Yep, you need to be using the web-service methods to actually mark tracks as loved or banned.
Cheers, Mike. On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 12:23 -0700, Darryl G. Wright wrote: > Thanks, Mike. > > I noticed the existence of this API now too: > > http://www.last.fm/api/show/track.love > > Do I take that to mean that the 'ratings' argument I am using to pass > back 'the love' is now deprecated? That would explain why I am not > seeing any results. > > Cheers, > Darryl > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Mike Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Darryl, > > > > You can use the user.getLovedTracks method to find out all the tracks a > > user has loved. The documentation for this method can be seen here: > > http://www.last.fm/api/show/user.getLovedTracks > > > > Example usage for Libre.fm would be: > > http://alpha.libre.fm/2.0/?method=user.getLovedTracks&user=elleo > > > > There isn't a mechanism for querying individual tracks in the last.fm > > api, so presumably you'll want to just grab the whole set of loved > > tracks at start up and then check against it for each song. > > > > Cheers, > > Mike. > > > > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:05 -0700, Darryl G. Wright wrote: > >> Hey All, > >> > >> I am curious about how the 'love' option works in the client API. I > >> just added the 'ratings' field to my scrobbler client which now > >> carries "L" for live if the user clicks on the option on the client. > >> Given that there's no real feedback on the song itself from the server > >> though, I am wondering if it's typical for the client to store this > >> information locally? Or is there some method I should be querying to > >> find out as a track starts playing whether or not the user rated it? > >> > >> The reason I ask is because when I've seen this implemented on most > >> other clients the 'Love' icon usually shows up when a track that you > >> previously loved comes on. > >> > >> My other question is - on Libre.fm specifically, is there a way you > >> can see which tracks were loved or is that aspect of the API > >> unsupported? Right now my client is either not working properly or > >> nothing is showing up in my listening history. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Darryl > >> > > > >
