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Update: Listen to your Last.fm streaming radio on the Roku SoundBridge Using LastBridge.net.
LastBridge.net makes it really simple to listen to your last.fm music on the soundbridge. If that is what you are looking for then check out it out! www.LastBridge.net.

Updated Post

So a while ago, maybe 7 months ago I bought the Roku SoundBridge and I do like it. Recently I have been listening to a lot of last.fm to my personal radio / loved tracks. So while listening to last.fm I didn’t always want the computer to be on so I googled to see if there was any solutions. I found one but it was some kinda server written in python. I didn’t test it but from the read me file it seems you need to have your computer turned on. Which is what I am trying to avoid. Now I came up with my solution.

It’s basically a controller. You can use your a PSP that is if you have one, I do so I use that to control it when I am away from my computer. It uses a playlist file to play your last.fm radio stream. So not only can you use this playlist file with the roku soundbridge but also with other media players and its controlled via a web based controller.

It is written in PHP.
You can download it here. last.fm-for-roku-soundbridge-etc.zip

It’s super easy to setup. Just open the config.php file with a plain text editor and insert your username and password. The password need to be in md5. With Mac OSX you can open up Terminal and get your md5 that way. Type this in the termnial.
md5 -s [your_password]
of course replace [your_password] with your actual password and it then will generate an md5. If your on windows I don’t know how you would get an md5 but I found this app useful to get the md5sum.
fourmilab.ch/md5/ .zip file contain the md5.exe. Enjoy.

Oh yeah before I forget you will need a web server with php installed and with cURL. Thats it.
If you need a free php web host then here is a list 0php.com/free_PHP_hosting.php or you can always just search for one, although it’s always best to just buy web hosting its not expensive.

I use last.fm and I got to say its very cool. I used pandora.com but I never liked it much. I like the idea. On the other hand I also used Last.fm and I got to say I love it. I actually did find new music by different bands/artists. So when I’m hacking/programming I like listening to Last.fm because its always the music I like and yes I am a paying subscriber to Last.fm.

So here is my last.fm songs. I am not sure if this will work. It just might work.
I am listening to. Capitol K – Pillow its freaking awesome.

Revolution OS a documentary about GNU Linux. Its cool, I like it. check it out.

LyFOX for linux is out and I think it’s the better one than the one for Mac or Windows. It was edited by Bryan. The linux version of LyFOX lets you download the music videos with only one click as oppose to the mac and win versions. So download that and check it out. It’s awesome. Oh yeah I don’t host the linux version so go to his site.

You can also download LyFOX for linux from here LyFOX Linux

Happy New Years Everyone!

This is the last day of the year and tomorrow is the beginning of a new year. So to celebrate I will share what I found over at digg. Premium access to thousands of website templates get them while they are hot. www.dreamtemplate.com
Uername: 2007ny
Password: free

Okay so I am trying to create this cool map. I won’t go into detail but this is where you guys come in, If anyone knows how to retrive the lat/lon from a map, that is when you click on an area of the map it should return the lat/lon. Lets say you don’t the address of a location then how can you geotag it? Other than clicking on the map and tag it that way. So please let me know if anyone knows how to do this. thanx.

Okay nevermind now. I have this all figured out.

Okay so here is the update on yahoo’s flash video .flv. After doing some poking around I learned that they use something called RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol). So I was looking deep and I just could not yet find a way to download the videos in .flv.

Here are my notes I took down while I was poking through all that shit it also includes the files I looked at. View My Notes
Oh yeah and here is the video I was watching while I was trying to figure all this stuff out.

So I was over at music.yahoo.com and I was browsing the site so I search for Acceptance, a band I like, and I clicked on the video to try and watch it to see what would happen. I was surprise to find out that now mac users can watch music videos over at yahoo. Since they show them to you “Youtube Style” in other words in flash video. I then checked the uk.launch.yahoo.com & ca.music.yahoo.com and it seems yahoo has not yet change things on those sites. So if yahoo changes to all flash video does that mean phpLYFOX & LyFOX are doomed? Now maybe there is a way to download those flash videos from yahoo and transcode them into .mp4.

phpLYFOX has been updated. Changes made: added playlist support.
Tell me what you think and suggestion are always cool.
phpLYFOX

Here is a script I wrote in PHP it shows you your own cookies yahoo music gives you after you login. So say you are making some kind of app and need cookies for yahoo music then use your own. Here you go donwload it: login.yahoo.cookies.zip

phpLYFOX is completed. What is phpLYFOX? It is simply a way to watch yahoo music videos for us Mac users since Yahoo absolutely doesn’t care to provide Macintosh users access in other words its web based. So here you go my mac friends. Try it out phpLYFOX or you can download the source code here phpLYFOX.zip

LyFOX Dashboard Widget for use mac people.
Download: lyfox.widget.php

LyFOX means Launch.Yahoo For OSX. It was intended for mac users to be able to watch music videos from Yahoo.
Its available for Mac, Windows, & Linux
Mac: LyFOX.zip | Windows: LyFOX.exe.zip | Linux: LyFOX For Linux