by TJOHO » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:54 pm
Right, the sticky point is how to submit the tracks following the rules (i.e. not triggering their spam protection).
If I have listened to an hour of music on my portable device, it is possible that the script would have to "take over" MM for an hour to submit the tracks (but again, without raising the playcount of the tracks in question one more time).
That is certainly inconvenient, but to live with if one can define when it should go to "submission mode". Like this:
1. The portable syncs with MM, and the script creates a list of tracks to submit to last.fm. It could pop up a prompt: "There are X songs played, do you want to start submitting to last.fm? While submitting, you cannot listen to other music, or tracks will not be submitted"
2. If the user decides to wait, there could be a button or shortcut to activate the submission process later. Typically, I could do that while I am on a lunch break anyway.
That's what I do now; I write down what songs I have listened to on my portable, and when I go to lunch, I set Winamp to submit those songs to last.fm. I'd just prefer not having to write down everything (sometimes I forget), and to use a different app just for submission.
Right, the sticky point is how to submit the tracks following the rules (i.e. not triggering their spam protection).
If I have listened to an hour of music on my portable device, it is possible that the script would have to "take over" MM for an hour to submit the tracks (but again, without raising the playcount of the tracks in question one more time).
That is certainly inconvenient, but to live with if one can define when it should go to "submission mode". Like this:
1. The portable syncs with MM, and the script creates a list of tracks to submit to last.fm. It could pop up a prompt: "There are X songs played, do you want to start submitting to last.fm? While submitting, you cannot listen to other music, or tracks will not be submitted"
2. If the user decides to wait, there could be a button or shortcut to activate the submission process later. Typically, I could do that while I am on a lunch break anyway.
That's what I do now; I write down what songs I have listened to on my portable, and when I go to lunch, I set Winamp to submit those songs to last.fm. I'd just prefer not having to write down everything (sometimes I forget), and to use a different app just for submission.