Last.fm
I love the last.fm radio. Recently I made a transition from the windows operating system to the ubuntu intrepid. I love amarok too, but sadly it wasn’t able to play the last.fm radio. Upon googling around, I found that apparently last.fm had decomissioned their old protocol on the 31st of January, 2009 and thus amarok 1.4 wasn’t able to stream music anymore. I was disheartened. I began searching for alternative appliations to play the radio.
Lastfm client was the obvious choice. I used it to play radio in the windows environment. However, I met with another problem. Installed, account entered, proxy set – but it wasn’t able to play too. I have no idea what the problem is. It skips through a lot of songs before giving a connection error. Again failed !
Next I came across this Vagalume last.fm client. It has support for gnome environment. It installed and was pretty easy to configure. It has all the features of the official last.fm client, namely play all the radio stations (neighbours, loved tracks and personal library included), ban/love a track, edit tags for a track and also scrobble. The last.fm page now shows
Listening now using Vagalume – Tuned to 
Megadeth Radio
Yeah, you can select a radio based on a global artist tag/genre tag and also select tracks from your own lobrary filtered by the tag. Additionally, Vagalume also changes pidgin status to reflect which song you are listening to at the moment – pretty much all that I was looking for.
Installing Vagalume is easy too. All you have to do is
sudo apt-get install vagalume
The application installs. You will find the aplication in your Applications->Sounds & Video. Configure the settings, namely your username, password and proxy if any and get tuned into your favourite station.
Happy listening. 
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