radioscrobbler Files

Readme for radioscrobbler 0.2b

radioscrobbler: A rhythmbox plugin written in python to scrobble songs from internet radios to last fm

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Requirements:

Rhythmbox <= 0.13.3
Python >= 2.6.6
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To install:

Extract the tar.gz file and paste the folder in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/ or the plugin folder for your installation
Open rhythmbox goto Edit->Plugins and enable radioscrobbler by checking the box against radioscrobbler
Listen to a song from any radio which gives the tag info (For eg: http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/mp3/live.pls?service=vcbb)
After you grant permission in the web browser click OK
Enjoy
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What it does:

Scrobbles tracks from internet radios in rhythmbox to last.fm

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What it doesn't:

Scrobble songs that are not enabled by last fm (Ads, mistagged tracks etc).
Scrobble tracks from radios which doesn't give info about current playing track.
Scrobble songs that has never been listened by anyone on last fm before.

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Project homepage:

http://radioscrobbler.sourceforge.net/

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Author: 	harris4got
Thanks to: 	Vincent Untz (Author of im-status plugin for code that would guide me)
		Frederik Lundh (For html unescape function)
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What's New:

* Support for live365 stations (non-VIP):
	- Get the link to your station (For eg: You want to listen to station named 'Dimensions in Jazz'
					google 'live365 dimension in jazz'
					you'll right click and get the link which is:
					http://www.live365.com/stations/ellacurly)
	- Add it as a new station in rhythmbox (or simply entering 'live365/ellacurly' will do, it is better by the way)
	- Try playing it.
	- You'll get an error and the name of the station changes.
	- If the name changed try playing it again and it will work.
	- Else your station maybe VIP only

* Support for some stations not providing info along with stream
	This was done just as an example. It fetches the now playing data from a webpage and scrobbles it.
	Some examples are WUFT, yrock, XPN etc

* Detect Wrong character Encodings and rectify it.
	Currently only wrongly encoded cyrilic (eg. Aplus stations)

* Realtime Scrobbling

* Nowplaying update

* There are much more cooler customizable features which might need a li'l too much explanation which will be done .. later.

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Troubleshooting:

Radioscrobbler works with rhtyhmbox <= 0.13.3
Make sure you have python > 2.6 installed.
Radioscrobbler requires python modules simplejson and chardet which is not installed by default on older versions of python. You can install it on ubuntu with apt-get install python-simplejson python-chardet
For more details about any trouble, start rhythmbox from commandline like this:
rhythmbox -D 'radioscrobbler' 
That will give you a clue about what's wrong.
Tested on Fedora and Ubuntu
Feedback about any kind of error really appreciated.

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(Whats it about the alpha and betas?: Uh I don't know)

Just wanted to say something?: Drop me a shout at my lastfm page. last.fm/user/harris4got

Anything serious or a cool logo idea?: at harris4got@users.sourceforge.net