Audioscrobbler will be back

This is the message on Audioscrobbler pages:

Audioscrobbler Has Evolved

We’ve been working on a brand new site for a few weeks now.

Here it is: The New Site!

Update your links and bookmarks if need be.
We’ll set up automatic-redirection next week, to ease the transition. Happy ‘scrobbling 🙂

The Audioscrobbler.com site will re-surface soon as a development platform,
which will allow lots more exciting applications to be built around your music profile.
There’ll be webservices and rss feeds for everything imaginable, we promise 🙂

See there, they are saying they WILL have official “audioscrobblerness” back again. Just have to wait.

OK, as long as the molasses stuff goes away. lastfm is still so slooowwww. It’s not my computer. I have a fast processor and DSL. 🙂

So I’ve done what I haven’t in the past though, actually tried to MAKE Last.fm work for me as a radio station. It’s working for me. I tried it a couple times in the old setup and didn’t have the patience to look for how to make it work (it wasn’t my lack of knowing what to do, I’m ‘puter savvy) so I was pleased to see how easy it was to get it working now with the new version of lastfm out.

It’s worked alright except though for awhile when I quit the player and then went to start it again it wouldn’t load a station, it was “trying” to connect, it was some kind of slower thing for the site, no doubt. I tried to load the page there and it wouldn’t load at all in IE and took forever in Firefox, but eventually came in. I use firefox all the time, and only IE when forced to. So then I went to look for a new station since the one I had been listening to wasn’t coming in, and I had to quit the player to get it to allow me to search for a new “similar artist” station. So I did, and it started the new one up right away.

I liked the first one, I looked for “def leppard” and the station had lots that I like but do not have to play on my equipment, CD, Vinyl, etc.

The one I have on now I’m going to quit and see if I can load something else. I don’t like it much. I won’t say what it is, I only typed in a group name I know of and that the genre was something I might like, but though I like some of the genre, I despise is overall. 🙂

OK, good, it let go of the old station and changed mid-stream. Yeah! But … first, I clicked “listen now” and as it was “connecting” the other song was still playing and I hit the don’t ever play again button and it didn’t stop at all, then the new station started to play and played several long seconds, then suddenly it stopped that song and went to a new one. So what happened was a sluggish button action caused me to slash out of a song that wasn’t yet playing, it didn’t register on the playing song, but registered on a song that played later, that I liked alright. Oh well. If the site gets faster I can change that in my profile, but when I did try to load that earlier, forget it. It wouldn’t load. A faster regular page load will convince me to try again.

As for the look of the site, I’ve seen some complaints on the color of the the header, etc. Saying it’s pink or pinkish. On my screen it’s red-cranberry-red. So it’s dependant on monitor settings and who knows who created it and what their monitor is like compared to this or that users monitor. 🙂

I know I have had that kind of struggle with this site trying to get colors on my comments boxes how I want. Looking at this monitor I’m using now and comparing to an LCD laptop you can see the colors render totally different. It’s frustrating with the reds and pinks, so that’s the deal with lastfm, it’s a red color. It’s not as deep red on some monitors, no doubt, since it’s a nice deep cranberry on mine. 😀

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