So yeah basically being able to scrobble/track music you are playing on media players to Last.fm would be nice. Since now anything playing in the media players won’t get scrobbled. But if you could connect your Last.fm account and then enable scrobbling of the music that would be nice and btw it does work on both Soundcloud and Youtube. It just needs to know the song’s title and artist.
While I like this idea, I don’t see this being possible for the devs. Maybe just scrobble the song manuelly.
It does show the artist and name of the song here so it should be able to be implemented in game.
the media player is through a browser in the game, so unless you can set it up so that you login to youtube (and your last.fm tracks your youtube) and also have it save your youtube login then perhaps. or you’d have to login to the browser, and fully setup last.fm and have it again save that. but i don’t think that’s very doable?
If you have any idea how Last.fm Scrobblers work all they need to do is have you login to your last.fm account so it can scrobble the songs to your last.fm account there’s no need for you to login to youtube since all the scrobbler does is look at the name of the song/artist (meaning the title of the video or song on youtube/soundcloud well actually in this case it just needs to look at it in the game itself from the media player or well since clearly the game can read the name of the video or song same thing should be possible with last.fm scrobbler).
Edit: I just tried using the webscrobbler without logging to youtube and it works like it should, only thing i’m logged to is last.fm i mean it works on sites like bandcamp as well and literally any site that has music can work.
This would introduce an issue of whose last.fm account gets used in a group media player. In your condo it feels obvious, but I know people listen to music together in the nightclub, and the question of pinging the api for multiple accounts could be an issue.
But I can see this working just fine in people’s personal condos or theaters. There’s tons of browser extensions and program extensions for pinging its API.
It has worked fine on like plug.dj where people can become djs that can then play music for a lot of people in a room/community.
It shouldn’t have a problem with multiple people scrobbling the same track at the same time otherwise the system wouldn’t work at all. There are probably thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people constantly listening to music on like Spotify that gets scrobbled and it still works fine.
(also side note sometimes you may mess up and end up scrobbling a song twice at the same time which happens if you for example have the last.fm scrobbler extension on your browser and you play something on the web player spotify but also have last.fm connected on spotify and it does not break the system it just ends up scrobbling your tracks twice every time)
this is an old post but last.fm/listenbrainz/maloja support would be awesome!
this should be doable on the client-side and logically would be independent of whether or not the listener is the host, just paying attention to whether the media player is turned on (and thus the page loaded) or not.
perhaps it would be worth looking into implementing the widely-compatible Web Scrobbler plugin into the game’s chromium embedded framework?