S60 Open to new features

What would be very cool is to have the Music Player update Last.fm as you play tracks on your phone. Though you'd have to watch out for data charges.

I agree, SeaWolf. Should be possible to write an Audioscrobbler plugin if you can get access to the "now playing" information. I'll check it out with our player team.

Hey guys,

I think the scrobbling feature is nice, but my guess is that it would be better suited for Ericssons as they have the music playing stuff (at least the commercials tells me so).

I go with Nokia for the mad development stuff though, like Python (done a small bluetooth communication test and it seems nice, it just hangs a bit much;)

My goal is to listen to Last.FM radio on my cellphone though, since it's a killer feature which I use constantly.

With the Internet Radio Player you guys have released that will be possible Real Soon Now.
This little project has been going on for quite some time but this is the only time I've seen the light in the end of the tunnel.

As for the scrobbling thing you were discussing, it possible but might require a new front-end (if you can't get the 'now playing' info from the player). Worst case scenario you'll have to re-implement it with and trigger something that saves that info. This could be sooo neat with Flash Lite 2.0. Don't get me started :P

Oren: feel free to contact me with python questions or random thoughts on mad projects

Erik

Hmm, better drop the email address too :)

petterson dot erik _[AT]_ gmail.com

Thanks for the comments, Erik. Please keep us posted on your progress with the Last.fm project. I also think it would be interesting to have a scrobbler for Shoutcast (or even Visual Radio!), that uploads the song info from the metadata.

The thing with Radio is that you arn't allowed to upload metadata from that, since it's not really 'your choice' of music. It's a LastFM guideline and it kinda makes sense to me. Radio content is never 100% matching but your playlist is.

I will keep you posted on the LastFM progress!

Oren, I've been thinking along similar lines to SeaWolf, though I was thinking along the lines of an application that would record what you are listening to locally, to be uploaded in one go when convenient - a bit like YamiPod, which allows you to post your recently played tracks from your iPod to Last.fm. Except that in this case everything would be done from the phone. However, though I can find loads of information about the web services to get data from Last.fm, I can't find anything about submitting data. Could you possibly point me in the right direction?

Audioscrobbler documents the upload protocol in its Wiki: http://www.audioscrobbler.net/wiki/Protocol1.1
This requires a way to extract "now playing" data from the Music Player. We're working on that.

I have Nokia N70 smartphone. Do you know any Symbian S60 MP3-player that supports scrobbling with Audioscrobbler/last.fm plugin?

Any news from the player team on this?
I'm really looking forward to having the tracks listened to on my mobile AudioScrobbled :-)

No need to reinvent the wheel. You can get some Python code to submit song track info to last.fm from my iPod scrobbler plugin http://www.hoc.net/mike/source/iPodScrobbler

Supports Unicode too.
:-)

Yes!

The "now playing" info would be such a nice thing to have access to.

As a person who listens music with a S60 device 90% of the time I have come to notice that this would really be a nice feature.

I am at the moment looking into doing something like this on the native side, only thing missing is the "now playing" info which can only be generated by doing the player myself (which I am not going to do :).

I have developed a prototype last.fm radio client in pyS60. It requires an external player and as such LCGJukebox seems to fit the bill. It is downloadable at http://m3solutions.co.uk/Documents/lastfm.py_v1.02.rar
I would be very interested in any feedback.

Thanks Richard, loved it :)

The Internet connection seems quite unstable on my N76, it keeps popping up the select access point dialog. Might be something with pyS60..

This is sweet for parties etc. to control what's playing.

hiiiiiii
if you have visual radio(or any fm radio for nokia s60 series)please send me this softwere.

Hi,

where to get a s60 3rd edition client for last.fm ??
i need this client ;)

the link above doesn't work anymore: lastfm.py_v1.02.rar

that link doesn't work for me either.

personally, I like the idea of being able to batch-upload a tracklist of all recently played tracks on my N95 to my Last.fm account. i use my N95 for listening to music on the go and in the car, and it'd help a lot when i log into Last.fm to update my preferences/playlists in making useful suggestions to me...

Hi

Any upadte on the last.fm client for S60?

Thanks!

Toni

still no news about last.fm s60 client?

boo!

Hi

There is a working Python project for a last.fm client for S60: http://code.google.com/p/aspyplayer/

Toni

I've written an s60 last.fm scrobbler. If anyone is interested in trying it then please go here.

http://code.google.com/p/mobbler

Thanks.

Michael