Re: [Banshee-List] Last.fm Fingerprint extension continues to ask for credentials

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com> wrote:
> Same here too, cant we have it on autopilot would be a great feature.
>
> On 16 May 2011 5:05 PM, "osfight.de" <linux osfight de> wrote:
>
> I am using Banshee 2.0.1 and the last.fm fingerprint extension still
> asks for the last.fm credentials almost each time I use it. Scrobbling
> seems to work fine. I know, there was a bug filed, but I thought it has
> been fixed a long time ago. Any idea why this is still happening?

The bug you're referring to is this one :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647026

As explained in the bug, Banshee doesn't store your Last.fm password,
the regular authentication process allows us to avoid that.
But for some reason, the fingerprint API will timeout if you don't
pass it the username and  a hash built from the password as
parameters...
In order to avoid asking for credentials for each run, we need to find
and implement a reliable, secure and cross-platform way to store the
password. Or maybe hope Last.fm fixes their API.

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz