One Button Random Music? (2 Viewers)

[thesystemera]

Hey sorry to ask again, but is there just any way to hotlink straight to "last.fm radio" - "my web-radio" with just one button, I don't care so much about staying in the main screen as if the monitor is off I don't really care where it goes or what it displays.... I just want to be able to press a button that triggers the hyperlink to last.fm's web radio... I mean if there was some way I could just program a macro that would take me through the corresponding button presses that is required.. Even better if the last.fm radio plugin had a setting that would just automatically put one of the choices you have in the "Start / Change stream" dialogue on automatically on launch would work fine..

I just love last.fm web radio... It is amazing, and I'm always discovering new exciting music, funny enough that i like..

 

[JonasIL]

This is a great plugin!

A feature I would like to see added is to start a streamed radio channel when pushing Play.

Just put any radio stream in a .pls Playlist

Excellent, thank you for the suggested solution!

 

[dabbith]

Couldn't try any remote, since my HTPC, with remote, is occupied by wife. but normally it shouldn't make any difference.

I thought it was strange that it behaved differently. I'll try to steal the HTPC for a bit this weekend and see if I can trace exactly what is happening.

That's what i tried first. Adding one song. but it doesn't work.
it seems that scrobbling started for you, as soon as you entered the Playlist GUI.
this is the technical reason, i've talked about. Scrobblin only starts, when the Playlist screen is active.

Ah, that makes sense. Luckily I don't care about that feature so much. I like all the music in my library so the random option is just fine.

 

[rtv]

Hey sorry to ask again, but is there just any way to hotlink straight to "last.fm radio" - "my web-radio" with just one button

The answer is still no.
I am not a fan of quick and dirty solutions and therefore there won't be a hack just to get it going.
For the real one-click-pleasure there are way more things which needs to be handled (Think of last.fm's streaming servers being offline, faulty account details, etc).

I like the idea myself and there's a good chance something like that will be possible soon but surly not before the 1.0 release...

 

[karlake]

Anyone else got remote problems after starting the plugin?
after I pressed play on home and the plugn started most remote buttons do not respont (arrowws/ok works fine)
I could stop music via topbar but even after that the music stoped, remote does not work.
after I disabled plugin, everything is ok again

 

[pissbang]

this sound cool and will try it out when i get home.

just one question. is there any way of increasing the number of the randomly played songs?

 

[2BitSculptor]

but what if you need different playlists for different moods (or for different guests)?

What if you could select a playlist by number, then press the play button... that would be very sweet, up to 10 different playlists. For change in mood, select a number after the playlist is playing to switch to a different playlist in the playlist-list.

So it goes from 1 button convenience to 2 button convenience ... all with the lights down low and no TV on.

Then maybe a macro to play full screen that fireplace video you are so proud of, and turn on the tv for you, while playing music ... as you are lighting the scented candles and pouring the wine.



Chuck

 

[hwahrmann]

but what if you need different playlists for different moods (or for different guests)?

What if you could select a playlist by number, then press the play button... that would be very sweet, up to 10 different playlists. For change in mood, select a number after the playlist is playing to switch to a different playlist in the playlist-list.

So it goes from 1 button convenience to 2 button convenience ... all with the lights down low and no TV on.

Then maybe a macro to play full screen that fireplace video you are so proud of, and turn on the tv for you, while playing music ... as you are lighting the scented candles and pouring the wine.



Chuck

Well, then you better turn on the TV and use the inbuilt screens.
I really don't want to build complete functionality, which is already there.

This thread started, that someone wanted a way to start music from home, without turning on tv or projector

 

[hwahrmann]

this sound cool and will try it out when i get home.

just one question. is there any way of increasing the number of the randomly played songs?

ok, i'll add an input field, wich allows changing the number of songs, but you could press simply "Play" again and it'll add 100 other songs.

 

[Nemulate]

Hi,

my mce remote doesn't seem to work with this plugin most of the time but keyboard 'p' works fine. Any ideas?

Thanks