AudioScrobbler or how to laugh at peoples' playlists

[Didou]

AudioScrobbler is a small plug-in for most popular media players (yes Nic, even WMP) which holds stats of the songs that you play. It can then suggest other similar artists to look for or eventually other AudioScrobbler users that have the same musical tastes as you (in case you want to have a chit-chat).

We started using it in the IRC channel ( irc.starchat.net - #3Dspotlight ) to have a musical snapshots of the users in there & decided we could bring it over to the forums.

AudioScrobbler TechSpot group

In order to join the group, you have to ask & a current member will add you. To make things easier, give us your user name from the forums.

Here's my playlist, in case you're wondering what's playing on Winamp right now (CLICK CLICK).

 

[MYOB]

Who the hell is Don Ho? I consider myself fairly well musically 'educated' (bad term, really), but I've never heard of him...

No BeOS plugins, and the media player I use has no plugin API anyway. Just take my word for it - lots and lots of New Order, Orbital, Bomfunk MC's, Pet Shop Boys, and other electronic acts

 

[Justin]

wow, a XMMS plugin!

i joined for that reason alone

 

[young&wild]

Hehe...anyway welcome aboard! :wave:

 

[Masque]

Who the hell is Don Ho? I consider myself fairly well musically 'educated' (bad term, really), but I've never heard of him...

:haha: Don Ho is/(was?) a Hawaiian singer who had one major hit (many, many years ago) by the name of "Tiny Bubbles". I'm not surprised you've never heard of him. If you're not from the states and aren't older than dirt (like many of us), you probably wouldn't.

 

[me(who else?)]

Are there any for players like Xine and mplayer?

 

[young&wild]

Nope, as far i know, only xmms is supported in linux.

 

[Didou]

Mplayer & Xine are regarded as video players, even though they play mp3 files & as such there are no plug-ins available for them.

 

[MYOB]

I wonder do either of the major BeOS players have enough access to playlist data through the plugin API's...

SoundPlay probably does, as it does have a complete third party web control frontend. Might look into a port of this..

 

[me(who else?)]

I can't figure out how to install for XMMS on Linux. It returns this:

bash-2.05b# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... g77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag  works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for long... yes
checking size of long... 4
checking if XMMS plugin is to be built... yes
checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... yes
checking for xmms-config... no
checking for XMMS - version >= 1.2.4... no
*** The xmms-config script installed by XMMS could not be found.
*** If XMMS was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the XMMS_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to xmms-config.
configure: WARNING: *** XMMS >= 1.2.4 not installed - please install first ***
checking if BMP plugin is to be built... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0... Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0' but version of GLib is 2.2.1
configure: WARNING: Cannot find glib2/gtk2
checking for bmp >= 0.9.7rc2... Package bmp was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `bmp.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'bmp' found
configure: WARNING: Cannot find beep-media-player
configure: error: No media player specified, or none found. Cannot build.

Unfortunately, I have had too many problems installing gtk and glib. I can never get rid of all the scraps of the old install. Aside from that, I did install xmms, but it can't find it.