Last.fm app for android MP3 player

I've just downloaded the Last.fm app for my android based Samsung MP3 player (i.e not a phone). Annoyingly, there's no option for listening to my radio stations. The player is Samsung's stab at the iPod Touch and as such, has wi-fi and I'd subscribed in order to listen to my stations (like I used to do with my old iPod Touch via wi-fi) but there simply isn't the tab at the top called Radio.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but no luck.

Does anyone know if this mean that the android version has to detect a network signal before allowing you to listen to a radio station, even if you choose to use wi-fi?

It's a Samsung Galaxy S Wi-Fi 3.6 (YP-GS1) and runs Gingerbread 2.3.6

As I say, has all the features of the phones, just without the calling capabilities.

When I try to install it it asks 'Do you want to install this application?' I hit 'Install' and then it immediately says 'Application not installed'

I'm afraid I already had that set before I tried to install.

If I have that setting turned off it won't even let me load it. When I have it set to allow, it loads but fails the install as above

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Under Settings > Location and Security, make sure Use Wi-fi to find location is checked. That might re-locate your device to the UK. :)

Yeah, normally a Wi-Fi device like a tablet wont return a cell network country code at all, but it seems Samsung has decided to return Korea instead on this specific device, which means our app wont allow radio streaming.

I'll reach out to our Google contact and see if they can ask Samsung about this, perhaps Samsung will fix it in a future firmware update. I'll also look into using our geo-IP database to determine the country instead of relying on the cell network in a future update.

Just tried it and It says 'Phone Type: 0' as well as 'Network Type: 0'.

Hope that helps

(as to why it's returning KR, I feel it's just Samsung being lazy. They have, quite literally, taken the Galaxy S phone, removed the SIM card tray, and branded it a Media Player. There are so many features on it that are hangovers from it being a phone, such as 'Set ringtone' and 'import from SIM card'. I just think it's on KR because that's the last place it was as a 'phone' )

Thanks for that. I'll keep an eye out for the update.

Thank you

The SDK documentation says the "phone type" refers to what kind of modem the device has (GSM, CDMA, etc.), so a 3G tablet should return one of those values like a normal phone. You can test this on your device by installing this apk: http://static.last.fm/client/android/RadioRegionTest3.apk and seeing what numbers it says for phone type and network type.

I can't answer whether we could legally allow streaming over wifi only in other countries, as that's up for our lawyers to work out. But from a user experience perspective, I think it would be confusing if the tab appears and disappears based on what network you're connected to. Users would expect the tab to always be there or never be there, as it works now.