Hello

I've got a question/request for all you plugin creators. Please excuse me if it has been asked before, I didn't find anything about it in the search.

I was wondering if it would be possible to create a plugin that would enable foobar to play last.fm radio streams.

like lastfm://user/username/recommended
and lastfm://user/username/neighbours

To me a component like this would greatly enhance my foobar experience. For instance I now have buttons in my config which enable me to start my last.fm recommendations and neighbours radio streams in the last.fm client software, but I would much prefer to only have to use foobar for this.

My guess is that the radio streams are just your average audio streams, and foobar just doesn't know what to do with the lastfm:// protocol.

Is there anyway to do this or are changes in foobar itself necessary to achieve this?

Thanks

You can use LastFMProxy:
but standalone plugin will be a great stuff..

Cheers, I didn't know about that one. It works really well I love the little web interface that comes with it. Now if only foobar could display html
Thanks for the link

Wow, LastFMProxy is great. I modified it so that it also download the cover so that you can show it in an album art panel. The only problem now is that skip doesnt respond very quickly. Now i ll have to do a special skin when playing lastfm radio

Thanks a lot

Could you explain how to make it download the album art? That would be great

Im finding that it's a bit slow getting the information, any one else finding this?

Same as you FofR here, skip doesnt even work for me, yet next does the trick but sometimes the infos goes nuts as the album art.

Here is my version which download the album art in the data folder of lastfmproxy. It creates either a folder.jpg or a folder.gif but there is always just one of them. The only problem right now is that it does it really often as there is no really a change track function.

LastFMProxyCarmenmod

In your mod it would be nice to set as a variable the location of the image, rather than have it set to "C:/Program Files/lastfmproxy/data/folder.jpg"

Here you are

lastfmproxycarmenmmod

Great, Thanks

Here's a batch script I have associated with a global keyboard shortcut, starting the proxy and loading the playlist:

start main.py
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 -w 1000 > nul
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 -w 1000> nul
lastfm.m3u

The ping waits 10 seconds for proxy to setup before loading the m3u file, which has been saved in the same directory as the proxy.
Having some toubles getting images to work though.

Or you can try this:
http://www.last.fm/group/LastFMProxy/journal/2005/08/27/8981

Or simply to just hide the command line window:


Or non-permanently:

start C:\python25\pythonw.exe main.py
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 -w 1000 > nul
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 -w 1000> nul
lastfm.m3u

(risk of having multiple instances, not sure how to kill off previous processes from the command line yet)
EDIT: taskkill /F /IM pythonw.exe (put it at the start)

what do you mean by troubles?

I created batch files that i associated with shortcuts to love/skip/
using a windows version of wget..

wget http://localhost:1881/skip
wget http://localhost:1881/ban
wget http://localhost:1881/love

and a few to let it report my plays or not using the following

wget http://localhost:1881/nortp
wget http://localhost:1881/rtp

hi carmenm, do you have a version that works with 1.3b of lastfmproxy?

or could you tell us how to do the album art trick?

thanks in advance

A complete component doing that in Foobar would be awesome.

Yeah, this would be great. Any word on anyone working on such a project, or if it's even possible?

Take a look here.. awesome:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=65586

Thanks for the link but it seems to work only with the latest foobar version.