Selecting station
At first the recorder is not tuned in to any station, so before you press the "Tune in" button you need to choose a station to record from. If you press the arrow facing downwards to the right of the textbox, you will be shown the 10 most played globaltags. But you can also copy and paste in URL's to your own stations. All you need to know is the Last.fm URL. You are recording
When you are recording, there are some small functions you can use. For example there are functions, like you know from your normal Last.fm player. You can skip, love or ban the song you are hearing. And besides that, you can also choose another station and tune into it, at any time you want to. Information about the progress of the song and about the song, is also displayed, so you can always see which song you are recording at the time.
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I wish you could listen while recording
To be able to record and listen online at the same time, I use a different last.fm account for recording, e.g. userone is listening via browser, then usertwo can log in to lastripper and tune in to lastfm://user/userone/playlist - that does not mean that userone is listening to what usertwo is recording, though.
I started using two accounts because I noticed that lastripper skips recording and starts recording a different song from the playlist in the moment where the flash player in the browser finishes playing a song ...
How difficult could it be to add a function to this that calls mplayer/mpg123 in the background and actually PLAYS the stream while doing all the recording foo at the same time. :)
The tool is awesome, and nicely finished. I'm also missing listening while recording though. Cheers.
Agree, please add a line to play the stream while it's recorded. How can I say if I "love" a song if I cannot hear it? :-)
this is such a nice tool..but there's only one flaw as other people are mentioning...please make some arrangement to listen to the songs as they as being downloaded.
Does anyone else have the problem that the ripper ends and save uncompleted songs, I guess when i get the error message sometimes(thats not a problem). I understand that the ripper might have problem sometimes and not record a full song. But would it not be better to save songs in a bufferfile and when the song is finished save it to the "real" file. Maybe thats just me.
@ robinhaggqvist
that is a great idea!
one more vote here
I'm not sure how I can choose love/hate for a song I can't hear. Great idea, works well except8 I can't hear what I'm ripping.
I also agree... obviously the one way to know if you like that music is hearing it.
That solution presented by tai.chi.nospam is not the best because will need more net resources to run, so the one viable way for me actually is record everything and delete what I don't like.
I agree too. This would be perfect only if I can hear and record at the same time.
Please add this function. Thanks
You CAN hear what you are ripping!
127.0.0.1:8000 but what protocol?
Dude... 8000 is the protocol :)
No Dude.....8000 is the port. HTTP is the protocol :-P
The live streaming works with Banshee on openSUSE 11.1. In the 'Media' menu, click on 'Open Location...' and enter 'http://127.0.0.1:8000'