For all of you music junkies out there (including myself) and those who have small music libraries but love internet radio, you should be happy to hear that a new way to enjoy Last.fm has just been added to the N82.
The popular Skype/IM application Fring has just been update with addon support for Last.fm functionality. I haven't tried out this new feature myself, but here is what the official Fring blog has to say...
You can search & tune-in to your favorite artists, view album artwork, skip tracks you don’t like, even show your love or ban them, and all of this activity via fring will automatically update your Last.fm online account.
So, where does the friends bit come in? Well, in case you didn’t know, at fring we love nothing more than a great big mash-up. So as well as the music experience itself, we’ve grabbed all of your Last.fm friends and put them into a dynamic friends list so you can view what they’re listening to on Last.fm, in real-time, right now. Cool huh?
A video demonstration...
I'd say it's pretty darn cool. Check out fring.com for more information.
Move Over Fring, Mobbler Still Rules
Let's now move onto my favorite Last.fm solution, Mobbler. This application has really taken shape since it's first release and has been molded into a beautiful application that looks like it's built into the S60 phone by default. I've already talked about this app before, for some of you new to this site. These newest updates have been around for awhile now, I've just lagged on informing you guys. Check out the changelogs...
A summary of changes to Mobbler.
0.3.4 - Fixed some major problems in 0.3.3
* Many people had problems with 0.3.3 mainly on E series devices (phone rebooting when skipping track etc) this was down to incorrect use of the audio equaliser which has now been fixed
* This release should also finally fix the problem with installing the downloaded update.
0.3.3 - Improved audio playback performance
* No audio skipping when using other applications! (audio player is now in a separate thread)
* Start buffering the next track when the current track is still playing, but has finished downloading
* Added an audio equaliser
* Export the track queue to a log file to be uploaded by scrobble uploader on a PC
* Can now pause the music player and this is not counted as stopping the track - long tracks like podcasts were being scrobbled multiple times when paused because of this
* Other minor improvements and fixes
Click here to visit the Mobbler homepage.
* Keep in mind both of these applications use a lot of data. I, Mobbler, nor Fring are responsible for your phone bill if you don't have an unlimited data plan.
