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

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

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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Patryk Zawadzki