townx - Progress on Drupal Last.fm module - Comments

Cool

Leanne — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:23:19 -0500

I hope to see the new version. I was inspired to help my brother with the site he's building. :)

Me too, I'd be interested in

Data Lists — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:17:06 -0500

Me too, I'd be interested in finding out whether there's been any progress.

interested in finding out

amber — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:06:46 -0500

interested in finding out whether theres been any progress on this?good post, thanks

Nice Article!!

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I must update that i have dropped my website. it was just becoming too much of a pain. almost a week of dealing with my last host, backing everything up, transferring, encountering this issue, and other little things, seems a bit of a waste of time for me. i loves drupal and everything it does, but it really sucked up a lot of time this week. instead, i'm going to use other sites which host photos and blogs, this way i can really concentrate on photos and material instead of database issues and php memory.

testing

shinn — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:41 -0500

I don't think you need to do rigorous testing for any new release/plug-in from Drupal. Most of these improvements are platform and browser-independent. What you need to test against is security...

Commenters below, this

Garden DIY Directory — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:34:08 -0500

Commenters below, this plugin has been out for sometime on Drupal! (since Drupal 5).

If you could get this data,

Diamond Looping Blades — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:33:49 -0500

If you could get this data, think of all the reports you could extrapolate from the playlists - most listened to bands from visitors to your site, most listened to songs etc.

Would be cool if this patch

Graffiti On Canvas — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:01:17 -0500

Would be cool if this patch can be introduced to Drupal. I've discovered so much new music form other people's playlists.

I think something similar is

elliot — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:22:14 -0500

I think something similar is being considered for Drupal 7.

Any progress on this?

motocross helmets — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:49:27 -0500

Very interested in finding out whether theres been any progress on this? Had the patch made it onto drupal? Thanks

Alternative to Activity Stream

Guest — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:19:08 -0600

And I just came accross this:

http://drupal.org/project/lastfm

Hello again Brian. Thanks

elliot — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:35:41 -0600

Hello again Brian. Thanks for pointing that out to me: I hadn't come across it before.

Use the activity stream module

Brian Wood — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:10:17 -0600

http://drupal.org/project/activitystream

What is the status of this

David Peterson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:18:05 -0600

Hello, I am keen to see some files, but nothing is available. Can you fill me in on the status of this project as it sounds great. I am more than happy to lend some code time as well if necessary.

Would be nice if it could be

elliot — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:17:25 -0500

Would be nice if it could be fixed. I've handed the module over to someone else now, but hopefully they'll benefit from the fix.

Progress on Drupal Last.fm module

elliot — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:12:58 -0500

I had another issue with my Last.fm module the other day, which is why it's currently turned off. I think it happens if the Last.fm feeds are unavailable; causing the module's HTTP requests to time out; which in turn causes the whole of Drupal to time out as it waits for the response; which means my whole site falls over.

I've been using the drupal_http_request() function to run my HTTP requests, but unfortunately you can't adjust its timeout setting. So I dug around in that code, and have submitted a feature request and patch which enables you to customise the timeout when using this function. I then rewrote my module with shorter timeouts when making requests to Last.fm, which seems to do the trick.

Hopefully, if this patch makes it into Drupal, I will be able to release the new version of my module, complete with timeouts, so it won't cripple my site or anyone else's. It also adds a Last.fm recent tracks listing to user profiles (if they've set up their username) and has a block (only for one user - I just put it in for myself, really). It still needs a bit of work, and only handles recent tracks, but it's coming along fine.