Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

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Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

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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.

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Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

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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.
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What kind of rules that would get it a ban? Would this be something better suited to the actual broadcasting software?

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Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

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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.
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Re: Live Scrobbling for Last.FM

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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"?

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