last.fm integration

[Iann Gorrill]

This should be a wishlist item. I would really like to see last.fm integration so that you can scrobble all of your tracks. I believe I used http://code.google.com/p/python-lastfm/ in a different project to accomplish this.

[Vince Spicer (hacked)]

I can take a look at what would be required for this integration

[Arutha (devplace)]

A quick solution would be to let Pithos generate a so-called scrobbler.log. This special formatted text-log of played songs can be used by scrobblers like 'qtscrobbler' to send scrobbles to last.fm. It's not an automatic system but as a temporary solution I guess a lot of people will be happy with it. (I guess it's also not that hard to implement...but I'm not familiar with the code ;-))

[EvilGnome (evilgnome)]

python-lastfm looks neat. I have a project which is roughly to Shell.FM what Pithos is to pianobar. I chose to use pyLast because it's in the Arch User Repository, while python-lastfm is not. I haven't tried out its scrobbling functionality, and I haven't looked at your code, but I typed this up and it can probably be merged in without much trouble.

Please take a look.

Thanks for Pithos!

[Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall)]

Thanks, EvilGnome!

Scrobbling support is committed to bzr trunk. Is anyone willing to test this before I spin packages for the PPA? It seems to work, but I'm not really a last.fm user (just signed up to test this).

Testing .deb package (sorry, i386 only) at http://kevinmehall.net/tmp/pithos_0.2~bzr93~localbuild-testing_i386.deb

[EvilGnome (evilgnome)]

I just checked out from bzr and scrobbling works for me, awesome! It's pretty cool using the session authentication instead of giving a username and password.

I'm not sure, but I don't think it will "love" a track if the user does that after the track ends. If that's the case, it doesn't bother me.

Make sure you get a real client id/version from last.fm before a release.

You can upload your icon in the lastfm api section so users see it when getting asked to confirm permission.
I use Paul Davey's (http://mattahan.deviantart.com/) "Porcelina the Pot" for Pithos on my system (http://yfrog.com/mxxivp).

Thanks for such quick work!

[Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall)]

Thanks!
It won't tell last.fm if you love a track after it has already been scrobbled. I agree that's not a big deal, but if there's an API for that, it might be good for the sake of completeness.

I requested a client ID and will push this to the PPA when they give me one.