Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [OT] Last.fm API (was 0.12.1 prerelease)

[Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik bickeringleague net>]

There is (or will be) also libre.fm[1]

It includes tools to import data from last.fm.

Still alpha, though.

[1] http://www.libre.fm/

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:07 +0200, giopas wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>
> wrote:
>         On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:53:32PM +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
>         > What about new last.fm policy for radio? It seems there is a
>         new API too..
>         
>         
>         I just had a quick look at the new API documentation
>         (http://www.last.fm/api/radio) and it appears that while the
>         overall
>         scheme is the same, the API methods have all changed and
>         there's a new
>         (overly complicated) authentication scheme.  The current code
>         still
>         seems to work for now, though I assume it will suddenly stop
>         one day
>         soon.
>         
>         I don't think I will implement the new API myself.  I can no
>         longer use
>         the service (and I never used it much anyway), and there's no
>         real technical
>         interest for me any more.
>         
>         It shouldn't be too hard for someone interested to pick this
>         up.  I
>         expect most of the work would be in implementing the
>         authentication
>         scheme.  Once that's done, the changes to the web service
>         requests look
>         to be straightforward.
> 
> Thank you Jonathan for your valuable work!
> 
> Do you think that changes in Last.fm API will include not only radio
> streaming but also data song collection (sending metadata on Last.fm
> server)?
> 
> Loose all such information would be really a pity to me (I've sent
> more than 28.000 songs to Last.fm through Rb, since 2006...)!
> Unfortunally I'm not good at all with coding issues, and I can also
> encourage who can to still support this feature.
> 
> enjoy, ;)
> giopas
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