Last.Fm scrobbling support

[abhijeet]

First of all, I love this software. It has unlocked the potential of my PS3 beyond my wildest dreams.

One feature that would make me abandon every other media player I use would be Last.fm scrobbling support. I really like the sound quality that the PS3 optical output provides. With support for scrobbling, I can stop using other media players altogether.

The server also does a great job of transcoding audio and reading metadata from audio files. My thanks for that too

[soumis]

I second that

[UrbanCoyote]

It would be nice but only if you could do playlists somehow I think.

[abhijeet]

Using version 1.04, I can see all my m3u playlist files in the menus and they work fine too.

[otmanix]

full agree! scrobbling would be a great feature

[Phate666]

Hi Everyone!
The last weeks I started to code a experimental last.fm support for pms. I used this library http://code.google.com/p/lastfm-java/, which is pure java, so there were no problems including it.
This is what is working so far:

-Scrobble all audio files with pms including "Now-Playing" feature
-View last.fm weekly and overall charts through folders in medialibrary
-Basic support for playing radio (including scrobble)
-Basic configuration gui

If any of the devs wants to include this in the pms sourcecode I can send an email with the (patched) "lastfm.java.jar" and the patch to the pms source.

[shagrath]

very interesting
how did you proceed ? to plug a module with sound output isn't so easy with the massive doc and comments left in the project (mode irony on )

[Phate666]

I didnt write a new module, I just added some code in DLNAResource.java method "public InputStream getInputStream(...)" before

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externalProcess = player.launchTranscode(getSystemName(), media, params);

to "start" the scrobble process (Basicly just saves the time when play starts and the mediainfo of the track). To notice when the track has finished playing I added code to ProcessWrapperImpl.java.

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Index: net/pms/dlna/DLNAResource.java
===================================================================
--- net/pms/dlna/DLNAResource.java   (Revision 325)
+++ net/pms/dlna/DLNAResource.java   (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
import net.pms.formats.Format;

import net.pms.io.OutputParams;

import net.pms.io.ProcessWrapper;

+import net.pms.lastfm.LastFMScrobbler;

+import net.pms.lastfm.TrackInfo;

import net.pms.network.HTTPResource;

import net.pms.util.FileUtil;

import net.pms.util.Iso639;

@@ -786,6 +788,29 @@
         

         if (externalProcess == null || externalProcess.isDestroyed()) {

            PMS.minimal("Starting transcode/remux of " + getName());

+            if(PMS.getConfiguration().getLastFMscrobble()) {

+               try {

+                  if (ext.isAudio()) {

+                     TrackInfo info;

+                     try {

+                        if(LastFMScrobbler.isAudioFile(getName()))   { //Local audiofile

+                           info=TrackInfo.create(media.getFirstAudioTrack(),(int)media.getDurationInSeconds());

+                        }else {   //Last.fm radio stream

+                           String[] infos=getName().split("-");

+                           info=TrackInfo.create(infos[0],"",infos[1],0,LastFMScrobbler.getInstance().getDuration(getName()));

+                        }

+                        PMS.minimal(info.toString());

+                        if(PMS.getConfiguration().getLastFMscrobble())

+                           LastFMScrobbler.getInstance().startPlay(info);

+                     }catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {

+                        PMS.error("TAGs error", e);

+                     }

+                  }

+               }catch(Exception e) {

+                  PMS.error("ERROR", e);

+               }

+            }

+            

            externalProcess = player.launchTranscode(getSystemName(), media, params);

            try {

               Thread.sleep(params.waitbeforestart);

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Index: net/pms/io/ProcessWrapperImpl.java
===================================================================
--- net/pms/io/ProcessWrapperImpl.java   (Revision 325)
+++ net/pms/io/ProcessWrapperImpl.java   (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@


import net.pms.PMS;

import net.pms.encoders.AviDemuxerInputStream;

+import net.pms.lastfm.LastFMScrobbler;

import net.pms.util.ProcessUtil;



public class ProcessWrapperImpl extends Thread implements ProcessWrapper {

@@ -180,9 +181,14 @@


   public void stopProcess() {

      PMS.info("Stopping process: " + this);

+      

      destroyed = true;

      if (process != null) {

         ProcessUtil.destroy(process);

+         if(! "mkfifo".equals(""+this)) {   //Ugly fix

+         PMS.debug("Play STOP");

+         LastFMScrobbler.getInstance().stopPlay();

+         }

      }

      /*if (params != null && params.attachedPipeName != null) {

         File pipe = new File(params.attachedPipeName);

[shagrath]

well, with this, it seems you are playing last.fm on the computer, not the ps3 ?

[Phate666]

You can either play audio files from your pc normaly on your ps3 and what you play is sent to http://www.last.fm/, or you can play for example the "Recommends radio" from last.fm, which is a normal mp3-internet-stream.