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Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:23 pm
by MattEnloe
Currently the bot only scrobbles at the end of a song - an option to have "live" scrobbling for compatibility with people's IRC commands and other things would be cool.

Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:39 pm
by Indy
It could probably take commands and reply via shouts, but as for actual scrobbling they have a lot of rules you have to follow or they'll ban the bot from the API.

Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:56 pm
by MattEnloe
What kind of rules that would get it a ban? Would this be something better suited to the actual broadcasting software?

Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:30 am
by Indy
For actual scrobbling, it has to be actual songs over 30 seconds in length. And you have to have played at least 2/3rds of it before doing the scrobble, etc. There is probably a list of the rules on the API section of their site.

For the shoutboxes interactivity should be fine though.

Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:10 pm
by MattEnloe
Is there a way to detect that then so it can use the now playing feature rather than "is not listening to anything right now"?