last.fm integration

[simonv3]

(oops, sorry for the empty ticket creation!)

I was wondering whether last.fm integration had been considered?

A user could supply the last.fm username and password and then muszeek would submit the music played to their last.fm account.

[martpie]

Hello, I've never used this service could you explain me what last.fm does exactly ?

[simonv3]

Oh, sorry!

So, this is interesting - Last.fm is technically a radio music player (a bit like Pandora), but as far as I'm aware most people I know who use it use it as a what-they've-listened-to tracker. For example, I can look at what artists I listened to the most in 2007. It's a very inactive process - Spotify lets you add your last.fm account and it just automatically tells last.fm what you've been listening to. As a user you don't have to do anything else.

It would be a shame (for me) to lose that tracked information with switching back to a more offline, I-own-the-music, open-source service.

I'm personally willing to look into getting this implemented for Museeks, but just wanted to see if it was a starter or not.

[martpie]

Thanks for the explanation, looks like an interesting feature indeed.

Low priority for the moment, but it may go up in the backlog if other people ask for it :) Thanks for the suggestion.

[YurySolovyov]

I will actually be against this, not because it is not useful, but because it adds feature creep.
For me, everything that is not playback-related, is unnecessary.

[simonv3]

@YurySolovyov - that's a fair concern!

It makes me wonder - have you all considered a light-weight plug in system? That way you can keep Museeks trim, but allow people to modify it with plug-ins? That might also be feature creep.

[YurySolovyov]

Plugin systems are usually very hard to get right.

I thought about adding a statement that we are not responsible for any issues caused by plugins, but this makes me think that it is better not to have a plugin system than having one we don't care about.

Another point is that we did not released 1.0 version yet, so things would change a lot and I'm not sure plugin system is on the roadmap.

[martpie]

Adding the discussion label.

[vvesperr]

Museeks has a beautiful UI. Sad to see no LastFM integration yet. It's a bit of a dealbreaker for me :( (and some others who've been using the service for a long time too, I imagine.)

[martpie]

@vvesperr I'm not decided yet, but thanks for your feedback, be sure it's taken in consideration :)

[miradozk]

@KeitIG Please add track scrobbling to Last.FM. It sends current track info to the Last.FM server.

[balzabalza]

I do agree with this possible feature. With the latest releases, Museeks has made very good progresses, and I use this feature a lot, to keep track of what I'm listening to via PC/Smartphone/Tablet, no matter the program that is responsible for playing music (iTunes/Museeks/Shuttle+/Spotify...).

Features like this could be a deal breaker for people like me, although of course it is not of the highest priority.

[martpie]

Well, it seems to gain traction :) I may re-prioritize this then

[felixding]

Can you please add last.fm integration to Museeks? This really is a deal breaker for a long-time last.fm user like me.

[martpie]

I don't know Last.fm much, do we agree that you all ask for Last.fm's scrobbling integration only? (and not the all the other fancy stuff like playlists etc...?)

refs:

• https://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling

[simonv3]

@martpie that's right, just the scrobbling. I dunno, it's a self-tracking thing I guess.

[martpie]

Ok, with the latest refactoring on the main process, it should not be too hard to implement in a nice and clean way. This received enough +1 so I am willing to implement it :)

Let's code!

[balzabalza]

Thank you :)

[felixding]

Yes. Just the scrobbling.

Thank you. Looking forward to the new version.

Fingers crossed.

[miradozk]

thank you

[ldexterldesign]

👋 #518

[make-42]

still no support :(

[martpie]

I gave it a try last year really briefly (I worked a couple of hours on it).

The main problem is their authentication system is extremely annoying to deal with. You have to redirect to last.fm, then it will redirect to your app (if it's even possible), etc.

If it had a token system like GitHub, things would be much easier.

I don't have the use of last.fm, but if anyone knows an open-source player that does this, with some code I could look at, I could give it another try.

[ldexterldesign]

Hi @xE0F9,

Did you try ListenBrainz (LB)?

@martpie I bet LB is easier to integrate

Sincerely

[martpie]

ListenBrainz (after a really brief look), looks easier to implement (again, just for basic scrobbling)

[ldexterldesign]

@martpie have had to go back to iTunes until #519 and #528 get resolved but if/when they happen I'll commit to doing #518 - deal?

Sincerely

[make-42]

If ListenBrainz gets implemented then I would use that.

[undergroundwires]

I don't know Last.fm much, do we agree that you all ask for Last.fm's scrobbling integration only? (and not the all the other fancy stuff like playlists etc...?)

And also Love button would great. Red when a song is loved and empty (clickable) when it's not.