Re: [Banshee-List] last.fm dropping connection?

[sp1 <superplonk gmail com>]

Is there any news on this? I have the same problem. Banshee will play only 2
tracks from last.fm and before stopping.


Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Alex Hixon <halex mediati org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:36 +0200, infernux web de wrote:
>>> > Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>>> > I'm a heavy user of last.fm's music streams ("music similar to ...").
>>> > Once in a while (actually several times a day) Banshee seems to drop
>>> > the connection with last.fm [..]
>>>
>>> I have had all kinds of trouble with last.fm during recent weeks... Both
>>> song reporting and recommendation fetching seem to hang. I'm using
>>> last.fm radio that much so I can't tell if that is broken, too.
>>>
>>> Is there some official statement regarding this? Is the last.fm server
>>> to blame or does banshee do something wrong?
>> You can check out http://status.last.fm/ to see if it's a Last.fm server
>> bug, or alternatively try with a different client. If both of these seem
>> to point out that it should be working OK, please open a bug.
> 
> It does not have much to do with last.fm status. Be it last.fm
> hiccups, me pulling the cable out the wall, my WiFi router having a
> glitch, Earth's magnetic field playing tricks on humans or alien ships
> using their deathscrobbler rays, there is no way to get Banshee to
> reconnect (and refresh a last.fm stream playlist) without quitting and
> starting it again. It's bad as it takes some time and results in HDD
> trashing (thus slowing down other software for a while).
> 
> I don't expect Banshee to fix last.fm's servers, I just want it to
> detect the "broken" state (all radio playlist items marked as "error")
> and reconnect to the stream. To be honest even a manual "refresh"
> option in the context menu would do but that's just a workaround.
> 
> :)
> 
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