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Updated: Scrobbling your ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio listening

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Chris Bowley Chris Bowley | 14:49 UK time, Friday, 30 May 2008

Just a quick note to announce an update to the Mac OS X Dashboard version of my ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio / Last.fm widget. From your comments I realised both widgets aren't as stable as they might be and I've recently had a bit of time to (hopefully) rectify that. The Mac version now uses and for all ajax requests (which is infinitely more stable than my custom code :)

The same caveats apply as before (its still beta!), but hopefully this version will behave itself a little better. As always, all comments gratefully received.

Download for OS X Dashboard
Version 0.3 | 30th May 2008

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    This is such a good idea. It frustrates me that Last FM misses my at work ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ radio streaming which, since my wife prefers silence to music, is most of my listening!

    But ...

    Can we have a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3 feed?

    Is the source and the feed available too (is it just from backstage?) I don't use the OS X Dashboard nor Y! Gadgets so it would be nice to do it some other way. And why not seperate it from the streaming - it would be great to scrobble ones broadcast listening, perhaps from one's Olinda ;-)

  • Comment number 2.

    @dumbledad - Now playing information is generated through our playout system which is currently not used by all networks or programmes (e.g. special music shows which play vinyl).

    Radio 1, 2, 6 Music and 1 Xtra have Last.fm profiles, fed by our playout system, which is where I get their now playing feeds from, e.g. . You can get lots more statistics on each through the Audioscrobbler API:

  • Comment number 3.

    Nothing happens when I click the play button, but I get the following in Console:

    (event handler):Undefined value
    2008-06-20 12:39:40.843 DashboardClient[10358] (uk.co.bbc.radio.labs.bbc_radio_last_fm_widget) file:///Users/simon/Library/Widgets/bbc_radio_last_fm.wdgt/scripts/widget.js: Undefined value (line: 89)
    (event handler):Undefined value

  • Comment number 4.

    I should have said, the Console message in the last post was from OSX Tiger, whereas Leopard seems a little more expansive:

    20/06/2008 12:48:22 DashboardClient[1582] (uk.co.bbc.radio.labs.bbc_radio_last_fm_widget) file:///Users/simon/Library/Widgets/bbc_radio_last_fm.wdgt/scripts/widget.js: Undefined value (line: 89)
    20/06/2008 12:48:22 [0x0-0xc00c].com.apple.dock[228] 2008-06-20 12:48:22.430 DashboardClient[1582:10b] (uk.co.bbc.radio.labs.bbc_radio_last_fm_widget) file:///Users/simon/Library/Widgets/bbc_radio_last_fm.wdgt/scripts/widget.js: Undefined value (line: 89)

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