Bug 143868 - Please add last.fm "recommended radio"
Summary: Please add last.fm "recommended radio"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: Playlists/Saved Playlists (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0-SVN
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-04-05 11:08 UTC by Mikael Nilsson
Modified: 2008-04-12 15:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Patch to add "Recommended radio" to the lastfm streams (766 bytes, patch)
2007-12-31 19:44 UTC, Daniel Hahler
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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).