Author: Sam Steele

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Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch version 1.0.1 Released

  • Post category:iPhone

Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch version 1.0.1 is now available on iTunes. Here’s what’s new:

  • Better recommendations
  • Support for multiple playlists for subscribers
  • Support for My Library
  • Song name on lock screen
  • Less buffering over 3G
  • Retain the search results if you come back to them
  • Bug, stability and performance fixes

To install the update, click “Check for updates” at the bottom of your iTunes Applications list, or tap the Updates tab of the App Store on your device.

Also, we’ve set up an official group for support requests and feedback here: http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+for+iPhone+and+iPod+Touch

Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch now available on iTunes

  • Post category:iPhone

We are pleased to announce the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Sam Steele, our iPhone development army of one, has been cranking away at a full blown Last.fm app on Apple’s mobile platforms for months now and the results are nothing short of insanely great.

Read the rest of the official announcement over at the Last.fm blog and grab Last.fm from the iTunes Store (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Spain for now).

Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch

  • Post category:iPhone

Listen to free streaming radio on your iPhone with Last.fm. Last.fm allows you to listen to your favourite artists, discover new music, and share music with the friends in your iPhone contact list. (http://www.last.fm) Coming soon to the iTunes App Store! Listen to more than 4 million songs over EDGE, 3G, or WiFi.

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trac mysql schema optimization

  • Post category:Linux

For anyone using Trac with the MySQL database backend, check out this ticket: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/6986

I applied the database schema changes on the MobileScrobbler trac site, and it’s reduced the time it takes to modify or create a ticket from several seconds down to less than a second. Finally, no more error 500 pages when an operation takes too long to complete!

I win!

  • Post category:Life

Yay! I beat adventure mode in Peggle! Final score: 15,659,720!

MobileScrobbler 1.4.3

  • Post category:iPhone

New Features

  • New radio player HUD contributed by Smooquai
  • New radio icons contributed by CompC
  • Add an option to queue tracks while device is asleep
  • Updated French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Russian translations

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a crash that can occur when playing a non-existant playlist
  • Fix a crash that can occur when the last.fm server is unreachable
  • Stop caching playlists
  • Improved detection of duplicate scrobbles

Head on over to the MobileScrobbler website for installation instructions, screenshots, and more!

Fail Whale

  • Post category:Life

General Tso’s Shrimp = AMAZING

West

  • Post category:Life

I will be spending the week down in Key West with Jay! If you need to reach me, I’ll still be checking my email occasionally. See you all in a week!

MobileScrobbler 1.4.0

  • Post category:iPhone

New Features

  • Redesigned layout
  • Redesigned Now Playing screens by Jan Garcia
  • Browse your friends and listen to their radio stations
  • Keeps a list of your recent radio stations so you can easily restart them
  • Configure MobileScrobbler settings through Preferences.app
  • Multitouch gestures to ban, love, and skip tracks
  • View your top artists, top tracks, and top albums
  • Ban and love tracks from the Recent Tracks list
  • Remove ban and love from the Recently Banned and Recently Loved lists
  • Browse a top listener’s profile by tapping their username
  • Display arbitrary track metadata by passing command line arguments -track, -artist, and -album
  • Empty the metadata and image caches with the tap of a button
  • Compatible with firmware 1.1.3

Bug Fixes

  • Increase scrobbler daemon startup delay
  • Continue updating the progress scrubber while scrolling
  • Hide the ‘Now Playing’ button if nothing is playing
  • Don’t scrobble podcasts and audio books
  • Require confirmation for loving / banning tracks
  • Plug a few memory leaks
  • Faster loading of track and user data

MobileScrobbler 1.4.0 should be available in Commuity Sources in a few days. Until then, it is available from my beta repository at http://dev.c99.org/iphone-beta/