"Plugin" for submitting data from MOC to Last.fm

Alright, so it isn't a plugin. As far as I know, MOC doesn't have a plugin structure... Or perhaps it does, but I haven't looked at it. :o/

Anyway -- I faced the problem of liking MOC, but wanting to submit the feed of which songs I listen to Last.fm. other people are able to do it with other players, which have their respective plugins. After searching a bit (not much) I decided to write my own, in Python. It was easy.

I used lastfmsubmitd to handle the interface with the last.fm protocol, and the rest was really easy -- just opening MOC from time to time and asking it which song it is playing.

Of course, it would be nicer if one could execute a program on song change. Is this possible?

Anyway, I thought this might be useful for someone out there, so I am posting here the link to the program.

Nice script, thanks for

Nice script, thanks for that. AFAIK this is the first attempt to connect MOC with lastfm.

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Damian Pietras - MOC developer

You are welcome! I'm glad

You are welcome! I'm glad that someone finds it useful.

For me, at least, it is working quite flawlessly:
http://www.last.fm/user/Anarres/

I am considering rewritting it to make the script a bit better -- a bit more programlike, and less like a quick homemade hack. But I will do that after I am done with exams, in two or three weeks.

One of the problems I am having is with non-ASCII tracks, which tend to display special characters (accented letters, beta, eñe, etc.) in weird ways. That probably has more to do with the encoding of the files themselves and/or the locale setup of my system, though.

Perhaps there is a way to translate these to an ASCII approximation... I need to think on this.

(Just thinking out loud.)

If you want to approximate

If you want to approximate to ASCII you could take a look at 'recode' (standard linux tool).
I used it only in other contexts but afaik it can strip accents and other special 'decorations' from characters.

There is no possibility

There is no possibility to run commands when song is changed now.
See http://moc.daper.net/node/214 for more info.

That is a pity. That option

That is a pity. That option alone would be handy. Or at least a plugin API.

Jack Miller who has recently

Jack Miller who has recently sent me few patches fixing bugs and adding new features (like average bitrate displayed by mocp -i and settings volume from command line) mailed me recently that he is interested in implementation of the OnSongChange config option (and more), so there is a big chance that it will appear in MOC.

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Damian Pietras - MOC developer