Latest app (3.0) of Last.fm for iPhone is VERY buggy

Hi,

I've upgraded to Last.fm 3.0 on my iPhone4 (iOS 4.2.1) and could not help noticing how buggy it is. It keeps crashing randomly and also continuously gives me Server Communication Error when I try to search radio for something Last.fm does not know about. Definitely needs more work before it can be considered as a paid subscription service.

Thank you!
Konstantin

Initially the new app was very stable after I updated yesterday, however, it's been quite buggy today. The app has crashed a few times mid-track and I often get long pauses between tracks.

Yesterday I was listening with earbuds, today the iPod is on a speaker dock.

2nd gen 8Gb iPod Touch with iOS 4.2.1

I love the new update, it's a massive improvement over the last version.. It's only crashed on me once so far.

I was hoping that the new version will fix the persistent problems with iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2. Not only it didn't, it made things noticeably worse. The program crashes after one or two songs or stops advancing to the new track. The previous version at least worked sometimes - I cannot get this one play for more than five tracks.

A free service would be ashamed of releasing an app like that. And last.fm, last time I checked, was not free.

I can corroborate these reports that the latest version is substantially buggier than the old app, and that's really saying something! It has issues buffering, advancing to the next track, etc. It also doesn't even do the most basic caching on album art, so use of multi-tasking leaves the app constantly scrambling to update its artwork. This is particularly amusing if you just sit in the app, double-tap the home button (to bring up the task bar) and then tap back into the app. You can actually *watch* the album art go away, come back and then go away again. At least, you can if you don't mind your music skipping and failing all over the place.

Oh, and starting a station *still* appears to block the main UI dispatch thread. The spinner keeps running, but you can't even scroll around and the app gives every impression of having frozen (which, oftentimes it has).

But at least it looks nice!

We're keeping an eye on the crash reports submitted through iTunes and on the issues reported on this forum, and will be releasing a bug fix update to address the most common issues soon.

ant2oo4 said:
I'm also having problems using the latest app on 3G on a 3GS running iOS 4.02, it constantly freezes and when it's not frozen it's so slow it's unusable

there's going to have to be some serious improvements before I would even consider paying for a subscription.Same here. Just tried to use it for the first time walking around on my lunch break. It froze five times in less than 45 mins. The sound quality also seems worse when it is working (or am I imagining that?). As it stands I'll not be paying when it comes time.

New app crashing on my 2nd Gen 16gb iTouch. I'm still going to subscribe when my trial is up, no matter what. Very happy with Last.fm : ) I get the feeling those "people" who make iPods, don't want this app to work. I'm not happy with them at all right now.

I was very excited about the new app, but it still crashes for me on my ipod touch every 5-10 songs. Sorry guys, but there is no way I'm paying $3 when the app doesn't even work correctly.

yeah was quite excited about updating my app to the latest version today, unfortunately since the app still crashes out after a half hour or so i can't see any reason to start paying for the service, what a shame since it IS a great service when it works

otto1952 said:
evolkram said:
Using an ipod touch4 on wifi. Whenever I hit the "read more" to finish reading the artist bios and it opens the browser (safari) the music is still playing. But when I go back to the last fm app and hit the "now playing" to get to the main screen, the app crashes. Not just occasionally, but every single time. I hope there's an update to address this issue soon, because it makes the artist bio feature all but unusable. This isn't the only issue I've had, just the most persistent one.

I have exactly the same problem. There doesn't appear to be a way back into Last.fm apart from closing the browser, and that crashes Last.fm. The previous version worked fine, and I've uninstalled v3 and gone back to that.
how did you go back to the older app?
i wanted to downgrade to the older one because the new one doesn't work.

On my iPod 2nd generation I can get maybe up to three songs before it freezes. A little better on my iPhone 3GS, but not much better. Both devices are running iOS 4.2.1. I am using a wi-fi connection, yet last.fm 3.0.0 is way too SLOW, it looks like it's not caching at all, playing a radio station is torture and there are long lapses between songs since it has to load a large portion of the song before it can play it.

Please, FIX my LAST.FM app. I don't want to continue paying unless I can listen to the music in my iPod/iPhone last.fm app.

AL3x_Lfm said:
the app doesn't even open after updating to ios 4.3Try reinstalling the app from the App Store, as the app should continue to work on iOS 4.3.