James,

well after all of my grief yesterday, I guess I owe you some thoughtful
feedback, so here it is: this is working great, I love it.

The main annoyance is one I suspect you can do nothing at all about,
which is the inherent delay in some of the commands (we just have to
remind ourselves of the magic that's being worked here... a
personalised radio station coming over the internet, as opposed to the
comparatively easy task of picking a file off a local disc!)

James Wrote: 
> Phil,
> the reason station names you enter have 'neighbours' added on the end
> is because that's the only option available to non-subscribers. If you
> are a subscriber you get to choose neighbour or personal versions of
> the stations.
> 
> 

... agreed, but the plugin also adds "neighbours" to, for example,
"artists/dido/similarartists" on the webpage listing, which is
confusing and I think unnecessary (doesn't show on the SB2 screen
options list)

Other notes:

- thanks for the minor usability improvements as I requested!

- as commented earlier by Phil, the Up and Down keys on the remote are
hypersensitive ... actually I think they are set to repeat on hold,
which may be unnecessary (NB this refers to the menu which includes
press play to love/skip etc... the station selector menu is fine)

- a little whle ago I had a drop out, from which the plugin had a good
go at recovering (hooray!) - unfortunately, although it appears to be
playing in the log, there's no sound after the recovery and the time
counter on soft squeeze is not advancing (actually alternating between
15:52 and 15:53 !!). Log extract:

2005-10-18 08:01:11.9772 LastFM: Connecting to
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/np.php?session=d4a2c17ed2812403b37988e44073b3e0
2005-10-18 08:01:12.0388 LastFM: Setting timer for 60 seconds for
1b:e3:fa:2a:94:e8
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1554 LastFM: streaming = true
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1562 LastFM: discovery = 0
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1567 LastFM: station = Global Tag Radio: Smooth
Jazz
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1573 LastFM: artist = Lee Ritenour
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1579 LastFM: artist_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Ritenour
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1584 LastFM: track = Waiting In Vain (Edited
Version)
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1591 LastFM: track_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Ritenour/_/Waiting+In+Vain+%28Edited+Version%29
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1601 LastFM: album = Waiting In Vain
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1607 LastFM: album_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee%20Ritenour/Waiting%20In%20Vain
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1614 LastFM: albumcover_small =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/50x50/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1620 LastFM: albumcover_medium =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/130x130/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1626 LastFM: albumcover_large =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/130x130/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1632 LastFM: trackduration = 232
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1638 LastFM: trackprogress = 43
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1645 LastFM: radiomode = 1
2005-10-18 08:01:12.1651 LastFM: recordtoprofile = 1
2005-10-18 08:01:56.0519 LastFM: Setting timer for 60 seconds for
00:04:20:05:b5:39
2005-10-18 08:02:12.0483 LastFM: Connecting to
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/np.php?session=d4a2c17ed2812403b37988e44073b3e0
2005-10-18 08:02:33.0621 LastFM: Connect to lastfm failed!
2005-10-18 08:02:33.0621 LastFM: Setting timer for 60 seconds for
1b:e3:fa:2a:94:e8
2005-10-18 08:02:56.0559 LastFM: Setting timer for 60 seconds for
00:04:20:05:b5:39
2005-10-18 08:03:33.0699 LastFM: Connecting to
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/np.php?session=d4a2c17ed2812403b37988e44073b3e0
2005-10-18 08:03:33.0955 LastFM: Setting timer for 60 seconds for
1b:e3:fa:2a:94:e8
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2064 LastFM: streaming = true
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2073 LastFM: discovery = 0
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2079 LastFM: station = Global Tag Radio: Smooth
Jazz
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2086 LastFM: artist = Lee Ritenour
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2092 LastFM: artist_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Ritenour
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2105 LastFM: track = Waiting In Vain (Edited
Version)
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2111 LastFM: track_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee+Ritenour/_/Waiting+In+Vain+%28Edited+Version%29
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2117 LastFM: album = Waiting In Vain
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2124 LastFM: album_url =
http://www.last.fm/music/Lee%20Ritenour/Waiting%20In%20Vain
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2130 LastFM: albumcover_small =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/50x50/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2136 LastFM: albumcover_medium =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/130x130/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2142 LastFM: albumcover_large =
http://83.142.226.211/coverart/130x130/22088.jpg
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2176 LastFM: trackduration = 232
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2182 LastFM: trackprogress = 184
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2207 LastFM: radiomode = 1
2005-10-18 08:03:33.2213 LastFM: recordtoprofile = 1

In this case, although all the various submenus (skip, select new
channel etc) were presented, none of them did anything. I had to go
back to plugins/internet radio/lastfm, then I got "press play to start
lastfm, which did restart.

- one other thing.. just after loading this up last night, I had an
incident where slimserver had a runaway of some kind: 100% CPU, no
responsiveness, eating virtual memory. I wasn't logging at the time so
have no evidence, and I can't definitely say it was this plugin, but on
the other hand this is the first time this has happened and I was
fiddling with the plugin controls at the time. I've not been able to
reproduce this, so this could easily be another red herring, but I just
thought I'd mention it in case someone else gets something similar.

Thats all for now - I need to go and do some work!!  But thanks again
for this, its great.

Regards

Ceejay


-- 
ceejay
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