and I find this very un-fair for new developers that want to create a new client.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Interesting app, I'm in the UK but at work my internet traffic goes out of another country.

I have a (authentictaed) proxy at home for such purposes. Vagalume supports a proxy, but unfortunately lastgo doesn't appear to yet.

Is this something that can be added to the wish list...

Thanks!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Does that mean I can use the LastFM api key I have on Vagalume? If so how do I do that because the api file you gave me to import to lastgo cannot be read by Vagalume?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

We (LastGo and Vagalume) use a different format for our apikey files. You've to manually edit those files and substitute the strings.

But I REPEAT: it's useless you use a different api key. The problem is not the API KEY, the problem is that I'm using the NEW APIs while Vagalume uses the OLD ONE that allow to stream for free. Those api are UNDOCUMENTED, I cannot use them, and I don't know how to use them.

So, please, don't spend time trying to mess with apikey files, it's pretty useless.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Ok well thanks for trying. Shame really, but I will just have to use the website. Never mind.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

So this only works for paid subscribers? Not for the free ones?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

exactly. It's not a my restriction, but a last.fm restriction.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Phew, good I caught that before I downloaded it :)
I'm using Vagalume and loving my free music.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Vagalume is using the old protocol API, but it (the old protocol) will be disabled soon.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LastGo 0.2.1 - Last.fm client for MeeGo and Maemo
 

Thanks for the app....
No problems so far - looking forward to the new features.