David Hough | 22 Dec 16:33

last.fm Plugin

Hi,

Heres an early christmas present for everyone, I've written a fairly  
simple last.fm plugin for Zinf.

A quick summary of last.fm (used to be called audioscrobbler) for those of  
you who have never heard of it (taken from their website):

"Join the social music revolution at Last.fm. It's fun, it's free, it's  
all about the music.

You get your own online music profile that you can fill up with the music  
you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station and  
to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new  
artists and songs you might like. It's addictive, it's growing, it's free,  
it's music."
-- http://www.last.fm

Basically, the plugin submits what music you listen to, then last.fm works  
out what other music you might like, based on what other people who like  
the same music listen to.

The plugin is avaliable from my arch repository as
david <at> thepriorities.com-2005/zinf--lastfm--0.1

It uses a copy of libscrobbler (released under GNU from last.fm) to  
actually talk with the servers.

To get it to work, you need to compile with --enable-experimental  (it  
uses musicdb to get track metadata), then add lastfm.ui to SecondryUIs in  
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Gmane