Thanks for your help Richard I am now asking in the Ubuntu forums about where I might find the system wide proxy. James
Richard Cutts wrote: > I have limited knowledge but if firefox was ignoring your hosts file > when set to "System Proxy Setting" and changing to "No proxy" changed > it's behaviour then I assume you must have a system wide proxy set up. I > also assume that Amarok and Banshee will be using the system proxy settings. > > I don't know much about proxy settings in linux. I imagine there are > different configuration GUIs for different distros and desktop environments. > > Sorry I can't help more. > > > > 2009/4/27 Bananabob in Paradise <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > If I set Firefox to" No Proxies". I get to the libre.fm > <http://libre.fm> website. So I > don't believe it to be a router proxy, but I don't really know for sure. > Firefox was set to use "system proxy settings". > > I still need more advice please. > Cheers > James > > Richard Cutts wrote: > > If Firefox is sending you to that page then the redirection isn't > working. > > Maybe there is a proxy on your router that has it's own host file? > > > > 2009/4/27 Bananabob in Paradise <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> > > > > I have tried both Amarok 1.4.9 and Banshee 1.4.3. I can get > neither of > > them to work with libre.fm <http://libre.fm> <http://libre.fm> > > > > Here is my entry in etc/hosts > > > > # The following line is to ensure that Amarok sends playlists to > > libre.fm <http://libre.fm> <http://libre.fm> not last.fm > <http://last.fm> <http://last.fm> > > 89.16.177.55 post.audioscrobbler.com > <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> > > > > I have also tried it with > > 89.16.177.55 ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > > > Here are the results from a ping > > $ ping post.audioscrobbler.com > <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> > > PING post.audioscrobbler.com <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> > <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55) 56(84) bytes of data. > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 > > time=300 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 > > time=311 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 > > time=299 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=4 ttl=42 > > time=304 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=5 ttl=42 > > time=303 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=6 ttl=42 > > time=299 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=7 ttl=42 > > time=298 ms > > 64 bytes from ws.audioscrobbler.com > <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> <http://ws.audioscrobbler.com> > > (89.16.177.55): icmp_seq=8 ttl=42 > > time=300 ms > > > > --- post.audioscrobbler.com <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> > <http://post.audioscrobbler.com> ping > > statistics --- > > 9 packets transmitted, 8 received, 11% packet loss, time 8003ms > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 298.244/302.058/311.563/4.152 ms > > > > and when I use Firefox and put in http://post.audioscrobbler.com > > I get the following results > > > > http://post.audioscrobbler.com/ shows in the URL bar > > and the following is the webpage information displayed > > > > Audioscrobbler submissions system. > > http://www.audioscrobbler.net/ > > > > I have changed my userid and password in both pieces of > software, but > > they refuse to connect with a server. > > > > I assume that They are still going to last.fm <http://last.fm> > <http://last.fm>. My > > question is why? There > > seem to be several reports of Amarok 1.4 working, that is why > I thought > > I would try Banshee. But that doesn't work for me either. > > > > I have something else wrong I know it, but what? > > > > Cheers > > James > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libre-fm mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libre-fm mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
