Re: [Banshee-List] last.fm and ipod scrobbling

[Peter de Kraker <banshee umito nl>]

Hi,

If you look at the buglisting you'll find a featurerequest for that: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536389

I am planning to get it working the coming months, but being a newbie to 
this language, I need a lot of C# learning to do first, so it will take 
some time.

It is interesting to see that Amarok, according to you, is using fake 
timestamps. The ipodscrobbling function of the opensource LastFM client 
is able to read the real timestamps from the ipod internal database as 
far as I saw when I studied their code.

Also the "getting date of last song scrobbled to last.fm" part is not 
necessary, since the lastfm protocol has a (not publicly documented but 
existing) portable device switch that allows scrobbling tracks before 
the last scrobbled song timestamp without triggering spam protections.

So, no, I am not planning to go the Amarok way, but it will definitely 
be _useful_scrobbling.

Anyway, could you add your comment to the mentioned bug? Would be very 
helpful. :)

Greetings,

Peter de Kraker


Martin Raißle schreef:
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> Hi there,
>
> now that Banshee has reached 1.0, does it support _useful_ scrobbling of
> tracks played on my ipod? Useful means the way Amarok does it:
>
> * timestamps on the ipod are ignored, since it's only the last play
> * playcount is read
> * get date of the last song scrobbled to last.fm (not only via amarok /
> banshee but in general)
> * fake timestamps of songs played on the ipod and submit as many songs
> as possible, meaning as many as fit between the last scrobbling and now
> * if a song was played more than once, it will be submitted more than 
> once
>
> I use my ipod to listen to music if I'm not at home, but I'm using my PC
> too. I also use the last.fm flashplayer to discover new music.
>
> Amarok realizes ipod scrobbling pretty good, but it's a qt app and
> doesn't look fine.
>
> But anyway .. cool app you made :)
>
> Greets Martin
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