I decided to go ahead and create a group for foobar users on Audioscrobbler: http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Foobar%20Users

Join today and show how great your music taste is with you superior audio player .

Joined !

You and 29 others

joined!


and what about the audioscrobbler plugin for 0.8?



ooops
msvcr71.dll...
ok it works now

joined...
audioscrobbler is so cool!

Cool, we have 53 members including me

joined also...my name there is I3lack0ut

I took the liberty to create Hydrogenaudio group to Audiscrobbler. Please, join if you want to. You may join as many groups as you want.
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Hydrogenaudio

Signed up as well, hoping to contribute some odd music tastes to the world

Fun idea. I signed up with the Foobar group. Nice to see a lot of Flaming Lips fans here. ;-)

Excellent work ScudAudio. Very cool site indeed. I'm always looking for new types of music to listen to, so hopefully this will help guide me a little bit.

heh. i think that's mostly me, i joined and blew the numbers sommat silly, same for Mercury Rev oopsie hehe (the numbers aren't faked either) although a lot is missing from when audioscrobberl had problems

Nice to see Modest Mouse up there.
I've joined but I can't get the plugin to work, says there's a missing MSVCR7dll.
Anyone know what it is and if I could get it somewhere?

Joined as TheQat in both groups.

I have uploaded it for you here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....t=0#entry191552

Now, if they'd only get rid of the ugly CamelCaps in the forum name. It's not that much harder to type in "foobar2000" (the predominant form in the app, complete with lowercase first letter) as opposed to "FooBar"...

Is anyone else getting "Handshake failed: Bad username" errors? I'm using the 1.2.2 plugin with fb2k 0.8, no proxy settings.

Dumb question: Are you sure you entered the username you registered @audioscrobbler.com ?

Ooo, thanks.
Twas the msvcr71.dll that Saint linked to though, I was just being silly and didn't somehow didn't type the 1. Meh.

Yes, I double- and triple-checked the username and password, even copy/pasted them from textpad into audioscrobbler.com (logged in fine) and the plugin (same error).

Ah, well, I'll keep on trying....

Woah. I'm certainly impressed with the number of foobar users using Audioscrobbler .

Sorry for the plugin bugs, I'm too busy to reboot into Windows at the moment. I'll fix them up in about 2 weeks when my university term ends. Thanks for bearing with me .

[edit]The ugly caps in the forum name are gone in the database, so they'll be fixed whenever we reset the cache... my co-admin RJ has a tendency to spell foobar that way

I know it's a silly question, but have those with login failure problems tried restarting the player? I know there are still some bugs in that respect...
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yes i had exactly the same problem. and then it suddenly started working, i can't explain it. now i'm afraid of changing my password or reinstalling anything if i could think what it was i'd post so russ what have a chance to fix it. but there *is* some weirdness here.

re. the handshake bug- i have been told that the plugin doesn't work from behind nat or similar. doesn't work for me, either

well i'm behind NAT, and like i said, it wasn't working, and now it is. so i know for a fact it *can* work behind NAT.. don't see why it shouldnt?!

but we've gone OT i think, someone should start a thread just about this if there isn't one alrady.

There is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't work from behind NAT - it uses pure HTTP and works fine here behind 2 NAT boxes and a firewall. Proxy support, however, doesn't work (yet). If you start a new thread, PM me and I'll read it.

so, yeah, just to set the record straight, i had a space in my username, and that doesn't fly in the foobar plugin. i retract my previous comment

hey audioscrobler is down again. big surprise.

why do i keep going back to it?

because it's free, interesting, and only down for about 6 hours..

yea i suppose i can't complain because it is free. but it has been down on and off for the past year or so, sometimes for months on end. you'd think by this point they'd get all the bugs (or whatever causes them downtime) figured out by now. it's just frustrating is all.

anyway, i wish there was a non-internet alternative to this because when it is up it is a cool thing.. . don't think that's gonna happen though.

Bummer that it's down. Figures, now that I'm hopelessly hooked. ;-)

Does the plugin save song stats in the meantime? The plugin status says "Submitting cache..." but I'm not sure how to interpret that message.

Well, I use foo_text to write down statistics of every song I play and have created a small PHP script to parse the file and save results to a local database.. It's still quite ugly though, and definitely not too user friendly Don't know if it's worth of any further development as the scrobbler seems to be handling the same job very well.

heh, you're right, the downtime has been bad at times. that's mostly hardware problems/limitations though afaik. their programming seems excellent. my results are very skewed as a result because i i go through "phases" of listening to certain kinds of music and some whole "phases" (artists) were lost while others (like for me, Flaming Lips for example ) weren't.

Thanks to the latest update, I've moved the foobar users group into the "Media Players" subgroup. This shouldn't really affect anyone unless you're browsing for the group.

I hear ya. I see that effect already. I play music pretty much non-stop, and a lot got lost during this outtage. Oh well.

Have you checked out this java applet yet? It's an immensely cool way to see the links between bands.

Someone pointed out another website like this: www.listen-to.com

However, they have terrible foobar support (their plugin is outdated) but overall, the site seems more matured.

well folks, audioscrobbler seems to be a bit too down for my liking. anyone have any news on what's gone wrong?

edit: ah! literally the minute after i post this, it comes up and it was.. a Power Failure! news says they have a backlog to process, but i don't understand how there can be a backlog when they weren't able to take submissions.

Pretty discouraging so far. But I'm glad it wasn't another database outtage.

I was a bit puzzled that I haven't shown up in "The Flaming Lips" fan list for the Foobar group, but I see what's happened: I've tagged the band name without "The", so I'm in the "Flaming Lips" list! I find this splitting of stats a bit distressing.

Edit: Looking further into the forums, this issue won't be resolved until AS incorporates MusicBrainz. Until then, take the stats with a grain of salt.

You plug-in and the server each have a cache... Your plug-in logs your data until it can submit it (handshakes okay, submission interval transpires, etc.) and then the server processes the submissions as quickly as possible. If the server goes down for awhile, everyone’s plug-in is busy building the local cache, so once the server goes online, it gets slammed with submissions, and has to process all of the logs from all of the plug-ins out there. Once it ‘catches up,’ the submission interval can go down and there’s less of a wait for the sever to process the data, so it appears instantaneous.

I had hoped it would work this way, but the plug-in did not cache more than a few songs after AS went down for database maintenance. The rest of the evening is lost. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think I restarted foobar during that time.

Well Joined your group

Joined the group, so I'm bumping your thread.