Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.2) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages (stolen from a similar noatun bug report http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57420) http://www.audioscrobbler.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index There is no JuK plugin for Audioscrobbler. What is Audioscrobbler? In a nutshell, Audioscrobbler endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer. From this information you can discover other users that share some or all of your taste in music. You can also view data showing what your most-played artists are, and find out who likes a particular artist the most. Basically The Audioscrobbler Project is turning into a fantastic way of discovering new music, and discovering people who like the same music as you. When you have listened to 500 songs, Audioscrobbler will begin to match you with other users that have a similar taste in music to you. A list of "similar users" will then appear on your personal stats page. In the meantime, non-members and people who have not submitted 500 songs can check out "Scrobbler-Sets". Here you can supply the names of 2 or 3 artists, and lookup a set of similar artists. This is a useful tool for discovering new artists if you are hunting for some new music to buy/borrow/download. The Audioscrobbler protocol is simple HTTP GET/POST requests, if you want to write an Audioscrobbler plugin for a piece of software not already supported, then start a thread in the forums or post on the developer mailing list. The plugin protocol is documented in the Wiki. http://audioscrobbler.sourceforge.net/
Actually there's already been an implemention of this contributed for JuK (about a week and a half ago) so it's just a matter of me finding the time to review it and check it in.
BTW, I have a perl Audioscrobbler client here, which is working for me -- at least when the AS server is up. see: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/jmason/ it's a bit of a hack, since JuK doesn't (yet) support running commands on song-change, but I have a perl script which calls 'dcop juk Player playingString', wades through the JuK cache file, finds the path to the mp3 file that's playing, and then submits the AS data based on that ;) but it does work... most of the time. so AS support could be done reasonably cleanly by, instead of impling a full-scale plugin, providing an API to run a command and pass it the current track metadata (artist, album, title, length, and/or filename of current mp3).
This is on the 3.3 feature plan and there's been an implementation already contributed, but I won't add it to 3.3 unless they reopen for registrations before the KDE 3.3 hard freeze.
Would it be possible to post a link to the submitted patch so that we can try it out and post suggestions before it has been integrated in?
This has been open since 2004-05-03 19:38. It's now October 4th, 2005. Is this still being worked on, or not? Any official or unoffical patches? Work-arounds? Juk is the only mainstream Linux media-player that does not support this. And yes, that's a deal-breaker for some folks.... //TB
There is a Google cache of code that was supposed to do it: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:iKsueoSfioQJ:scrobbler.progoth.com/jukaspatch.txt+juk+audioscrobbler+patch Also see this message that was posted to kde-devel, the patch above was changed to work with 3.4.2. I can't test it however since it seems to be incomplete and the bug reporter never e-mailed back. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=112507506407865&w=2 Looks like this won't make it for 3.5 either. :(
fwiw, my code no longer works; AS changed their API a while back. Just noting that here, since I've been receiving requests for the hack by email.
update: JuK 3.5 will have a "song-changed" hook -- http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76462#c6 . this would allow external implementation of an AudioScrobbler client...
Juk which came with KDE4.1 beta 2 is missing last.fm support.
Yes, it definitely would be great to have audioscrobbler support, not only for last.fm but also for libre.fm IMHO, every player should have an audioscrobbler. Thanks, for this great app!
I added scrobbling support in commit r1281560 and a GUI to configure it in r1281831, but I didn't see this bug until now.