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) > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
