Just for information, section 4.4 in LastFM Terms of reference says:
You will not make more than 5 requests per originating IP address per
second, averaged over a 5 minute period, without prior written consent
Heh... I needed to google this document, as the one I've found was in
German and didn't have anything like that in it. I figured out I content
myself with the first document which smelled legal, but it was end user
terms of use...
However, maybe it's unnecessary to worry about it until they complain. I
know I tried to handle it in Custom Scan plugin which have a LastFM
scanning module that can retrieve artist images, but I didn't really
find a good way to solve it so if you can avoid it it's probably a good
idea. I guess it's scanning that should be most concern but it's
probably mainly an issue for people with a bit larger libraries as you
should be fine if you do less than 1500 requests/5 minutes.
very large library and very fast processing: this includes DB
reads/writes, writing to the filesystem, looking things up online,
downloading an image and re-scaling it all on your LMS system. I've yet to
see one item processed in < 200ms (for this use).
--
Michael
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