As I’ve been telling myself I would for a while, I set up a last.fm account and attached most of my media playing devices to it:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/PAPPPmAc<\/a><\/p>\n The update behavior is …quirky… but I’m not sure if that is a symptom of my usage or the service. I had a bunch of tracks go from “now playing” to “yesterday evening” (apparently because it is confused about time zones), and a few tracks have been randomly excluded\/doubled up\/etc. (I think it excludes tracks it doesn’t know?), but I’m reasonably willing to call it working server-side. Client side, maemoscrobbler on the n810 is being twitchy, probably because I’ve replaced a bunch of OS pieces it interacts with with patched versions, but basically seems to work. The last.fm plugin in Rhythmbox on my media machine is much better behaved. I wonder if the squirrelyness is just because I had different clients from the same IP in rapid succession. <\/p>\n There are a couple behaviors that seem natural to me and don’t seem to be integrated: I’d really like to be able to export my whole music library into their connection service, and let it feed back selections to the media player via some protocol; It’s the first thing I’ve come across that even competes with my old Rio Karma’s “Rio DJ” features, and I want to be able to do the unattended “play similar music” stunt with my own music library. <\/p>\n Now to see how long until I leave an album muted on repeat for an entire weekend and poison the account’s history\/suggestion engine. <\/p>\n Is anyone else scrobbling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I’ve been telling myself I would for a while, I set up a last.fm account and attached most of my media playing devices to it: http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/PAPPPmAc The update behavior is …quirky… but I’m not sure if that is a … Continue reading