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samedi, mai 1 2010

DAS: Request for bug reports

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I’ve been warned a few weeks ago (many actually…) of a problem with DAS : the extension was able to catch the name of a song played on Deezer and to display it on the status bar, but not to send it to Last.fm. I checked myself and faced the same problem, however I couldn’t find the time to figure out what happened (although it is a matter of minutes) at that time.

Now, as I wanted to (finally) fix this, I was surprised to see that it’s working again (I checked on two distinct machines). Last.fm people are currently working on the API so perhaps a change made my calls go wrong for a while… Anyway, if you still have a problem with the communication to Last.fm (or anything else) : please send me a mail describing what happen or don’t happen (including DAS-related messages in Firefox’s error console).

A word about that : please do not write some kind of bug report/request on the extension’s page on AMO : I don’t receive them as mail, I don’t go check the reviews and most of all, it is not the right place to do so.
Instead, please write directly to gliss-at-acadis-dot-org instead or (better) fill a detailed bug report on the repository at Github : http://github.com/gliss/das/issues.

I must admit also that I almost don’t use Deezer anymore so I am not aware of the problems by myself. Besides, as living in Canada, I don’t have access to many sites like Jiwa.fm. I am mainly and massively using Grooveshark.com which is (in my opinion) way better than Deezer… along with the classical channel at Radio-Canada.
The best way of scrobbling Grooveshark would be to parse the “recently played” RSS feed if you have an account, however I don’t think it should take place in a Firefox extension, a small daemon or even a webapp would do better and much simpler. If there is another way that integrates well in DAS, well, I’ll let you know !

samedi, août 1 2009

Say Hi! to DAS v0.2.1

Since the publication of DAS 0.2 last week, a lot of things changed at Deezer.com and I received a number of mails regarding the blackout of the extension. Unfortunately I was in holidays, far away from any stable Internet connection. Then I took a few hours this evening to fix all this mess, and you can now find DAS 0.2.1 on AMO.

The most noteworthy change from Deezer is that the communication between the player and their gateway is now JSON-based, the format is easily readable and seems to contain more informations.

I hope that it won’t change again in the few next months since, as I said earlier, I am moving to Montréal so it’ll be difficult to make any update. Please report any problem however ;)

mercredi, juillet 22 2009

DAS v0.2 is out !

A few hours ago, I released the 0.2 version of DAS. I made official the support of Firefox 3.5 despite it was actually already working (but Firefox reject the extension as long as it’s not clearly specified), and the most important, I replaced the Deezer-v2 behavior with a v3-compliant one.

However, I have to apologize because this version has been made in a hurry. First of all, I am moving to Canada, and I may have no Internet access for a month or two, starting … tomorrow ! Additionally, since today, Deezer.com forces the use of its V3, then a compatible addon was compulsory. Anyway, it is working, but not the way I intended to, since I wanted to make some major changes in the code, in particular to support multiple grabbers et scrobblers.
You may notice something quite disturbing: the statusbar is updated only after about 35 sec after the song began. Actually, the HTTP transaction I am parsing to find out what is playing occurs in Deezer3 after a bunch of others, whereas it was at the very beginning before. But now, the title of your Firefox window changes to reflect the song played, and immediately, then I’ll try to use this behavior in the future (despite I still haven’t found any event thrown at a title change).

You’ll find this version on AMO as usual. It is still labeled as experimental, I’ll request a code review for the next version.

Have fun ;)

PS: for the few ones interested, here is an example of the server<->player communication catched :

 (dump has been moved to http://p.acadis.org/iHPSFXmM/ since special chars were breaking RSS feeds)

dimanche, mai 24 2009

DAS - a Deezer to Last.fm compatibility bridge

If, like me, you used Last.fm quite often to… well basically know what you listen and discover other things to listen but you are know more using streaming platforms like Deezer.com than regular music players, you may regret that there is still no compatibility between theses.

Then if you want an up-to-date Last.fm profile while using Deezer I may have something for you.

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