neilmercer sa:
Can anyone explain why I can no longer listen to Last.fm? I have been trying to listen to my play list but each time a window pops up and says: "RtApiDs Unable to start buffer (Primary Sound Driver): No Driver.."
I'd appreciate any help with this!
Thanks.

Is it your personal radio that you can't listen to (just wonder since you said playlist, but I can't see a playlist on your profile....). Where do you get the error message, in the Flash-player or in the client?

Exact same issue here. Windows Vista Business 32-bit, with Service Pack 1. Last.fm player 1.5.1.29527 (and now 1.5.1.30182 (see below). Doesn't matter what I try to play, as soon as it finishes buffering I get this error, and no playback. Oddly enough, even though the Last.fm web site (and changelog) claim that the latest version is now 1.5.2, running Check for Updates in my v1.5.1.29527 player came back with "No updates available". So I manually downloaded the latest player, and the downloaded file is named Last.fm-1.5.1.30182.exe. Hrmmm. Well, whatever - I installed this newer version over my old one (no errors/warnings), started the player up again, and still got the same error as soon as I tried listening to anything. Help >> About does now show 1.5.1.30182, though.

Player used to work fine on this system - not sure exactly when/why it stopped. I'm pretty sure I used the player w/o errors since applying SP1 for Windows Vista... Please let me know if there's a log file I can upload, or anything else I can do to help troubleshoot the issue.

Thanks,
-roach

MerQueen said:
i have the exact same problem but it appears the admin arent around helping us.. as soon as last fm chooses a song, that messege comes up, my system is windows vista home premium
Does changing "Soundcard" and "System" under Tools -> Options have any effect?

Okay, upon further search, I found this:

Stefletch said:
I came across this error on my laptop (Vista Business), but it was resolved by...

Click on Tools menu, then Options.
Click on the Radio tab on the left and then under Audio options change the soundcard from "Primary Sound Driver" to your specific sound card.

Hope this helps,

Stephen




Still doesn't explain why this is happening, but it fixed my problem.

For me: Last.FM starts up on start up in my system.
* SoundCard = Primary Sound Driver + Sigmatel
* System = DirectDrive
Then my bluetooth drivers load up and my headset connects.
Click play and I get the error.
Stop Last.FM
Start Last.FM
* SoundCard = Primary Sound Driver + Sigmatel + Bluetooth Wave
* System = DirectDrive
Click play and it plays fine.

It would seem that when Last.FM starts it takes a snapshot of the drivers, and then when it tries to start it probably has an invalid reference pointer against the Primary. The reset of Last.FM app, allows it to rebuild its lists again.
IMHO - The solution is probably that Last.FM rebuilds its drivers when you click PLAY !!

To workaround -
Copy the text below into a VBS script. (modify to your own settings)
Save the VBS script to your Startup folder.
Delete the original Last.FM shortcut from the startup folder.

Hope this helps: P

= vvvv =

On Error Resume Next

LastFMPath = "C:\Program Files\Last.fm\LastFM.exe"
DriverName = "Bluetooth Audio Device"
MaxDelay = 120 ' set to 0 for unlimited !!

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

FoundDriver = false
While(FoundDriver = false)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SoundDevice")
For Each objItem in colItems
if(objItem.ProductName = DriverName) then FoundDriver = true
Next
WScript.Sleep(1000)
MaxDelay = MaxDelay - 1
if(MaxDelay=0) then FoundDriver = true ' Not really found - but timed out.
Wend

set WS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WS.Exec LastFMPath

= ^^^^ =

p.s. Not sure if this works on all flavours of windows. Sorry if it doesn't