by mccstumble » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:10 am
Hi All
I stumbled across Clementine and Songbird recently following Skyean's post of yesterday ("What I like in media players"). Despite my initial scepticism when reading the post I was blown away by the LastFm integration in both of them and especially in Clementine as it is so intuitive.
I have been using MM for so long that I haven't looked at other players in a few years. I am very pleased with MMs functionality and flexibility coupled with the fact I had escaped WMP and iTunes. However, now that I have seen what Clementine and Songbird do with LastFM, I am extremely keen to have such functionality in MM without having to search for and cobble together bits and pieces from all over the MM Forum pages in the hope I finally get something that resembles what I have experienced in Clementine.
I have checked MM Addons and also the Developers Addon Forum without success. I already have Monkeyrok installed and it is quite handy for biographies etc but it doesn't have proper LastFM support (it seems only to have Biographies etc). It is a great Addon except that it seems almost like a separate program rather than an integrated element of MM (by that I mean I am looking for something that works from the nodes)
I already have my existing MM LastFM node Addon and last FM AutoDJ script which are ok but nothing like what I am looking for these days given how things have moved on since I first got them. To be honest I rarely use them these days
Not sure how many MM users enjoy LastFM for discovering music but for me it is an integral part of my setup and I am sure there must be plenty of others who would wish for proper LastFm integration within MM. Personally I use LastFM on my iPhone, Squeezeserver, iPeng and the Web and it seems a pity that my favourite media player (Mediamonkey in case you haven’t guessed already) doesn't have this available (assuming I have looked but just not found it).
I think it would be awesome if there was an Addon or script that achieved the same LastFM integration for MM. That is, for the main LastFM node to be then nested with "My Recommendations", "My Radio Station", My Mix Radio", "My Neighbourhood", "Artist Radio", "Tag Radio", "Custom Radio", "Friends" and lastly "Neighbours" just as we would experience on LastFM itself or as seen on Clementine. Of course it should also be supplemented with a Node for "Artist Info" which would have nested nodes for Biography from LastFm, Biography for Wikipedia, Images, Artist Tags, Similar Artists, etc in the same way as Clementine does. There should also be the "Like" and Dislike buttons
If you would like to see a LastFM integration as described please add your comments / suggestions etc and hopefully some clever Addon developer may take it up as a project and keep MM ahead of the pack.
Hi All
I stumbled across Clementine and Songbird recently following Skyean's post of yesterday ("What I like in media players"). Despite my initial scepticism when reading the post I was blown away by the LastFm integration in both of them and especially in Clementine as it is so intuitive.
I have been using MM for so long that I haven't looked at other players in a few years. I am very pleased with MMs functionality and flexibility coupled with the fact I had escaped WMP and iTunes. However, now that I have seen what Clementine and Songbird do with LastFM, I am extremely keen to have such functionality in MM without having to search for and cobble together bits and pieces from all over the MM Forum pages in the hope I finally get something that resembles what I have experienced in Clementine.
I have checked MM Addons and also the Developers Addon Forum without success. I already have Monkeyrok installed and it is quite handy for biographies etc but it doesn't have proper LastFM support (it seems only to have Biographies etc). It is a great Addon except that it seems almost like a separate program rather than an integrated element of MM (by that I mean I am looking for something that works from the nodes)
I already have my existing MM LastFM node Addon and last FM AutoDJ script which are ok but nothing like what I am looking for these days given how things have moved on since I first got them. To be honest I rarely use them these days
Not sure how many MM users enjoy LastFM for discovering music but for me it is an integral part of my setup and I am sure there must be plenty of others who would wish for proper LastFm integration within MM. Personally I use LastFM on my iPhone, Squeezeserver, iPeng and the Web and it seems a pity that my favourite media player (Mediamonkey in case you haven’t guessed already) doesn't have this available (assuming I have looked but just not found it).
I think it would be awesome if there was an Addon or script that achieved the same LastFM integration for MM. That is, for the main LastFM node to be then nested with "My Recommendations", "My Radio Station", My Mix Radio", "My Neighbourhood", "Artist Radio", "Tag Radio", "Custom Radio", "Friends" and lastly "Neighbours" just as we would experience on LastFM itself or as seen on Clementine. Of course it should also be supplemented with a Node for "Artist Info" which would have nested nodes for Biography from LastFm, Biography for Wikipedia, Images, Artist Tags, Similar Artists, etc in the same way as Clementine does. There should also be the "Like" and Dislike buttons
If you would like to see a LastFM integration as described please add your comments / suggestions etc and hopefully some clever Addon developer may take it up as a project and keep MM ahead of the pack.