Vagalume: a Last.fm player for the Nokia N800
These days I have been working on Vagalume: a Last.fm player for the Maemo platform (Nokia N800 and N810, though it’s designed to work on a regular PC Gnome desktop as well).
It’s still very small and doesn’t do much (I started it just a few days ago) but since it already works and has the most basic features that a Last.fm player must have I decided to release it.
Don’t expect a UI with lots of colours and shiny buttons in this release: I have been concentrating mostly on the protocol so the UI is stripped to the bare minimum.
Here’s a sample screenshot (taken from the scratchbox):
Features:
- It plays Last.fm radio streams (using the Last.fm protocol v1.2)
- You can select any radio (Personal, Neighbours, Loved Tracks …, or any arbitrary URL)
- It implements the Audioscrobbler Realtime Submission Protocol v1.2, specifically:
- It sends Now Playing information
- It scrobbles tracks (so you’ll see what you’ve been listening to in your profile).
- It is stable, I’m using it everyday and I haven’t experienced hangs or other strange behaviours so far.
- It’s small (the binary is less than 50K).
What it doesn’t do (yet):
- It doesn’t have the ability to Love/Ban/Recommend tracks
- It doesn’t have a nice UI
- It doesn’t show album covers on the screen
- …and many other things
You can install Vagalume in your N800 (with Internet Tablet OS 2007) using this package.
I plan to release the source code under the GNU GPL later this week and I’ll probably build packages for Debian and Ubuntu as well, so you can use this program in your PC. And of course there will be packages for the upcoming Internet Tablet OS 2008 (N800 and N810) too.
And that’s all, folks!
Updated 31 Oct 2007: more packages here.
Posted: October 29th, 2007 under English, Planet GPUL, Planet Gnome, Planet Igalia, Planet Maemo, Software.
Comments: 15
Comments
Comment from Joe
Time: October 30, 2007, 10:15 am
Great ! Thanks!
Comment from dkwatts
Time: October 30, 2007, 1:08 pm
A beautiful piece of software.
It’s already my favorite media player.
Comment from Jakub Steiner
Time: October 30, 2007, 2:06 pm
Perhaps it even trumps the current No.1 use for the n800, web browsing :) Ultimate radio receiver.
Comment from dwi
Time: October 30, 2007, 4:20 pm
Oww awesome! Listening Last.fm pretty often and this app is really useful, thanks!
Comment from Jess
Time: October 30, 2007, 5:16 pm
Very Nice… all we need now is volume control and an alarm clock feature :)
Comment from Arin
Time: October 30, 2007, 6:07 pm
Great work! I used it this morning while cleaning our equipment room here at work. Heard some very nice tunes – beautiful little program!
Comment from berto
Time: October 31, 2007, 12:10 pm
Thank you all for your comments! I’ll probably make the first release with full source code tomorrow. Meanwhile you can get another pre-release here. It includes the ability to Love/Ban tracks, enable/disable scrobbling and the discovery mode.
Jess, the volume control is already planned, I hope I’ll implement it very soon. And the alarm clock feature is a great idea! :-)
Comment from fpp
Time: November 1, 2007, 12:19 pm
Looks really nice & useful ! Too bad there isn’t a version that will install on the 770…
Comment from DryGoatAir
Time: November 3, 2007, 1:53 pm
Great work Alberto! Works like a charm! But the volume control is indeed missing, but I’ll just wait for it. Also a menu icon would be nice ;) I hate those standard Nokia icons.
Comment from berto
Time: November 3, 2007, 1:56 pm
Thanks! I hate those icons too, I’ll try to improve the UI in future releases :)
BTW, check the latest versions here.
Comment from Felipe Contreras
Time: November 5, 2007, 4:37 pm
Great job!
It’s now my favorite media player for my N810.
Actually I would even use it in my laptop instead of Rhythmbox since it has more features than the last.fm plugin!
Vagalume si mola ;)
Comment from timsamoff
Time: November 10, 2007, 3:09 am
Alberto, I posted something at your Garage project page as well, but… Thank you for this!
My thanks:
http://sense-datum.org/tim/archive/2007/11/09/Vagalume/tim_samoff__weblog
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