After some very nice heads up from MR E, I researched and implemented some changes in the way the player works. Our player now loads clips in a way which is more similar to how YouTube does it.

Technical: We now use swfobject and at the end of each clip the gotoNext() function is called. Also remote scripting is more robust, which should benefit Safari users.

What this means for you is that the chances of the player loading the next clip are increased and should now approach 100%.

Update tested working in Safari, Firefox and IE7. Comments welcome.

Cris just got twittered by Dan that the Last.fm guys mentioned Last.tv during their presentation at The Future of Web Apps.

The Twitters are here (1, 2, 3) and the picture containing the slide is on Flickr. The entire deck of slides about the growth of Last.fm is worth watching.