Comments on: Last.fm + Ubuntu

By: Canadug

Canadug — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:58:52 +0000

I’m a newb to Ubuntu and have been porting as many of my apps from XP. I’m glad you had Ubuntu in the title cause that’s what I was searching for. Doing a search for last.fm + linux is too generic for me. Besides that allows Trevor to supply a super helpful link on Ubuntu distributions!! Keep up the good work and pay no attention to the so called non-newbs. :P

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:26:54 +0000

Hi, you might like to check some unofficial Debian (sarge, etch) and Ubuntu (dapper, edgy) packages of Last.fm 1.1.3.0

They run with no problems and include some extra features not found in the upstream version.

You can download them and get more info here:

http://people.igalia.com/berto

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:19:00 +0000

Hiya,

you might also want to take a look at ‘last-exit’, it’s an OS Last.fm player that’s also in the repos. Cool thing about it was it had a ‘save’ button, so when you heard something you liked you could just save the mp3. They may have changed that now in the prebuilt repo version, but that’s the joy of having source code ;)

Also, for browsing and searching the software available the simple ‘add/remove’ app is pretty cool, should be at the bottom of your launcher list.

By: Gus

Gus — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:12:38 +0000

On windows, last.fm client integrates into players like winamp or mediamonkey, allowing I to mark a song like Favorite o not.
I couldn’t find this option on linux (Ubuntu edgy here too ;). I mean, the client has this option, but how to integrate into players?
I like to listen my music using “Listen”, Beep Media Player or others, and I would like to mark them like Favorite or not.
Is it possible in linux client?

Thanks!

PD: Another great software for recommending is MusicMagic aka MusicIP.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:36:44 +0000

Nice post. Thanks. After reading it, I went to Add/Remove in Ubuntu and installed, typed in Scrob. Added last.fm with a problem

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:05:13 +0000

Thanks for the link (and the positive comment!) – it IS a long webpage! I’ve bookmarked that one for future reference. Nice to see they have Feisty list as well.

By: trevor manternach

trevor manternach — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:50:15 +0000

If you are talking about Ubuntu repos, http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/allpackages should be everything (warning: big webpage!).

Don’t worry about the pissy people. It’s your blog, you can post whatever you want. Keep it up!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:46:22 +0000

Why is it a crime for me to put Ubuntu in the title? I can assure you it wasn’t for ‘hits’…

I just don’t get the negativity? I *use* Ubuntu… and I’m aware I could compile this in any flavor of Linux – but I don’t use any flavor – I use Ubuntu.

And while this may have been in the repos since the beginning of time – I was unaware of it until I visited the Last.fm site.

Is there a site where you can search for programs within the repository?

By: devnet

devnet — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:25:42 +0000

Nice ‘Ubuntu’ lead to get more hits. Funny thing about this is you can compile this program in ANY linux distro to get it to work. We’ve had this in the repos (non-debian distro I use) for a VERY long time…since version 1.0.

Another thing, you don’t need the client to scrobble…you can use Amarok. And the latest version (Which isn’t available for Ubuntu) enables all the things that the last.fm client does…tagging, streaming neighbors radio, streaming your own stuff, etc…by default.

Amarok is the answer.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:16:31 +0000

Thanks for the positive comments. I’m aware that yes it probably will run on any flavor of Linux but *I* use Ubuntu and I installed Last.fm on Ubuntu – hence the title.

I’m sorry you felt the article was ‘crap’ but that is easily resolved… don’t read my blog.