Bug 143868

Summary:	Please add last.fm "recommended radio"
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Mikael Nilsson <mini>
Component:	Playlists/Saved Playlists	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde-bugzilla
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0-SVN
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Patch to add "Recommended radio" to the lastfm streams

Description Mikael Nilsson 2007-04-05 11:08:25 UTC

Version:           1.4.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

There's no automatic entry for "Recommended" last.fm radio. It's easy to add manually if you know how, but an inexperienced user might never find out how.

Example

lastfm://user/m94mni/recommended/100

It's the station I use all the time...

Comment 1 Mikael Nilsson 2007-04-05 11:10:21 UTC

Ubuntu bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/amarok/+bug/103227

Comment 2 Mark Kretschmann 2007-04-05 11:35:03 UTC

Why would you file an Ubuntu bug for this? Do you expect the Ubuntu packagers will hack this feature into Amarok? Close it.

Regarding your idea: I've just tried this radio, and the songs that came up were *totally* unrelated to my musical taste. In fact it was stuff I really dislike, Metal, Rap, etc. I don't see why this was "recommended"; seemed random to me.

So I think this is a rather useless addition.

Comment 3 Stefan Fleiter 2007-04-05 13:45:42 UTC

For me and many of my friends the Recommended station is the favourite one.
I don't know why it does not function for you, maybe your database of listened
songs at last.fm is not big enough, but for many it does function very well.

So please add this station.

Comment 4 Mikael Nilsson 2007-04-05 13:50:39 UTC

Well, I can see the point for not adding it specifically for the Ubuntu build, even though it should be a 10-line patch.

That's why I've reported it upstream.

Comment 5 Mark Kretschmann 2007-04-05 14:06:10 UTC

Well OK, if you say this station normally works better, maybe we'll give it a try.

Comment 6 Daniel Hahler 2007-12-31 19:44:08 UTC

Created attachment 22785 [details]
Patch to add "Recommended radio" to the lastfm streams

Comment 7 Stefan Fleiter 2008-01-01 18:01:24 UTC

Thanks for the patch dAniel, I hope the Amarok team will accept it.

Comment 8 Harald Sitter 2008-04-12 15:30:53 UTC

New string and new feature don't qualify for the 1.4 because it is in feature freeze.
Amarok 2 howerver has a completely rewritten last.fm integration and also features the recommended radio (if you have enough recommendations apparently).