I have noticed that my playcounts for tracks are much lower than what they are on last.fm, which, obviously means that its a very unrealistic estimate and pretty much worthless.

So how difficuly would it be to write a plugin or something that uses the last.fm API to take your last.fm listens and then adjust your tags to meet them. Obviously this wouldn't have to be done particularly often unless you use lots of different sources for your last.fm.

Any takers?

I second that.

Hmm, good idea. It'd also allow people (like myself ) who haven't used playcount before to pull down all the statistics from last.fm so that all the tracks in the library don't start at zero.

Yeah Insolent - that's my issue, I've been using foo for ages, but play count came out way after I signed up to last.fm.

It doesn't seem like a horribly complex plugin to write - just needs knowledge of the foobar and last.fm apis. Can't wait 'till I learn to code at Uni.

If this topic should be in the plugins forum please move it :]

great idea, hope somone volunteers to do that

Yeah it would be awesome. Only catch is I don't know how detailed the data you can get from last.fm is. Whether you can get data for s specific user for a specific track or what S:

The only protocol I've seen is used for submission, not retrieval of data.

you can get a lot of data from audioscrobbler.net (http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/). But i think you would have to go through all weekly track charts and add the playcounts for a track together. This Way you could get a First Played date, too (only the week).

and how about retrieving data from foosic ? considering the fact that the community here may have (?) some influence on the protocol, even uploading playcount statistics could be possible...

Foosic is okay but I think more people use last.fm :/

Here, I've crossposted to this: http://www.last.fm/forum/21604/_/246492

Did anyone do this yet? Has anyone got any advice for getting a dev interested?

i would second a unified audioscrobbler plugin that takes advantage of the web services.


What I would really like to see has been implemeted in Media Portal. Their last.fm plugin will not only reports tracks but will also take your neighbour recomended, or related track feeds and build a playlist based on this info. Ie if i start listening to a random rap song it will look for more similarly tagged artists, and keep on plugging away.

alternatly just being able to pull in the various xml feeds and display related artist info would be awsome.

Yeah that could be pretty neat, as long as it had the playcount functionality thing.

Shame no devs are looking at this as yet :S

Good news: I think I am what you are calling a "dev" - and I'm looking at it right now.
Bad news: It's not possible.
Last.Fm does not allow this kind of data access. You only have access to the play counter of your Top50 through http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/RJ/toptracks.txt.

Regarding tacom8's requests - I have just released a component that does parts of this: http://chron.visiondesigns.de/foobar2000/#foo_scrobblecharts

As far as I know both foosic and last.fm only give access to your most played tracks... unlike the tracker in winamp where you can see data for every track you've played. Kind of disappointing... I wish there was an online service with too much bandwidth which would keep track of everything.

It is possible (AFAIK) to poll all the users weekly charts and construct a play count from that. If you follow the link tool++ posted above (http://www.last.fm/forum/21604/_/246492), someone has written a Perl script that apparently does it. All that's needed is for someone to put into fb2k-form.

I love this idea. I really hope you'll keep on working on it. Thanks!

OOoooOoooOooh

This would be awesome!