LastamaroK 0.4.0 review

LastamaroK allows to play last.fm radios ( http://last.fm/ ) in amaroK, and to use some basic controls as love/skip/ban. Lastamar

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 30K Developer: Florian Bir?e

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LastamaroK allows to play last.fm radios ( http://last.fm/ ) in amaroK, and to use some basic controls as love/skip/ban.

LastamaroK can be integrated in both Konqueror and Firefox.

More informations about using LastamaroK are in the Readme.

LastamaroK is based on the lastFMProxy by Vidar Madesn ( http://vidar.gimp.org/?page_id=50 ).

Requirements:
amaroK
python
Tkinter

Usage:

First, you need to put yours last.fm user name and password in the amaroK configuration windows (Settings > Configure amaroK... > Last.fm).

Second, run the lastamarok script (Tools > Script Manager > lastamarok > Run), and click in the Configure button to choose your station. You can found URLs in the radio page. Copy an URL by clicking right > copy link location, and past it in the configure form. Next, click save to close the windows.

In the configure window, you can also change the port used (default is 1882), and set yours proxy settings (fill proxy user and proxy password only if needed - lastamarok support only basic authentication).

Finally, you can click play to listen your radio.

You can tune to your neighbour radio, skip, ban or love a track by clicking right on the track in the playlist > lastamarok.

This script was tested with amaroK 1.3.8 and 1.4.

What's New in This Release:
Add a second (or more) entry in the playlist for using the Amarok forward button.
Add a hitory of recent played radio
New 'Record to profil' option