{"id":355,"date":"2004-12-07T23:25:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T23:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2004-12-07T23:25:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T23:25:52","slug":"lastfm_and_next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/12\/07\/lastfm_and_next\/","title":{"rendered":"last.fm and Next Generation Media players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to use last.fm and audioscrobbler in September but failed.<br \/>\nAfter reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capzilla.net\/blog\/5833\/\">Rob&#8217;s entry about last.fm<\/a> I tried again to get it working and this time I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audioscrobbler.com\/user\/arved\">succeeded<\/a>. <strike>Now I just need to find a way to integrate the audioscrobbler RDF feed into my page. (Unfortunately they are using the description tag instead of the title tag, so py-rssfetch does not produce good looking output).<\/strike>. When it works, the <a href=\"http:\/\/arved.narf.at\/cgi-bin\/nowplaying.py\">&#8220;Now playing!&#8221;<\/a> has the latest songs from my playlist. (The CGI is a bit slow, because it is fetching the RSS feeds live, which takes quite a while over my slow ADSL line)<br \/>\nI added the XMMS\/BMP scrobbler plugin yesterday to the FreeBSD ports, it still crashes sometimes. The other audioscrobbler-aware Mediaplayer is amarok from CVS and rumours are GNOME rhythmbox also has a plugin, but i never tried that one.<br \/>\nLast.fm works best with good ID3 tags, but unfortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muiscbrainz.org\/\">libmusicbrainz<\/a>, which automagically fixes your tags, is broken on FreeBSD 5.x, so I have to handedit my ID3 tags.<br \/>\nNext to scrobbler and musicbrainz i discovered another killer feature in amarok. It is able to grab the Cover Images from amazon and Lyrics from a Lyrics website. So Digital Music finally catches up with CD-booklets from the 1990s.<br \/>\nBTW, To become my favorite mediaplayer, amarok just needs to become much more stable (it crashes so horribly that gdb gives up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports\/73512\">too<\/a>) and it needs a better UI, especially the KDE sidebar tab widget ist just intuitive.<br \/>\nI have isolated one <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.kde.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=94662\"> in the Tag Editor<\/a>, hopefully Scott Wheeler will find the real fix soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to use last.fm and audioscrobbler in September but failed. After reading Rob&#8217;s entry about last.fm I tried again to get it working and this time I succeeded. Now I just need to find a way to integrate the audioscrobbler RDF feed into my page. (Unfortunately they are using the description tag instead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/12\/07\/lastfm_and_next\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;last.fm and Next Generation Media players&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}