submit played tracks from ipod to last.fm

[malana]

yamipod has a nifty feature, that allows you to submit the tracks you listened to on your ipod to last.fm .

it'll be nice to se this in the player of my choice.

relevant links: http://www.last.fm/forum/827/_/47398 http://www.yamipod.com/

[edcatmur]

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Patch:

http://catmur.co.uk/svn/repos/gentoo/patches/media-sound/listen/report-ipod-played.patch

How do I attach a file?

[nobody]

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great! i'll try it during the weekend. i'm really surprised, that not more code is needed...

is it safe, that tracks are only commited once?

the gpod-library seems to be quite powerful.

in the future this maybe should be an option (connect ipod -> list tracks -> 'report them to last.fm?' yes/no ). just a thought.

[edcatmur]

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is it safe, that tracks are only commited once?

last.fm is very strict on anything that looks like spamming the database. The songs need to be submitted with the correct timestamps when they were played or they will be rejected. This means the simplest thing to do is to submit the song once with the "last played" timestamp off the iPod.

in the future this maybe should be an option (connect ipod -> list tracks -> 'report them to last.fm?' yes/no ).

I don't really see why; if someone is already reporting tracks to last.fm, why would they not want their iPod tracks reported?

[nobody]

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This means the simplest thing to do is to submit the song once with the "last played" timestamp off the iPod.

So, if you listen more than once to a song before you reconnect your iPod, this information will get lost, right? (is this information even stored in the ipod, except for the playcount?)

[edcatmur]

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So, if you listen more than once to a song before you reconnect your iPod, this information will get lost, right? (is this information even stored in the ipod, except for the playcount?)

Yes. The iPod stores playcount (since last connection) and last played times of tracks, but does not store earlier play times, so we can't submit those earlier plays to last.fm.

[malana]

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it works. that's really amazing!

[malana]

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info: edcatmur modified this patch, so it works together with this one: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=819743&aid=1479567&group_id=161415