Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Music streams and audioscrobbler

[Michael Knepher <mknepher bluethingy com>]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 12:07 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:37:27PM -0800, Michael Knepher wrote:
> > I recently installed 0.9.2 and decided to sign up at last.fm and try out
> > the audioscrobbler plugin. It seems to be a nice service, but it doesn't
> > suit my current listening habits particularly well. I have no idea if my
> > use case can be accommodated, but here goes:
> > 
> > I mainly use rhythmbox at work. I've copied some of my music files onto
> > my work PC, but I really don't have a lot of space, so I run an mp3
> > stream of my music from home and listen to that quite a bit. As a
> > result, my last.fm profile pretty much has just a small portion of the
> > songs/artists that I listen to. 
> > 
> > Is it possible to feed the song and artist info that rhythmbox pulls
> > from the stream into the audioscrobbler plugin? I know that I wouldn't
> > necessarily want every 'net radio station I listen to being fed through
> > the plugin, but being able to check a box in the properties for my home
> > stream would be handy, and make the whole last.fm thing more useful for
> > me.
> 
> The problem here is that shoutcast metadata doesn't give you separate
> album, artist, and title fields, it's just one (not very long) string.
> Streams are not consistent in how they format this string, either.
> It'd be difficult to reliably parse the string and get usable data to
> submit.  I can't check at the moment (last.fm is down), but I think
> there are guidelines about doing this in the audioscrobbler protocol
> documentation.  Mostly "don't".

Good points. I hadn't really considered how the stream was passing along
the track info.
> 
> I think it would actually be a better idea to do audioscrobbler
> submission on the server side in this case.

So I just googled "slimserver and audioscrobbler" and found the
slimscrobbler plugin. Thanks. ;o)



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