vagalume
final update: Nov 14 2009
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You surely already heard about the new last.fm radio policies. This post by a last.fm staff member clarifies the upcoming changes,
Only last.fm subscribers (curr. 3 € /m) are able to use 3rd party clients (regardless of geographical location) for streaming radio.
I won't maintain the patched vagalume any more, so this version is useless now and the website is only kept for historical purposes.
i suggest you have a look at libre.fm
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Vagalume is a Last.fm client for Gnome and Maemo developed by Alberto Garcia.
Some of its current features include:
- plays Last.fm radio streams (using protocol v1.5)
- gnome libnotify & pulseaudio support
- can be remote-controlled via dbus
- scrobbles tracks to your Last.fm profile page
- Supports different radio stations (personal, neighbors, loved tracks or any lastfm:// URL .
The patch below adds this neat features to the Desktop Version of Vagalume:
(other platforms the original client runs on are not supported ! )
- save the current song by a click on the download button
- custom save format: mp3, ogg, m4a, flac... by customizable Gstreamer-pipelines
- automatically Id3-Tags mp3, ogg & m4a files
- New Settings in Vagalume's "Last.FM - Settings - Download" Tab:
- set file Name / Directory save pattern- set Output gst-pipeline (choose from oga, mp3, flac, m4a or wav)
- set duplicated file treatment options
- automatic download
Please Note that the .oga gst-pipeline might cause problems with some older versions of the gstreamer oggmux library. Change the Output Format (Last.fm - Settings - Download) to a "mp3" or "aac" pipeline if your vagalume hangs on track changes.
Save-Song patch for Vagalume 0.7.1 [more]
Debian / Ubuntu Source Package [Package Build | Binaries ]
Size: 626 kb MD5: 57b9a90f55912fb85832e51e98f41d43
All credits go to the patch author Robert-Andre Mauchin
Build the patched Vagalume
Generic Instructions: get the latest compatible vagalume source version from here unpack it, and apply the patch inside the vagalume-0.7*.orig folder with:
patch -p1 < save-song-v*.patch
and build it as usual with
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install [as root]
Debian Binary Package Build: Ubuntu & other debian(s) can use the "prepared" source package vagalume_0.7*-src.tar.gz,. It has a simple patching system in the debian/rules file and will apply patches automatically during build. Unpack the Archive and from a terminal use:
sudo apt-get build-dep vagalume
sudo apt-get install debhelper fakeroot pkg-config libtool libglib2.0-dev libgnome-media-dev
dpkg-source -x vagalume_*.dsc
Now you can place additional patches for your Release in the subfolder debian/patches (the save-song patch is already in there) and use:
fakeroot debian/rules binary
to build the customized vagalume. For more patches see the file vagalume-0.7*/debian/contrib/README
Install the produced vagalume deb package as usual
Thanks to:
- FSF for the GPL
- Berto & all other hackers for writing vagalume
- Robert-Andre Mauchin for the great save-song patch
- Hank for many patches, bugfixing & testing
- uvok89 for the gentoo ebuild
- stefan315 for the 64-bit builds
Links:
- Vagalume Maemo Project Site (bugtracker, websvn, user forum)
- German documentation: Vagalume ubuntuusers.de wiki article or this forum thread
- vagalume-devel mailing list Archive
Contact: mtron[*at*]a1.net
