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

j3ffd Wrote:Cool plugin!

Running SVN 23185 on Linux. I put my last.fm username and password in XBMC's music settings. When I ran LastTube, before even getting to the LastTube menu, XBMC crashed with the following in the crash log:

DEBUG: Error: Requested setting (lastfm.username) was not found. It must be case-sensitive

grepping lastfm in the source code shows this: "scrobbler.lastfmusername". Put this in place of "lastfm.username" on line 141 of LastTube/default.py. Now LastTube loads!

Damned API changes
I committed that change without testing it, so I hope you're right about that fixing things.

Guys,

Does LastTube have an official website? I've modified it and I'd like to contribute my little code to its author.

Do you know about its license? I've found http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/ where it looks like LastTube is hosted, but I can't figure out a way to contact its author.

In case anyone is interested, I've made two modifications:

- videos now keep on playing until you stop them,
- XBMC now downloads the videos: since you look for your favorite artists, you're supposed to like the videos. (It works with "search for tags" and "search for user" as well, of course).

If the license allows me to do so, I can give my little code to anyone who is interested.

Cheers!

AlienQueen Wrote:Guys,

Does LastTube have an official website? I've modified it and I'd like to contribute my little code to its author.

Do you know about its license? I've found http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/ where it looks like LastTube is hosted, but I can't figure out a way to contact its author.

In case anyone is interested, I've made two modifications:

- videos now keep on playing until you stop them,
- XBMC now downloads the videos: since you look for your favorite artists, you're supposed to like the videos. (It works with "search for tags" and "search for user" as well, of course).

If the license allows me to do so, I can give my little code to anyone who is interested.

Cheers!

I'm the author of the xbmc plugin lasttube, Tim Borman is the author of the mashup & player. http://beta.tv.timbormans.com/

I haven't updated this thing in forever. The first modification you made should have been in it from the beginning. Not sure when/where it broke, but thanks for supposedly fixing it.

Feel free to mail me if you'd like to continue taking this plugin where it needs to go. Sorry the state of the code, I broke my python cherry writing that plugin

Hi guys, I'd love to get your update, and would like to make a suggestion for another. I got the current version from the svn repo using XBMC on Ubuntu Karmic, and it works pretty well, but it stops playing after 2-5 songs and always seems to stop after you skip a song. It has also crashed XBMC once. Sounds like you have a fix for that which would be great!

The other issue I have with it is that I have to type in my LastFM username (or search term) in order for it to play anything, so whenever it stops playing I have to bring up the keyboard and type my username again. So my suggestion would be to have a preset item that just launches LastTube with whatever settings you last used. That way it could be completely automated without needing to edit any config files or anything and just automatically use whatever you typed in last time.

Also I read earlier in this forum that there is a LastFM music plugin already for XBMC? It's not in mine, and I couldn't find one in any of the SVN repos I have available. Where do you get it from?

It works on my Xbox, but you need an Xbox remote (which thankfully I have) to be able to skip and move forward/back properly. The game controller doesn't work.

The only grip (so far!) is that I would like to be able to play videos from my neighbourhood, as this is how I find a lot of stuff I haven't heard before.

Also having the option (when possible) to stream higher quality videos would be good.

I also can't skip very quickly through videos. If I go even slightly fast, it craps out after about 4 videos.

It would also be helpful if it did better/background buffering between videos, so that there was no gap between them.

And an ultimate final wish would be to still be able to love, and ban tracks too!

Having said which it still has the potential to be the greatest XBMC plugin ever created!!!

This plugin is *the best*!

There's only one big 'problem', everytime I want to listen to my own station, I have to write down my username, which is very annoying with the remote control...

It would be great if it could remember our last search, or something like that.

Thanks!

If you put your last.fm username in xbmc settings it pulls it from there.

Hi,

I would like to know if there is a working plugin version for the dharma release, and if it is, where could i get it? tnx,

p.s. great plugin btw

bye

Hi,
I am also keen to know if this plugin gets worked on again. It was perfect.

Any chance to get this back to life?