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OS X developer needed

17/01/08 22:36
Currently the project is lacking an active OS X developer and as such there's currently no support for leopard. TheLastRipper, is written in C# and running on Mono on OS X. Most of the codebase is already written or ported from another platform. Currently we need someone who'd want to maintain the OS X release once in a while. Knowledge of OS X and C# would be a good thing, but only determination to learn and have fun is required. If you think this could be fun don't hesitate to mail me (jopsen@gmail.com) or leave a comment at issue 83. I'll gladly assist development, though I have limited understanding of OS X.

Release of TheLastRipper 1.3.0 for Windows

12/01/08 21:37
Development on TheLastRipper have been stalled for a while, but thanks to Andreas’ work we’re now able to release TheLastRipper 1.3.0 for Windows. It features:
  • New GUI station selection improvements.
  • Using the new last.fm protocol version 1.2 (Skip now works!).
  • Additional management features like skip songs already recorded.
  • A few other minor details…
This release is largely created by Andreas, since I haven’t really had time for it. Which is also why it’s not ported to Linux yet, though the executables with Windows.Forms GUI runs fine under Mono/Linux, we’d like a GTK# GUI because it’s much prettier. I hope I’ll find time to do a Linux port soon…
Now some might be wondering why it’s called version 1.3.0 and not 1.2.0 - well, what can I say: It’s a “known issue” icon_smile I think I accidentally incremented it one too much, and since we can’t really delete downloads from GoogleCode it’s going to be version 1.3.0 instead. It would also look weird to have a version 1.2 featured and a version 1.3 deprecated.
Anyway I don’t think the version number thing is so bad either, I think I previously stated that there wouldn’t come a version 1.2.0, because I was going to rewrite the codebase. Because a rewrite would be needed to make a clean, easy portable and extendable backend implementation of the Last.fm protocol version 1.2. I started development of such a clean backend, but it’s still stuck in development, since I don’t have time for it at the moment.

First final OS X release, version 1.1.1

15/09/07 16:26
I’m happy to announce that we’ve finally ported the bugfix from the 1.1.1 release to OS X. As reported earlier all prior version of TheLastRipper are broken, due to minor changes on the serverside. This means that we haven’t had a working OS X version for about 2 weeks, the Windows and Linux versions were patched within 3 days, but since we don’t really have an OS X developers on the team this took a while longer. Anyway, it should work now, we’ve also added menu entries linking to the help pages on our wiki. Our beta was close, but not all done, now we think that we’ve got a fairly stable and feature complete version for OS X, therefore this release will be known as TheLastRipper for OS X version 1.1.1, yes it’s final not a beta.

All prior versions of TheLastRipper broken!

05/09/07 13:26
I regret to annonce that all current prior versions of TheLastRipper are broken. It seams that Last.fm dropped support for had a bug in their 1.1 protocol, this weekend. All streams optained from this protocol returns “HTTP/1.0 667 Not enough content left to play this station”. I think it’s a shame, considering the amount of opensource audio players out there with playback support for Last.fm version 1.1. Since all of these audio players, including TheLastRipper have been broken.
Nevertheless, I and some other last.fm users have developed an unofficial documentation of the new last.fm protocol version 1.2. I’ll release it shortly, and I’d expect a implementation of this new protocol for TheLastRipper to start rather shortly too. If you want to stay updated on this issue, you can subscribe to issue 63. You do that by clicking on the star.

UPDATE:
Last.fm didn’t drop support for 1.1 protocol it was just gone for the weekend + Monday. Though a minor change in the login scheme caused TheLastRipper to freeze, this issue have now been fixed, and latest release of TheLastRipper works (Version 1.1.1). We’ll still be working on an opensource implementation of the Last.fm 1.2 protocol.

Release of TheLastRipper 1.1.0 for Windows and Linux

20/08/07 09:30
Like I wrote yesterday, a release of TheLastRipper have been in the workings for a while. Now the final details have finally been solved and I’ve released TheLastRipper for both Linux and Windows. Among some of the most interesting changes are:
  • ID3v2 support (Issue 5)
  • International characters (Issue 4)
  • Perfect clipping of songs (Issue 6)
  • Fix tab-index and improve UI (Issue 41)
  • Handle exceptions when launching browser on windows (Issue 45)
  • General exception handling dialog (Issue 46)
  • Support for http proxies (Issue 44)
  • Better overall stability
You may download the new release of TheLastRipper from our project page now!Read more...

TheLastRipper 0.9 Beta for Mac OS X, with Cocoa interface!

19/08/07 23:52
A new release of TheLastRipper have been in the workings for a while and now it just about to be done. Among some of the new features are:
  • Perfect clipping of songs
  • ID3v2 tag
  • Support for proxy settings
  • Better threading
  • International character support
  • Many minor bugfixes
These features have been under development for a while and the Windows and Linux clients in SVN already have these features, they will be release as 1.1 very soon too. But last weekend me (Jonas) and Rene of TheLastRipper developer team, decided that it was time to get a beautiful port for OS X. So we started out with the 1.1 codebase from SVN and installed XCode, Mono and CSharpXcodePlugin on a Mac. Then we wrote one of those simple “hallo world” applications in Cocoa#, after becoming a little familiar with Interface Builder and Cocoa#, we started the development of a client using Cocoa#.Read more...

TheLastRipper 0.2.1 for Mac OS X and 1.0.2 for Linux

22/03/07 12:37
It’s been a while since release 1.0.0, well short while at least. About a weeks ago we released a bugfix version 1.0.1 (Mac version 0.2), this was a rather big bugfix. Before 1.0.1 there was a lot of theading issues, that made the program practically broken on dual core Windows systems. We’ve fixed most of these issues, and now both the Windows and Linux versions have become more stable. The issues fixed in version 1.0.1 was those listed on our known issues pages.Read more...

TheLastRipper now in 1.0.1 and 0.2.0 beta.

12/03/07 19:07
We have been working hard to fix some of the worst bugs in 1.0.0, and we are now ready to release 1.0.1 for the Windows and Linux platform. The Mac OS X version is now available in version 0.2.0 and is currently a beta. Read more...

TheLastRipper release 1.0.0

17/02/07 17:41
The last week I’ve been working a lot on TheLastRipper, an audo stream ripper for Last.fm. first I got the project hosted at google code. Later I ported the code to Windows using Windows.Forms. And as of yesterday the code was finally stable enough to be released. There’s still some inexplainable issues, which I’ll post later on the known issues page of each platform. The releases can be found at the project page: http://code.google.com/p/thelastripperRead more...