Whats inside?

There are soooo many different rates from x providers. If your contract includes a data flat rate, you can be happy and dont have to spend any thoughts about traffic. For everybody else it can get very dangerous and expensive. The application will be setup to the minimum traffice by default. If you change these settings, you have to deal with the costs. For further information, look at this table. These are estimated values and can be different!



After you installed the application, you can find an icon on your homescreen. Depending on your device type, the icon can look different.

Too loose? On the 8800 the icon will be visible immediately after the installation. Devices with a software version of 4.6.x or higher, the icon will be put in the folder "Downloads". If you want the icon on the home screen, hit the menu key and move the icon to a new folder (select root).

Now start the application and do the main settings. After that, you will be forwarded to your user profile, which is THE main screen for everything.

Nearly everything on the screen is clickable. Blue printed texts can be clicked all the time. All other functions can be found in the screen menu. Please have a further look to the different screen descriptions.

A rule of last.fm is, that 7 day old data must be deleted. The check will be performed on the application startup and concerns data and images. So you should use the app on a regulary base or at least, dont be surprised if data is missing...

ToDos for 1.0.3:
[X] Change of setup process (continue without sesssion key)
[X] More Connection options
[X] Restriction to WiFi connections
[X] Layout changes to match Firmware 5.0
[X] Support for Firmware 5.0
[ ] Versions for 4.1 or higher

ToDos for 1.0.4:
[ ] Support for touchscreen devices
[ ] Tag screens
[ ] Key shortcuts in player
[ ] Better ID tag lookup

Bugs:
[ ] Connection problems on some devices?

Your user profile is the main screen of the application. On the first start, your user infos and last played tracks will be loaded automatically. Your account image will be loaded too. Thats the only image, which will be loaded automatically!

On this screen you can see the following informations: User name, name, age, gender, country, your playcount, playlist count (if loaded), shouts count (if loaded), friends count (if loaded) and your last played tracks.

Blue text parts can be focues and clicked. Artist and track names can be clicked too. Over the menu you can access all other screens of the applications.

The application can be used as a media player too. All MP3's or other readable formats will be searched on your media card automatically. The player can scrobble your tracks live or after x tracks. You can post your current playing track to last.fm too. If configured, the track data will be loaded from the last.fm/musicbrainz (including the image) website. This will force a higher data traffic, so be carefull! The player provides the following controls: Previous track, start, stop, pause, next track, repeat (track/album) and a volume control.



You can play the following audio formats: mp3, wav, au, midi, mp4 und amr. The application can load the IDv1 and IDv2 tags from MP3's. If no tags are available, the track name will be parsed. The track seconds will be loaded automatically if not set by the last.fm data. This will cost you performance because its very complicated to calculate that. If the MP3 contains image data, it will be extracted.

The files must be located on a media card (sd card). I recommend to create a directory e.g. music which contains your files. The directory will be parsed only, if something has changed in it. If you use the root directory, the chance, that something has changed, is very high and will force another search on each application start. So, use a directory just for your audio files!

The player will provide different lists. By default the list "All files" will be used. You can choose from following lists:
- All files (Pic. 1)
- By artist (Pic. 2)
- By folder (Pic. 3)


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Here you can see all your last played tracks. The track images are deactivated by default to reduce the data traffic. From here you can open the track and artist screen.

Here you can see all the track informations like trackname, length, artist, playcounts, tags, album name. Planed are the following data for next releases: Releaes date, text, top listeners... Some data will be loaded from the musicbrainz page and are not available by default.

Here you can see all the album informations like album name, artist, playcounts and the tracks on this album. Some data will be loaded from the musicbrainz page and are not available by default.

Here you can see all the artist informations like the name, playcount, tags, albums and text...Some data will be loaded from the musicbrainz page and are not available by default.

Your top 15 tracks will be listet with the following data: artist, track name and playcount. You can choose between the selection: 7 days, 3, 6, 12 months or complete.

Your top 15 artists will be listet with the following data: name and playcount. You can choose between the selection: 7 days, 3, 6, 12 months or complete.

Your loved tracks will be listet on this screen. This screen is a little bit tricky, because you normally have several hundret! The loading will take place in pages. The first page will be loaded automatically. If there are more pages, you will be asked, if you wanna load these pages too. You cannot interrupt that, so please be carefull!

Here you can see your playlists with the following informations: Name, description, track count and duration.
You can open your playlist to see the tracks.

This screen lists all your shouts with a shortend text. You can open a shout to see the complete text. You can answer a shout, too.

Here you can see a list of your friends. In one of the next releases, you can open a friends profile.

If you start the application the first time, you will be redirected to a setup screen.

Screen 1
You have to enter your last.fm username and password in order to use the application. If you click on continue, a session key will be requested from the last.fm page, so you have to have a connection. You cannot continue without a session key.



Screen 2
On this screen you have to choose the data volume of your contract. Please be carefull! If you choose flatrate, the application will sync data all the time which will cause a HIGH TRAFFIC. If you are not sure, choose ~5 MB.



Screen 3
If you have inserted a media card, you can use the application as a audio player. In this case you have to choose a directory, which contains your audio files. Please read the "Player" section for more details.



Screen 4
Now you have to accept, that you are aware of the costs the application can produce and that you will pay them...

Here you can setup nearly everything of the application! This is a lot...

Common
This are the most common settings of the application. If you enter your username and password, a session key will be requested from the last.fm page automatically. Without that key you cannot do anything!

User	Last.fm username
Password	Last.fm password
Session-Key	From last.fm generated key during the login
Last.fm protocoll	Controls the protocoll detail level. If there are any errors, you can increase the level
Download limit in MB	For security reasons. You cannot download more data than the selected limit.

UI
Here you can configure everything you can see.
In the startup section you configure, which data will be loaded at the application start up:

Update profile	Updates your profile data (name, age, playcount ...)
Update last played tracks	Loads the last played tracks, by default 15 (see sync section)
Update shouts	Loads all your shouts
Update friends	Loads all your friends

In the common section you configure, what and how many you wanna load.

Load images on "Last played" view	Loads the track images on the last played views
Load images on "Playlist" view	Loads the track images on the playlist view
Load images on "Loved tracks" view	Loads the track images on the loved tracks view
Load image on artist page	Loads the image on the artist page
Load image on album page	Loads the image on the album page
Load image on track page	Loads the image on the track page
Image sizes	Controls, in which size the images will be loaded. Always ~XXXxXXX, loads the image in every case in the selected size ~XXXxXXX or smaller, checks first, if there is a image in this size or a smaller size. If there is no image, the best size will be downloaded
Load Musicbrainz data	Loads additional data of artists, tracks or albums. This increases your data volume!
Use graphical links	Activates/Deactivates clickable text links (On older devices like the 8800 graphical links reduces the performance!)
Toplist entry count	Sets the amount of top list entries which will be loaded
Last played count	Sets the amount of last played entries which will be loaded
Loved tracks count	Sets the amount of loved tracks entries which will be loaded
Font size	Sets the font size of the application

Sync
Here you can configure the data sync settings.
In the cache section you can set up, how long the data will be hold until the reload.

Reload track data after	Reloads the data of the track after the selected time span
Reload artist data after	Reloads the data of the artist after the selected time span
Reload album data after	Reloads the data of the album after the selected time span

In the sync section you can set up an automatic data download.

Zuletzt gehört	Loads the last played data after the selected time span automatically
User profile	Loads the user profile data after the selected time span automatically
Loved tracks	Loads the loved tracks after the selected time span automatically
Shouts	Loads the shouts after the selected time span automatically
Friends	Loads the friends after the selected time span automatically
Top tracks	Loads the top tracks after the selected time span automatically
Top artists	Loads the top artists after the selected time span automatically
Playlists	Loads the playlists after the selected time span automatically

Player
Here you can configure everything about the player and the scrobbling.

Load track data	Loads the last.fm track data automatically if not done yet
Load track images	Loads the track image if not available yet
Preferred image size	Controls, in which size the image will be loaded. Always ~XXXxXXX, loads the image in every case in the selected size ~XXXxXXX or smaller, checks first, if there is a image in this size or a smaller size. If there is no image, the best size will be downloaded
Scrobble after	Sets, after how many tracks the app should scrobble (% of the duration). Only tracks with a minimum duration of 30 seconds will be scrobbled!
Scrobble last played track live	Transfers the played track to the last.fm page and shows it on your profile
Sync currently playing track	Transfers the currently playing track to the last.fm page and shows it on your profile
Search media files	Configures the time, when media files should be searched. will be searched manually: You have to start the seach manually on the player tab on application startup: Search starts when the application starts on player startup: Search starts when the player will be opened
ID3 tag analyzation	Configures the time, when the mp3 id tags will be looked up during playback: Loads the id tag, when the track will be played on file search: Loads the id tags during the file search
Track duration calculation	Configures the time, when the track duration will be calculated normal: The normal way, through bitrate and bytes. Very fast, but not always available extended: If the normal mode is not available, the duration will be calculated through the frame milliseconds. The whole file needs to be analyzed...Very slow
Media directory on sd card	Configures, in which directory the media files should be searched. Should never be the root directory of the card!

last.fm for BlackBerry

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