New Last.fm protocol

[Seb Ruiz]

Perhaps we could also think about integrating the last.fm
fingerprinter if that is allowed.

On 22/11/2007, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I talked to a Max H (mxcl) of last.fm.. whose also a former amarok dev
> (developer emeritus as described by sebr), about adding a lot of the
> official client features into amarok2. This is his response (sent with
> permission).
>
> ------------
> The new scrobbling protocol is out. I already made the new scrobbler
> code in the client a drop-in-replacement with the goal of adding it to
> amarok 2 myself. Please feel free to check out the latest source code
> and copy Scrobbler-1.2.* over :)
>
> You'll need to trim TrackInfo.h and cpp a little from libUnicorn or
> libMoose I forget.
>
> Be sure to get the 1.4 beta source, if it's not available, and I'm not
> sure if it is, I can make you a tarball.
>
> The scrobbling protocol is documented at audioscrobbler.net, the radio
> architecture is not documented, since we don't really want third party
> radio apps. And I say really meaning, please go ahead, we love it, but
> it's not officially supported.
>
> The new radio architecture is tentatively named "2.0" and requires the
> client to scrobble the radio too.
>
> The new scrobbler has a number of caveats. Skips are scrobbled. Loves
> and scrobbled. Bans are scrobbled. It is a basic requirement for
> amarok to do this properly. We need the data for our stats and we need
> the stats to qualify for streaming the music in the first place. If
> amarok didn't scrobble properly we'd eventually notice and help you
> fix the code, so don't worry about it, but I have to emphasise its
> importance :)
>
> Tagging etc. is easy. You can grab the source for our web request
> architecture from libUnicorn/libMoose. The request object is
> TagRequest I believe.
>
> Max
> -------
>
> After some hunting here are the resources Max is referring to.
>
> The 1.4 Beta: http://cdn.last.fm/client/src/last.fm-1.4.0.53395.src.tar.bz2
> Where updates are posted:
> http://www.last.fm/group/Audioscrobbler+Beta/forum/30705/_/348752
>
> He doesn't mention this, but we should recognize MBIDs and scrobble
> them. See this bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122281
>
> Once this all gets implemented.... it will be really awesome :D
>
> Ramblurr
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