New tool for Scrobbling (etc) Serato ScratchLive...
New tool for Scrobbling (etc) Serato ScratchLive... Posted on: 06.07.2010 by Tobie Lolos Heya!I've been working on a tool for live scrobbling, live now-playing and other stuff of that nature from Serato. It's incomplete, right now it just gives you console logs and nice Growl popups when stuff happens - but the hard bit's done. Writing the actual Scrobbling part - or a Twitter plugin - or something that pulls info about the current now-playing track from Last.fm API and shows it on a projector, etc - or all of the above, at once - would be pretty easy. Let me know what you believe. Interested in alpha testers. * Mac only right now, but making it work on Windows should be quite easy as I wrote the whole thing in OOPHP. * disclosure: I work for Last.fm (but this is a personal project) | |
| Tobie Lolos 12.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by thewrz
The actual decision to scrobble follows the same logic as whether or not something is 'played' in the History panel, i.e. track A is only 'played' if you change track B. The Now Playing logic is a bit more fiddly but it works ok for me. It's based on when I believe the previous track has ended (which will be earlier than it has really ended), or whichever track is the only track playing. |
| Belen Wermes 06.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by ben-xo
that's what she said. |
| Tobie Lolos 06.07.2010 | Heya! I've been working on a tool for live scrobbling, live now-playing and other stuff of that nature from Serato. It's incomplete, right now it just gives you console logs and nice Growl popups when stuff happens - but the hard bit's done. Writing the actual Scrobbling part - or a Twitter plugin - or something that pulls info about the current now-playing track from Last.fm API and shows it on a projector, etc - or all of the above, at once - would be pretty easy. Let me know what you believe. Interested in alpha testers. * Mac only right now, but making it work on Windows should be quite easy as I wrote the whole thing in OOPHP. * disclosure: I work for Last.fm (but this is a personal project) |
| Ellen Hescht 06.12.2013 | Ben! This looks so great but I'm a bit lost at the moment. Will this work for DJ or DJ Intro? |
| Tobie Lolos 12.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by thewrz
The actual decision to scrobble follows the same logic as whether or not something is 'played' in the History panel, i.e. track A is only 'played' if you change track B. The Now Playing logic is a bit more fiddly but it works ok for me. It's based on when I believe the previous track has ended (which will be earlier than it has really ended), or whichever track is the only track playing. |
| Devora Bajic 10.12.2010 | Worked great last evening
. Had a lot of fun. Thanks again for making this little tool. |
| Belen Wermes 06.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by ben-xo
that's what she said. |
| Devora Bajic 06.12.2010 | Nevermind! I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. It's working great so far... I can see that it's showing my currently playing track. If I stop the decks that disappears. I'll keep experimenting. This is cool |
| Devora Bajic 05.12.2010 | Hmm... the <username> text file doesn't seem to be generating to allow authorization. :-/ Nothing is scrobbling thusfar... also the --lastfm syntax wasn't really well explained. Also, where is this text file generated? Are you to input your Last.fm password after the colon? Code:
Last.fm options: -L or --lastfm <username>: Scrobble / send 'Now Playing' to Last.fm for user <username>. The first time you specify this, it will ask you to authorize the app to your Last.fm account. The authorization information is stored in a file called <username>-lastfm.txt |
| Devora Bajic 05.12.2010 | Gonna try it toevening
Using a Mac laptop... http://last.fm/user/thewrz |
| Tobie Lolos 20.09.2010 | Wondering if anyone's been using it or trying it out? Works really reliably for me, but then I'm the guy who made it... |
| Jacqulyn Shoemo 26.07.2010 | That's pretty cool man! |
| Tobie Lolos 23.07.2010 | Updated the tool - it will now post to Twitter too, if you want! |
| Tobie Lolos 23.07.2010 | http://github.com/ben-xo/sslscrobbler - it actually does scrobble now! |
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