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Last.fm had updated their API for external applications. At the moment, you can't use the audio streaming functionality of the Last.fm Desktop. I'm working on a new version of the Last.fm Desktop to support the official streaming protocol. To use the new version of Last.fm Desktop, you have to be a subscriber of Last.fm.
You can subscribe to a newsletter, to get informed when the new version is available. The mail address will only used to send you a email about the release of the upcoming version of Last.fm Desktop.
adding official last.fm client id and updating the user interface
You need a Last.fm account and a playlist with 15 songs. You can get the account for free. You also need the newest Adobe AIR runtime. If you doesn't have it, you can install it in the upper right corner.
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Adobe AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, Flex® Builder™ 3, Flash CS3 Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you. You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, as well as much more.
If you want to launch the application directly form the lastfm website, you have to add some information the registry of window.
Create a file with the extension .reg and open the file with a texteditor. Add following lines:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lastfm]
@="URL:lastfm Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lastfm\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lastfm\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lastfm\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Last.fm Desktop\\LastFMDesktop.exe\" \"%1\""
ReplaceC:\\Program Files\\Last.fm Desktop\\LastfmDesktop.exe with the installation path of the LastFM Desktop Application . Note that backslashes must be doubled and the additional slashes and quotes before the path must not be removed. Save the file, then double-click it to insert into the Windows registry. See Registering an Application to a URL Protocol for additional information.
Discovery Mode is a subscriber-only radio feature. With Discovery Mode enabled, Last.fm will only play you music which isn't already in your profile. This way, you'll always hear new music on the radio.
If you enable this option the player automatically downloads the newest version of application.