New Last.fm protocol

[Casey Link]

And the response to that was (from another dev named HairMetalAddict):

Ramblurr - Can't give an official staff response, but the lastfmfpclient is GPL

So we'll be doing the grunt work (as expected), but yea we should look into it.

On Nov 21, 2007 8:46 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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