Adding a protocol handler (eg: lastfm://) for firefox (works in win/mac/linux)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is this supposed to correct?

Type in "about:config" in the location bar
right click, select New --> String

name of string should be: "network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm"
value should be the path to your player executable, eg "~/Last.fm/player"

Tried it with the compiled player and the source code version, but am still gettting the "not a registered protocol" error. Using Firefox on XP.

Hmm,

Was straightforward for me. about:config to enter the location of the player, and then click on the link on my Profile page. Firefox popped up a warning, but only a sensible one about executables run from within webpages. Ok'ing that ran the player, and the stream started fine.

Where are you falling down guys - have you doubled checked the about:config entry?

Hmm

Being a Linux user, my path doesn't have spaces in it. This is trivial, I know, but have you tried using quotes (") to protect the spaces?

"C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\apps\Last.fm Player\player"

Might be worth a try

BalSeraph

Not that I'm a KDE whizz or anything

Better than me :)

I'll try that at work tomorrow - assuming I need to. If the stand-alone player is out, then I won't :P

kool it works.....

The value in firefox should be "C:\Program Files\Last.fm Player\player.exe"

Have tried the "new string" bit.
Tired dragging the link into the "enter station address bit".
Still no luck :(

Any more ideas??

Using Firefox and XP

Cheers

You have to download and build the player that last.fm wrote. Then change the path you made to amarok point to the location of the player. In my case I made a shell script point to the player binary under a folder, since the binary needs to be able to find the images, etc. you can't just throw it into ~/bin.

It looks like museli is one of the developers of the player, so hopefully the ability to play last.fm streams will make it into amarok eventually.

Thanks heaps for the KDE protocol info - works perfectly in konqueror.
(At least it did once I realised I'd put the lastfm.protocol file in the wrong place - d'oh!)

Yeah, I know :) Was just confirming, though, that it IS the correct way to add the protocol handler.

I did take a quick look at amarok scripting, but as I'm very much a NON-scripter, someone else is goingto have to write it ;)

You're right though, last.fm integration into amaroK would be awesome, and hopefully only a matter of time. If they managed to sneak podcast support into 1.3-beta3, then I'm sure it won't take long!

edit: specially in light of this: http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,57/func,view/id,7142/catid,9/

Re: compiling the player with Qt4

I haven't tried it, but you might be able to try statically linking in Qt 4 and then trying that on your work PC.

If I had access to my home pc atm I would try building it that way now, but I'm at work and it seems my IP has changed :-P

I worked on it a little Friday and Saturday. After rebuilding qt 4 or so times, I've kinda given up. It seems to work up until it tries to link in fontconfig, and it dies with a lot of undefined references. I don't really know why though. Qt itself seems fine. I guess we'll just have to wait for an official binary... sigh.

On a side note, static in the qmake file doesn't seem to do much at all, to try and get it to link I added -static to the line in the generated makefile on the LFLAGS line.

We should probably start a new thread for building the linux client though. We've gone pretty off topic.

EDIT: Oh, the binary is already out. Don't blame me I just bookmared this thread. :-)