last.fm audioscrobbler maybe going away (rumour)
I've heard a word through the extended grapevine that last.fm may be changing how they handle scrobbling (in that they may not continue to.)
So, if you're a user of this (I am: http://www.last.fm/user/eythian ) you may want to consider extracting your data: https://secure.last.fm/settings/dataexporter and possibly adding libre.fm: https://libre.fm/user/eythian to your music playing applications (most things that support last.fm support libre.fm, at least in the open source software world.)
Note that this is conjecture and hearsay, but it's worth being aware of the possibility.
So, if you're a user of this (I am: http://www.last.fm/user/eythian ) you may want to consider extracting your data: https://secure.last.fm/settings/dataexporter and possibly adding libre.fm: https://libre.fm/user/eythian to your music playing applications (most things that support last.fm support libre.fm, at least in the open source software world.)
Note that this is conjecture and hearsay, but it's worth being aware of the possibility.
Comments
Thanks for the info, though.
Craig
If scrobbling goes away I won't be using last.fm anymore.
Craig
Craig
I mostly like using it because I've switched media libraries so many times that none of my local stats are accurate.
http://bugs.foocorp.net/projects/librefm/wiki/Clients
Craig
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Craig
Python is actually a programming language, but its syntax (the way it is written) is very user friendly and readable and high-level enough that it can be used as a scripting language. Scripting a move from last.fm to libre.fm might boil down to something like:
start
contact last.fm
send login information
read all data to file export.tmp
for each track in export.tmp do
{
contact libre.fm
send login information
set playcount
set last playdate
if track has star
{
set star
}
else end
}
end
Very oversimplified, but I hope you get the idea. The actual script would have to use the commands they allow you and figure out how to handle exceptions and differences (last.fm says you listened to V - Twin 50 times but libre.fm says the band doesn't exist).
Craig
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