Friday, August 10th, 2007...12:10 pm

Thinking about writing a Rhapsody Scrobbler

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I want to write a Rhap­sody scrob­bler. It’s already been done as a desk­top appli­ca­tion, but I don’t want to boot up another appli­ca­tion while I’m play­ing music. I want to do it as a hosted Web service.

Does any­body want to look into this? I’m think­ing the design would be sim­ple: reg­u­larly con­sume the Rhap­sody user’s Tracks RSS feed and plug it into Audio­Scrob­bler via its API.

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  • http://apusnotes.nfshost.com/ Hsiu-Fan Wang

    You know, I always thought it’d be cool but never thought of a way to do it.

    The main issue I see with your approach is you have to fake a log-in and that seems “evil”… Good think­ing though, I’ll play around with some http sniff­ing and see if its easy… :)

  • http://www.g9labs.com andrewhao

    I was think­ing of leav­ing that part up to the user, hav­ing them pub­li­cize the RSS feed and copy/pasting it into the app. I’d feel less slimy doing that than fak­ing the login.. :)

  • Phaery

    Cool idea!! The app you are refer­ring to (from D. Atlanski) is bulky and unsta­ble. I was using Yahoo Ser­vice before and there was an awe­some plu­gin that worked in con­junc­ture with last.fm app. How­ever since Yahoo and Rhap­sody merged, I am strug­gling to find a decent scrob­bler. I can test yours out when you will have it ready :D

  • http://www.g9labs.com andrewhao

    I for­got to update this, but we were the ones that wrote Scrhap­ler (http://scrobbler.porkbuns.net)! Have you given it a shot? Just curi­ous what your expe­ri­ence was with it.

  • http://twitter.com/3rdparty Josh

    Hey — were you involved with rhapsody-scrobbler.appspot.com? If so, curi­ous about how its scrob­bling tracks off­set 8 hours in the past.

    Also, would be amaz­ing if it authen­ti­cated to last.fm using OAuth…

    I guess I could clone the project and try to build it myself, but I’m not much (any) of a coder.

    Thanks

  • http://www.g9labs.com andrewhao

    Hey Josh,

    I’ve passed your sug­ges­tion off to Hsiu-Fan, who is the cre­ator of the App Engine app. You could reach him via the Project Page (http://code.google.com/p/rhapsody-scrobbler/) and I have it on good word from him that he’s work­ing on the time­zone issue :)