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Third Party => Other Utilities => Topic started by: Stephan_Spitfire on January 21, 2009, 03:35:58 PM

Title: Rockscribbler - auto-scrobbling (started with rockscrobbler)
Post by: Stephan_Spitfire on January 21, 2009, 03:35:58 PM

Until now, I always scrobble my music listened with my e280r with QTScrobbler. But it has the disadvantage, that one has to start the scrobbling manually.

Is there a way to send the scrobble-log automatically?

During research, I found this:
rockscrobbler (http://www.misticriver.net/forums/rockbox-h3xx-series/42767-rockscrobbler-experimental-audioscrobbler-support.html)
can be set up to automatically submit upon connecting your player. No extra work required in this case!

That's exactly what I desire! Too bad the link is broken. =/ Do you know another source for rockscrobbler, or a program doing the same thing?

Thanks!

Title: Re: rockscrobbler
Post by: robin0800 on January 21, 2009, 07:45:02 PM

I followed your link and according to the Patch that is closed it has been accepted i.e. included in the standard rockbox build and should be found in the 3.1 release

Title: Re: rockscrobbler
Post by: soap on January 21, 2009, 08:25:32 PM

Quote from: robin0800 on January 21, 2009, 07:45:02 PM

I followed your link and according to the Patch that is closed it has been accepted i.e. included in the standard rockbox build and should be found in the 3.1 release

Misreading it you are.  The patch to Rockbox which creates the audioscrobbler log has long been accepted.  The link to the perl script for rockbscrobbler is long gone from mysticriver it appears.

Mind you, Stephan, that rockscrobbler does not support the 1.2 protocol, so you must submit tracks in order.  This means if you listen to a few tracks on the way to work with Rockbox, listen on your PC when in the office, listen with Rockbox on the way home, those tracks you logged on the way to work will not get submitted (assuming a submission by the office PC.)
QTscrobbler does not have this issue - so you may not be aware that most other submitting programs do.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LastFMLog

Title: Re: rockscrobbler
Post by: obo on January 23, 2009, 01:51:18 PM

And QTScrobbler comes with a command line version, which could be scripted to automatically submit tracks in the same way as rockscrobbler - which as far as I remember required it to be hooked into the HAL daemon on linux, or autorun on windows.

Title: Re: rockscrobbler
Post by: Stephan_Spitfire on January 24, 2009, 02:36:07 PM

Thanks for the great hint obo! I just tried to write an autorun.inf, but I had no success. Also, I couldn't find that version with a command line.  :(

At least, I have something to hook on right now. Hopefully, the guys from the QTScrobbler-group on last.fm can help me further.

Is anybody else interested in auto-scrobbling, so shall I share my progress?