Release: LastBridge
It is official LastBridge.net is out for public consumption! Again for those who are lost and don’t know what this “LastBridge” is it’s for listening to your last.fm radio stream on the Roku SoundBridge.I have made a screencast on How To use LastBridge. If anyone still needs help or just want to leave your opinions on this project, leave a comment or two. Thanks.Enjoy!
January 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
hey the sites not working??
o and i got that script i wanted working:)
January 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Thanks for letting me know otherwise I would have never knowned. It seems my DNS is still having issues… I started to not like Dreamhost!
January 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Wow, this would be amazing…if I can get it working! I’ve done everything, but when I try to open the stream, it doesn’t work. I’ve opened it in vlc and the error is :
Unable to open ‘www.lastbridge.net/user/no such user’
the lastfm:// link works and launches the last fm player ok. Any idea?
January 24th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Ahhh sussed it. The example playlist on the add screen uses the lastbridge username, not the last.fm username, doh!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Slim, what do you mean?
yes it does work. There maybe some times it will not work, it’s usually because last.fm is having issues.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Great idea!
It appears that this only works if I am a paying last.fm subscriber. When I try the lastfm:// link the Last.fm player tells me “This station is available to subscribers only.”
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Rich, thanks for that info. I will get a few links for non-subscribers of last.fm.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Help! This sounds like a great idea, but being thick as two short planks, I am unable to work it out. Can anybody post an idiots guide showing step by step instructions how to get your neighbour and recommended stations set up? I’m sure I can’t be alone…..THANKS!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Is lastbridge working properly at the moment?
I’ve tried setting it up, but the playlist file I get seems to be invalid – it contains the following:
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
File1=no such user
Title1=LastFM Radio [LastFM]
Length1=-1
Version=2
I see errors like this when trying VLC:
Unable to open ‘www.lastbridge.net/user/no such user’
Any ideas?
February 12th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Make sure you enter your username/password and copy the link to your playlist file if that dont work I will need to take a look at as soon as I come home as I am on my way home.. Thanks for letting me know about this.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Ed, everything is working properly. Just make sure you have entered your username/password and click on the station you want to listen to. Or just watch the screencast.
February 13th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Thanks for the reply. I’m not quite sure what was going on, but I ended up re-entering my last.fm username and password and then grabbing the playlist again – this time it seems much better (in other words it actually has a valid “file” in it).
Not sure what was happening last night as I was still seeing my recent tracks on the lastbridge main page (which made me think you must have got my user ID/pw correct).
Anyway, hopefully all is working well now (I can’t actually tell as I’m at work so don’t have access to the Streambridge or VLC).
Cheers!
March 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Cool project! I watched your screencast, and got a playlist URL of http://87.117.229.85/last.mp3?Session=9fcbb5ae3b8bc3e080f1d3ffd60cc0b9
This doesn’t play, and the contents are “HTTP/1.0 667 Not enough content left to play this station”.
I’m not a pay subscriber @last.fm, is that why this is breaking?
March 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am
well it could be that, though I am not sure. I have only experienced that once and I couldn’t duplicate it.. Try playing a tagged station. Maybe that will work.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I had no data on last.fm for a long time (more than a year), so that is probably why. Priming the pump now.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
It still wasn’t working..I subscribed for a month and now it seems to work.
There’s no artist/song info eh?
March 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I had the same problem as reported earlier:
the personal-link wouldn’t work although i could see the tracks last played.
The solution offered in #12 helped me:
i had to reenter my name and password (regarding last.fm) … and then everything worked fine!
Great work – thanx!
ed_de
March 16th, 2008 at 3:37 am
… sorry … not so sure now if everything works fine:
for sure sometimes it works fine but often doesn’t work as i would expect … so i’m still trying to find my way.
ed.de
March 20th, 2008 at 5:44 am
What i do is
1/ login lastbridge and create a link to last.fm
2/ copy that link to my 5 soundbridges
3/ get last.fm played on SBs – fine.
4/ If i want to change my last.fm “program” i go to their website or use their software or start TheLastRipper … and thus i get the program changed for all my SBs by choosing another radio.
5/ What i would like to do is create not only one but 2 (or even more) connections by lastbridge to different accounts on last.fm and thus getting more than 1 preset-stations on the SBs – until now i don’t get that working in lastbridge!
So my question is: Is this possible in LastBridge?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:43 am
… ok – got it solved – no answer needed anymore.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Now I’ve tried to get lastbridge to work, but the playlist just contains this text:
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
File1=no such user
Title1=LastFM Radio [LastFM]
Length1=-1
Version=2
I can see my Recent tracks, but the playlist doesn’t work.
Any idea.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:19 am
@r2 Have you entered your Last fm credentials? You will need to that for it to log you in and retrieve your personal station, friends and last fm offers you priority streaming if you are a pay subscriber. Also Your problem, well I was not able to replicate it but I think that happens because you have not entered your correct credentials.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Yes I have entered them, otherwise I wouldn’t see my recently played tracks, so I am logged in all right. I can also see that if I listen to some more tracks in LastFm and then do an update of the lastbridge page, the latest track is shown. The link looks like this: http://www.lastbridge.net/user/playlist.pls?stream=5fd4d9effb9197a1e34bf85482971de1 and when I open it in WordPad I get:
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
File1=no such user
Title1=LastFM Radio [LastFM]
Length1=-1
Version=2
July 7th, 2008 at 4:59 am
@r2 which statation are you trying to listen to?
1. if you are trying to listening to any of the Paid stations like Personal it will not work.
2. If you are not a paying subscriber to Last.fm then only some stations will work. I think it’s only personal station that is paid I think.. Try listening to other tracks like tagged radio stations.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:37 am
I got it to work when I reeentered the credentials.
I’m not a paying subscriber.
Nice that I now can listen to Last FM on my Soundbridge. I can also skip to the next song from the Soundbrige by reselecting the preset station.