Exaile LastFM Proxy Plugin

A few versions ago, Exaile had Last.FM streaming support using LastFMSource, a pygst plugin created by Philippe Normand of Elisa. It worked... sort of. Every other time you tried to connect to LastFM station, Gstreamer would lock up entirely, taking Exaile out with it. Not being able to fix this problem, it was eventually removed from Exaile entirely.

Enter: LastFM Proxy. This is a program written in python created to connect to LastFM and start streaming the music to a proxy that you can connect to on your local machine using any music player that supports HTTP streaming.

After a bit of hacking (and really, this is some seriously hackish stuff), I've created a plugin for Exaile called "LastFM Radio" that (mostly) seemlessly integrates LastFMProxy into Exaile. To the user, it appears to just be a Radio Panel plugin like the current "Shoutcast Radio" plugin. The user just clicks on the station they want to listen to, and it starts playing. They can "Skip", "Ban", or "Love" tracks just like in the LastFM native player.

It still needs some work, but overall, I'm pretty pleased with how well it works. Give it a try!

Note: You must be using the latest bzr version of Exaile for this plugin to work. You can get instructions on doing that from Exaile's downloads page.