Last.fm does not offer an obvious option to play music streams in an external music player. It is however possible to obtain the stream url for several radio streams from last.fm and use them in your favorite music player. This is also an excellent opportunity to record those songs using that player. I do recommend XMPlay for this.
You need to do the following to obtain the stream information: The first step would be to compute the MD5 sum of your password. You can do that at rednoize for example. Once you got that information you copy and paste the following url into your browser, edit the two variables username and password and hit enter. (one line of course)
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/handshake.php?version=1.1.1&
platform=linux&username=
&passwordmd5=
Replace
The important part of the few lines of text that appear is the one beginning with session=
Remember that part and go to the last.fm homepage. What you need to do know is to seek for something that you want to listen to. We need to create a last.fm:// url that we need later to tune in. Some examples:
lastfm://artist/
lastfm://artist/
lastfm://globaltags/
lastfm://user/username
You can basically just add an artistname, tag or username to that url. To tune in we need to open another url that looks like this:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=
url=
The SessionID is the one that you got from the first url while the last.fm URL is the one that you got from the above examples. A valid one would look like this:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=
url=lastfm://artist/Bridge+to+Solace&debug=0
If the response is ok the text in the browser will say so otherwise it will say failed.
Open your favorite music player and open the url http://87.117.229.85:80/last.mp3?Session=
To sum it up again:
1. Go to Rednoize and look up your mp5 sum of your password
2. Open http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/handshake.php?version=1.1.1&
platform=linux&username=
passwordmd5=
3. Create a last.fm:// url
4. Open http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/radio/adjust.php?session=
url=
5. If the response is ok load the stream url from the first browser response in your music player.
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Wow thankx to share this nice tip ! I have to try this !
hi! thanks for sharing. this works great now! trying to make it work with a barebones swf mp3 player off a server with php. :)
heh…this is fun, i can just set the radio to my favourite station and then use the stream url in my download app to save the stream into a nice fat mp3 on my harddisk. :)
Thanks a lot for this… I adapted it into a shell script and now any last.fm artist is only a single command away :)
Rednoize is gone, and using other md5 converters, doesn’t work. The error returned upon creating that url using the username/converted password is:
session=FAILED
msg=padd md5 not 32 len
So, this is tutorial is sorta bunk/outdated now. Any chance we can get a new working version?
Sorry, disregard my last post… I was replacing the password in the url, not appending it, heh.
Hello,
thanks for the very useful post.
I would like to know if you know how to recover the stream of a specific song, such as the one in this URL:
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Fray/_/How+to+Save+a+Life
Thanks