Vagalume: Client for Last.fm and compatible services

Vagalume is a Last.fm client written using GTK+. It should work on any GNOME-based system, but it was originally designed work on Maemo, the platform used by some Nokia devices such as the 770, N800, N810 and N900

Vagalume on a PC	Vagalume on a Nokia N900

Vagalume is free software released under the GNU GPL. It has been developed and tested mainly on a desktop PC running Debian GNU/Linux and on the Nokia N800/N810/N900 but it has been confirmed to work in the Nokia 770 as well. Vagalume also works in MeeGo-based devices and there is experimental support for MS Windows.

Its main features are:

• It plays Last.fm radio streams (using the v2.0 API)
• It supports Libre.fm and other compatible servers
• Support for different radio stations (personal, neighbours, loved tracks, ..., or any lastfm:// URL)
• It supports marking tracks as loved or banned
• It can tag artists, tracks and albums
• It can send recommendations to other users
• It can add tracks to your playlist
• It can download free tracks to your hard disk
• It scrobbles tracks so they appear in your Last.fm webpage (this can be disabled at runtime).
• It sends Now Playing information following the Audioscrobbler Realtime Submission Protocol v1.2.
• Supports discovery mode
• Bookmarks
• Remote control
• Gettext support (translated into many languages)

The latest version is Vagalume 0.8.5, released on 01 Jul 2011. Read the list of changes here.

Downloads:

• Nokia Internet Tablets:
  • Recommended: from Maemo extras.
  • Alternate: browse repository.maemo.org:
    • Internet Tablet OS 2006 (Nokia 770).
    • Internet Tablet OS 2007 (Nokia N800).
    • Internet Tablet OS 2008 (Nokia N810, updated N800).
    • Maemo 5 (Nokia N900).
• Debian GNU/Linux:
  • Vagalume is officially in Debian.
• Ubuntu:
  • Vagalume is officially in Ubuntu.
• Gentoo:
  • 32-bit (x86) users:
    $ layman -a serkan-overlay
    $ echo "media-sound/vagalume ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
    $ emerge -av vagalume
  • 64-bit (amd64) users:
    $ layman -a serkan-overlay
    $ echo "media-sound/vagalume ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
    $ emerge -av vagalume
• Fedora:
  • You can install Vagalume from the RPM Fusion 3rd-party repository.
    • How to enable the repository.
    • How to verify the GPG keys.
    • To install Vagalume type `yum install vagalume'.
• Moblin:
  • Get it from the Igalia repository.
• MS Windows:
  • This is an experimental release. Go here for details.
• Source code

Vagalume has a page at garage.maemo.org, where among other things you'll find forums and mailing lists. Currently there are two mailing lists called vagalume-users (for general discussion, ideas, comments, help, ...) and vagalume-devel (for developers). Both lists are public.

Bugs? Browse existing or report a new one.

Questions? See the Vagalume FAQ.

The Vagalume source code is hosted at Gitorious.

We also have a Vagalume Users group in Last.fm

Vagalume is sponsored by Igalia and is being developed by a team led by Alberto Garcia with some contributions from people around the world. Feel free to contact us for any questions or comments that you have.

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