[RELEASE] LastTube (Video) Plugin - a Last.fm + YouTube Mashup Addon

@Jeoren: Skipping tracks would cause it to do that for me too, but only if I did it really fast. If I give it at least 10 secs it seems to work... but maybe that was a coincidence. I didn't test very thoroughly on that.

@Bramm77, I'll look into it the youtube plugin. A lot of clips are very low quality & very rarely a better one will across, but such is the nature of youtube.

Nicely Done, Cheers.

If you want the higher quality videos from youtube, change the linkage in my youtube code to:-

If the Hi-def version is available , then you will get it.

So instead of the Flv ----> Nice Mp4.

Vin.

I moved the download to http://code.google.com/p/rwparris2-xbmc-...loads/list

Revision 3 has the higher-quality videos (thanks Voinage!). It isn't really tested, so let me know how it works.

i tested it seems good to me.

i was thinking if there is not a way to save the
tags, other users and similar artist?

tikkiew Wrote:i was thinking if there is not a way to save the
tags, other users and similar artist?

I'm sure there is... I'll just have to figure it out. It's on my to-do list.
Thanks for the feedback.

This latest version is working for me for the most part. I still can't find my top artists, but that could be because I joined fairly recently and haven't played around with lastfm long enough to get enough top artists. I'm able to do a search of rwparris2 and pull up videos, the similar artists and tag searches both work as well. awesome plug-in!

@nicoli_k: http://www.last.fm/listen/user/nicoli_k/personal "not enough content to play this station"

It'll get there eventually

do i need to be a subscriber to listen to my own station using the plugin or is it able to pull songs off of my playlist?

nicoli_k Wrote:do i need to be a subscriber to listen to my own station using the plugin or is it able to pull songs off of my playlist?

I'm not sure what you mean your 'own station'. If you mean this: http://www.last.fm/listen/user/nicoli_k/playlist then, no, the plugin doesn't work like that. For that to work, there would have to be videos for each of those playlist items on youtube already.

What the plugin does is look at your overall top artists, finds youtube videos to match that, and plays them. Take a look here: http://www.last.fm/user/nicoli_k/charts . That is where the data is coming from. It'll probably take a week or so for that information to get filled in.

For an idea of what it will eventually be, look at http://tv.timbormans.com/user/nicoli_k/ . That is the current version of LastTube and it apparently picks videos much more liberally than the one I'm using.

I hope that helps explain things. If you want to request anything else or ask any more questions feel free

PS - XBMC has built-in last.fm functionality, so you can listen to your playlist there. it's music>last.fm>your profle. It just won't have any videos.

Has anyone tested this on xbmc for linux or xbmc for osx yet? I know there are problems with this plugin on the win32 version and am curious if those extend to other platforms...