Last.fm Desktop Application Beta (2012)

Haven't had a chance to do much with the new app yet, but here are a handful of small graphical display glitches -

(1) If you have Recent Stations which include ampersands (e.g. Simon & Garfunkel artist radio) then these aren't rendered correctly in the station history. Presumably other ascii characters suffer the same problem. (Example launch URL from the website: here) {Screenshot}

(2) On the Radio tab, typing an artist name containing an ampersand and hitting Enter (or pressing Play) doesn't always seem to start a station. "Simon & Garfunkel" or "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" for example. "Florence & The Machine" works (redirects to Florence + The Machine, so I suspect the redirection is causing it to succeed!)

(3) If you try to launch a deprecated station (playlist, loved tracks, personal tag) or if you launch a station from RQL, it appears in the Recent Stations list with a blank station name. Empty station names should probably be excluded, for consistency with the website player. {Screenshot}

(4) RQL URLs do tune correctly, but no station name is displayed in the header - it just says "Listening to ...." - in this scenario it should probably just say "A radio station" for consistency with the website. {Screenshot}

(5) On the Profile tab, the scrobble-count stats are displayed in a dull plain font, can they look a bit more like the artist stats are formatted? {Screenshot}

(6) The menu options for Volume Up and Volume Down don't seem to do anything, nor do the keyboard shortcuts work. Interestingly the Mute option/shortcut works fine though. (Windows 7 Ultimate)

(7) The shortcuts for Ban (Ctrl-B), Tag (Ctrl-T) and Share (Ctrl-S) don't seem to work for me, although they work fine when accessed via the menu. (Windows 7 Ultimate)

(8) When adding another user account via the Tools menu, the popup confirmation prior to proceeding to the website has a messagebox title of "Last". You lost an FM

(9) In the track progress bar, the scrobbling cut-off indicator line often jumps wildly between songs. The problem is impacted the further along the cut-off is set (it's hardly visible when set to 50%, but quite evident if you set it to 90%). It shouldn't be moving at all - 90% is 90% regardless of the track length. {Screenshot}

(10) There's no option to enable/disable scrobbling from within the main client. You have to either right-click the tray icon, or go into the Tools menu. I really miss the old toggle on/off option in the client itself, the others are a bit unwieldy if I just want to stop the current song from scrobbling without skipping it.

Needless to say, it is looking awesome and I'm only doing my job :)

Started another post to avoid (or aid) confusion

(11) Normally the Now Playing tooltip has two lines (header = artist/track, followed by a line for the album) but if the first line is very long, the tooltip gains an extra blank line. {Screenshot}

(12) If I'm listening to the artist radio of an artist I've not listened to before (e.g. Slipknot), tracks by other unplayed artists display with the context "Recommended because you listen to Slipknot" - which doesn't make sense really because I've not listened to Slipknot. It's actually recommended because it is a similar artist to Slipknot, but it's making an assumption about my having listened to Slipknot. {Screenshot}

I'll see if I can find anything else later, right now I'm just enjoying the music :)

I'm not sure if this was posted, but every time I skip a track while playing my radio the audio stops, yet the app looks like it's playing a track. To get it to work I have to press pause and then play. Using Mac OS X Lion.

The client just sent through a double-scrobble for Spaceman (here's proof). Details may or may not be gleaned from here.

Last.fm app crashes in the windows tray. I ran Winamp but didn't play any music. Last.fm icon appeared in tray and after I finished changing winamp skins (about 5mins) I tried to exit the app with right-click and the menu appeared black and crashed.

Happened two times in two days.

Didn't scrobble my iPod plays at all so lost around 120 plays which is a shame. Not sure if it's still somewhere in this version but it would be good to have the option to scrobble the iPod yourself like the old version had under Help>Diagnostics>iPod Scrobbling>Scrobble iPod

Not sure if these items have been addressed but here they are:

(Mac user)

1. The bouncing red arrow pointing to the task tray at the top of the screen in the introductory steps blocks the copy in the tour so you can't actually read it.

2. You can no longer hide the application in the Dock

3. It would be great if it were possible to have the client play on airport express speakers

Looks great, but Im having the issue of it not scrobbling on Windows XP Sp3...which is a bummer becausae that is what I listen to a majority of my music on

Can you stop asking the location of Spotify application at each startup? I do not use it.

Edit: under OSX 10.6.8

Thx.

Little feature request: After tagging something it would be nice if one could close the tagging window by hitting Enter. It worked in the old version.

To add onto my previous post where I am not about to scrobble directly from my laptop, Im also unable to get my iPod shuffle to "associate", therefore not able to scrobble from it either :(

Using MacOSX Lion.

I also do not use Spotify,and when I clicked 'Cancel' on the 'Where's Spotify?' window a Microsoft update tried to run. At this point the app crashed. I have the error report and a Charles session capturing this if that's any help, although it looks like it's not hard to reproduce.

On second launch (and after installing the Microsoft update for error reporting) I cancelled the 'Where's Spotify?' window and it was fine.
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After launching successfully, I clicked the 'Open iTunes' button. This did indeed open iTunes, but the last.fm app icon disappeared from the dock when I did this, despite still being open, which seems a bit odd considering the app window is still open.
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I have an entry in my scrobbles list that says 'You've listened to [unknown] 0 times, but not this track.'

I'm aware I could have an artist as 'Unknown' in my mp3 collection, but it doesn't make sense saying that I've listened to them '0 times' and then to say 'but not this track'. (And why would it have scrobbled something I've not listened to?)

Also had 'You've listened to Prong 0 times, but not this track.', and a bunch of others.
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When listening to my recommended radio, a lot of the time the artist details took a hell of a long time to load, whilst others were pretty much instant. There doesn't seem to be much difference in the size of the content, so it seems odd.
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It'd be amazing if you could prevent it from playing Christmas tracks on you recommended radio if it's not Christmas. I would also like the moon on a stick with that ;)
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Also, where's the Facebook app gone? Selecting 'Go to app' from the app Facebook page just lands you on the last.fm home page.