Hello,

when I want to set an album object's info, I get the next error:
Rockstar::Album.new('Thievery Corporation', 'Radio Retalation').load_info

NoMethodError: undefined method `to_plain_text' for nil:NilClass

There's no checking in album's summary info, if it's nil or not, or maybe the API changed.

Thanks in advance,
Miki

Add track.love

http://www.lastfm.de/api/show?service=260

Will it be possible to get email adresses for pages via the rockstar gem?

I used rockstar in the past without any problem, but recently (I'm not able to know by how much time) I'm getting problems with artists. If I try the example in readme:

# Get artists and albums for user
library = Rockstar::Library.new

puts 'Artists'
library.artists(false, :user => 'jnunemaker').each { |a| puts a.name }

I get:

> library.artists(false, :user => 'jnunemaker').each { |a| puts a.name }
EOFError: end of file reached

I have no idea about why it's happening, do you have any idea?
Thank you

p.s.
I'm using the latest version of Rockstar

I just wonder why only the Album info available. We would like to use the Track info, because we need to know the duration of a track. Will it be possible soon?

The API is ready for it:
http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=356

The image code is not refactored and needs serious dryness work :)

artist = Rockstar::Artist.new(nil, :include_info => true, :mbid => '65f4f0c5-ef9e-490c-aee3-909e7ae6b2ab') # Metallica
artist.name # => nil

Please see pull request's commit message for the larger-level reason for this (returned artist.name is getting set from searched name, not last.fm's returned name).

Pull request: #32

At the moment there is only caching on object level. e.g. user.recommendations is only called once if not forced to update itself. If the user object is created again, the http call will be send a second time. The last.fm http response times are not very fast, maybe I should cache the http calls aswel.

Does someone think this is needed?

Seems that we are missing tags for artists.

"tags": [
   "rap",
   "hip-hop",
   "rnb",
   "r&b",
   "young money"
 ],

And seems that this is a *must when downloading artists information.

At the moment I am unsure if I should do this, but if someone votes for this, I will spend a few hours into this

None of the methods for returning attributes from within the Artist load_info method are returning objects.

Example: Rockstar::Artist.new("Artist Name").url does not return anything.

If there is an & in the album title, the song can't be scrobbeled

Just wanted to get a quick sanity check here... I'm seeing 3 failures on the master branch at the moment:

1. Error:
   test_can_scrobble_tracks(TestTrack):
   ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (5 for 0)
   ./test/unit/test_track.rb:49:in initialize' ./test/unit/test_track.rb:49:innew'
   ./test/unit/test_track.rb:49:in `test_can_scrobble_tracks'

2. Error:
   test_can_send_current_playing_track(TestTrack):
   ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (5 for 0)
   ./test/unit/test_track.rb:57:in initialize' ./test/unit/test_track.rb:57:innew'
   ./test/unit/test_track.rb:57:in `test_can_send_current_playing_track'

3. Failure:
   test_should_get_recommendated_events(TestUser) [./test/unit/test_user.rb:267]:
   814 expected but was

Expected?

There is no parameter to limit the queries, e.g. for user.getTopTracks , the API of last.fm offers this, but the rockstar gem doesn't use this right now.

I need to fetch recommended Artists . I am new for the Gem , Can you help me get auth.session.key

The session_key is returned by auth.session.key

def recommended_artists(session_key, force=false)
  get_instance("user.getRecommendedArtists", :recommendations, :artist, {:user => @username, :sk => session_key}, force)
end

The api provides a option to see if the recent track is NowPlaying http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=278

is there currently a way to do this?

It seems that the #images method on artist calls load_info, but this method doesn't exist on the artist class. A version of the method does exist on album (for getting album information of course), and appears to be called when :include_info => true is passed at initialization.

Is this a work in progress, with the idea that any model should be able to pass :include_info with initialization to do an API lookup and populate the model with data? It seems odd right now that, for example, when I initialize an artist, that there's no way for me to retrieve the mbid, url, or any other characteristics of the model other than the information I originally supplied.

Or am I missing some obvious way to do that? Thanks!