Monday, June 06, 2005

Cross-Platform iPod Plugin for Audioscrobbler

"AudioPod is a tool written in PHP that will parse the "iTunesDB/Play Counts" file from an iPod and submit played tracks to AudioScrobbler."
Ever since I got my iPod, my stats have stopped updating on audioscrobbler. This is mostly because the only times I'm able to submit data to audioscrobbler are at work if I use the computer to play music or at home, while I'm doing other things usually. Anyway, I got my iPod and stopped using the PC at work to listen to music because: a) the computer cannot hold as much as my iPod. b) the computer is old and SSSSlllllooooowwwww. Perhaps because I was finally able to listen to whatever I wanted all day, I stopped listening to music as much when I got home. For all of these reasons my iPod's playcounts were continually updating, but my audioscrobbler stats weren't. This finally started to really bother me when I got the new Gorillaz album, Demon Days, so I went looking in Audioscrobbler's forums to see if anyone had finished the solutions they were working on. There were a couple of hacks before, but they both screwed with my playcounts in iTunes and were generally akward to implement. Alas, now they seem to have done it, and I'll try it out this evening.Update: It works. Hooraah!

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