Clementine: Last.fm work around stoped working (redirecting last.fm to libre.fm via the hosts file from 1.3.0+)

Created on 5 Jul 2016 · 5Comments · Source: clementine-player/Clementine

To be investigated (high prior I think) - taken from #1

@ar-jan

Looks like the workaround of redirecting last.fm scrobbling to libre.fm via the hosts file stopped working from version 1.3.0 onwards :(

If you try the Last.fm Sign in button under Preferences, with 213.138.110.197 post.audioscrobbler.com in the hosts file, you only get a popup saying "Last.fm authentication faile[d]".

@mattl

@ar-jan Libre.fm was down some a few days, so possibly related to that?

@ar-jan

@mattl I think it's unrelated: my scrobble history in libre.fm ends about 2 months ago, and I tried logging in again yesterday, but failed. I recall seeing something about a new login method for last.fm, so my guess is that when this was implemented for last.fm, the hosts file redirect option stopped working.

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JulianVolodia

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Thanks for opening an issue. I wasn't sure if the hosts redirect workaround is officially supported so I made it a comment.

My latest testing where the workaround fails was on Ubuntu 14.04 with Clementine 1.3.1 from ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine.

If I recall correctly there used to be a username and password field for last.fm, whereas now a browser window is opened leading you to last.fm to sign in and authorize Clementine, which I suppose is the reason libre.fm no longer works. (Last.fm does work for me, by the way).

ar-jan on 5 Jul 2016

Thanks for opening an issue. I wasn't sure if the hosts redirect workaround is officially supported so I made it a comment.

@ar-jan no problem I think. I won't blame - just be curious about clean. Some people don't like opening new issues - in my though this is strange, but in the other hand, I am strange 4 them :P

If it is supported isn't completely clear for me, too...

@Chocobozzz is that hosts redirect work-around officialy supported?

...workaround fails was on Ubuntu 14.04 with Clementine 1.3.1 from ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine.

Thanks! I will try to repeat that...

JulianVolodia on 5 Jul 2016

@hatstand why?

JulianVolodia on 5 Jul 2016

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If people care enough to actually use libre.fm instead of last.fm, then someone should care enough to actually implement it. We're not going to support random workarounds.