last.fm Plugin

Hi,

Heres an early christmas present for everyone, I've written a fairly =20
simple last.fm plugin for Zinf.

A quick summary of last.fm (used to be called audioscrobbler) for those o=
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you who have never heard of it (taken from their website):

"Join the social music revolution at Last.fm. It's fun, it's free, it's =20
all about the music.

You get your own online music profile that you can fill up with the music=
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you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station and=
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to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new =20
artists and songs you might like. It's addictive, it's growing, it's free=
, =20
it's music."
-- http://www.last.fm

Basically, the plugin submits what music you listen to, then last.fm work=
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out what other music you might like, based on what other people who like =
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the same music listen to.

The plugin is avaliable from my arch repository as
[email protected]/zinf--lastfm--0.1

It uses a copy of libscrobbler (released under GNU from last.fm) to =20
actually talk with the servers.

To get it to work, you need to compile with --enable-experimental  (it =20
uses musicdb to get track metadata), then add lastfm.ui to SecondryUIs in=
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your preferences, as well as add your username and password.

e.g.

SecondaryUI: lastfm.ui
LastFMUsername: username
LastFMPassword: password


There are currently a few issues which I know of,
  - It ignores any proxy settings you may have
  - It can easily get confused if your metadata isn't valid UTF-8
  - It's currently using the "tst" plugin id when talking to the server, =
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Zinf hasn't been assigned an ID yet
  - There is no way to set the username/password in the preferences dialo=
g

Feel free to play around with it and tell me if you have problems.

Happy Christmas,
David

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