TwonkyVision & last.fm

MSA · Post by **MSA** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:04 am

Ich beabsichtige, mir in KÃƒÂ¼rze ein(en) Noxon 2 Audio zuzulegen. Bisher spiele ich meine Musik direkt am PC mit Winamp ab und hatte bis vor ein paar Monaten im Wohnzimmer eine Squeezebox im Einsatz. Mit beiden war (ist) es mittels Plug-In mÃƒÂ¶glich, die gespielten Titel zu last.fm (http://www.last.fm) zu ÃƒÂ¼bermitteln. Gibt es eine solche Funktion auch mit dem TwonkyVision-Media-Server?

I will buy a Noxon 2 Audio in the next time. Actually I listen to music on my PC with Winamp and did use a Squeezebox in my living room. With these devices I could submit the music I listened to last.fm (http://www.last.fm) using a plugin. Is this also possible with the TwonkyVision-Media-Server?

twonky-christian · Post by **twonky-christian** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:13 am

sorry - no

mgillespie · Post by **mgillespie** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:38 am

I was investigating the possibility of writing a LastFM plugin, or linux shell script. I came up on several problems.

The plugin API does not provide track change callbacks, or currently playing information

I considered trying to parse the RSS feed produced by the Twonkyserver, but the RSS feed output is buggy

MSA · Post by **MSA** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:18 pm

Thanks for your answers. I would like to see last.fm supported, so will there be an implementation in upcoming versions of the MediaServer? Or will it be possible to do this with a plugin?

mgillespie · Post by **mgillespie** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:05 pm

LastFM support really is the missing part of the puzzle for me. It means I can play things on my PS3, PC(mediabrowser), and Noxon clients arond the house, and my LastFM profile would be a consoloted database of my listening habbits, and recommend new music, based on REAL data of what I like.

It's also something that NONE of the other DLNA/UPnP mediaservers offer.... (hint, hint....)

Even if twonky could output a scrobbler.log file, that can used via a cron job and a script like thos one: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=190624

For the unitiated, have a play with Last.FM, and Windows Media player... It's awesome... http://www.last.fm/

MSA · Post by **MSA** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:00 pm

The not implemented support for last.fm will probably be the reason for me to buy another network player than the noxon.

I like last.fm very much, because I like statistics.

And as you said, Mark, it's awesome.

sansp00 · Post by **sansp00** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:11 pm

Aside some homemade (haven't seen last.fm enabled/embedded device) scripts to run it (seen it for the Roku), I doubt you'll find a suitable solution right now. I don't know your programming skills, but maybe the PHP app done for the Roku units may be 'ported' (if it does not already work) for your device ...

Patrick S.

mgillespie · Post by **mgillespie** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:31 pm

sansp00 wrote:Aside some homemade (haven't seen last.fm enabled/embedded device) scripts to run it (seen it for the Roku), I doubt you'll find a suitable solution right now. I don't know your programming skills, but maybe the PHP app done for the Roku units may be 'ported' (if it does not already work) for your device ...

Patrick S.

I could/would be more that happy to write a plugin, but unfortunatly, TwonkyMedia does not give enough info to the plugins to enable this. The RSS feed could be parsed, but it's buggy.

At the end of the day, I am hoping the Twonky guys see how awesome Last.FM is, and include support in the client, or offical plugin... There is a well documented SDK at the LastFM/AudioScrobber site.

Social networking is the way forward, and LastFM is one of the best, as it's background is firmly music based.

rotsa · Post by **rotsa** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:27 am

I totally agree, a scrobbling function from twonky to last.fm would be real great. Today there are to many clients that cant do this and then to put it on the server itself would do the trick!

mgillespie · Post by **mgillespie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:00 pm

Any official work on this from Twonky's end?

I really want this, and am prepared to sit down and write a parser for the XML output from Twonkymedia.

However, I don't want to do this, if there is official support in the pipeline (duplication of effort), and using the XML PLaylist output is not really the most robust way of doing this, having the server support Last.FM natively would be a far better solution...