SlimScrobbler CVS works!

[Dave Dewey]

Thanks to Ian and Stewart!

The SlimScrobbler plugin for 6.0.1-1 is working perfectly in my setup
(Fedora Core 3).

The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.

- Download from CVS
- Install it
- On the 'Server Settings/Plugins' page make sure that 'AudioScrobbler
Submitter' is checked.
- There is a new Audioscrobbler prefs pane on that same page; enter your
Audioscrobbler userid/password, turn on AutoSubmit. Click 'Change.'

That's it! Slimserver now starts up without any Slimscrobbler errors, and
the plugin works great.

Thanks again guys, I'm ordering a new SB2 today now that this works...

dave

[kdf]

Quoting Dave Dewey <ddewey (AT) cyberthugs (DOT) com>:

>
> Thanks to Ian and Stewart!
>
> The SlimScrobbler plugin for 6.0.1-1 is working perfectly in my setup
> (Fedora Core 3).
>
> The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.
>
> - Download from CVS
> - Install it
> - On the 'Server Settings/Plugins' page make sure that 'AudioScrobbler
> Submitter' is checked.
> - There is a new Audioscrobbler prefs pane on that same page; enter your
> Audioscrobbler userid/password, turn on AutoSubmit. Click 'Change.'
>
> That's it! Slimserver now starts up without any Slimscrobbler errors, and
> the plugin works great.

fyi...since I recall someone mentioning not being able to get debugging working:

There is a pref being used in the plugin, "scrobbler-debug" which has no UI to
change it. You would need to manually set this to 1 in your prefs file and use
d_cli to get debugging output (according to the comments code). However,
looking through the rest of the code, simply changing the scrobbler-debug pref
should do it with or without d_cli or any other debug flags. There are a few
prefs without a UI, but I assume those will come along before release.

-kdf

[bklaas]

That's just too serendipitous for words. I've been chomping at the bit
for weeks to install 6.x on my FC3 machine, but have been holding out
for SlimScrobbler support. Yesterday I finally broke down and decided
that I'd install 6.x and just live without my scrobbler addiction until
support came. And now...here it is!

thanks for the plugin work, intrepid slimserver community!

#!/ben

for the record-- also works great for me. love the integration of
user/pass into the web front-end!

Dave Dewey wrote:
> Thanks to Ian and Stewart!
>
> The SlimScrobbler plugin for 6.0.1-1 is working perfectly in my setup
> (Fedora Core 3).
>
> The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.
>
> - Download from CVS
> - Install it
> - On the 'Server Settings/Plugins' page make sure that 'AudioScrobbler
> Submitter' is checked.
> - There is a new Audioscrobbler prefs pane on that same page; enter your
> Audioscrobbler userid/password, turn on AutoSubmit. Click 'Change.'
>
> That's it! Slimserver now starts up without any Slimscrobbler errors, and
> the plugin works great.
>
> Thanks again guys, I'm ordering a new SB2 today now that this works...
>
> dave
>

[kdf]

Quoting Ben Klaas <bklaas (AT) occamnetworks (DOT) com>:

> That's just too serendipitous for words. I've been chomping at the bit
> for weeks to install 6.x on my FC3 machine, but have been holding out
> for SlimScrobbler support. Yesterday I finally broke down and decided
> that I'd install 6.x and just live without my scrobbler addiction until
> support came. And now...here it is!

worth noting is this this doesn't seem to support proxies. I've attached a diff
to add it in. seems to have worked on my setup.

The plugin also uses its own HTTP GET methods,
instead of slimserver's increasingly optimised non-blocking code. This means
that is the submission server gets slow, you may suffer dropouts and other
performance issues. Hopefully the authors will consider using the built-in
slimserver code at some point.

-kdf

[bklaas]

nice point kdf (as always). My initial success at using the new
slimscrobbler will sour when the audioscrobbler server gets slow, which
in my experience is about every other day. Don't get me wrong, I
looooove having my track history uploaded to audioscrobbler, but a
squeezebox with dropouts makes me a sad panda. In summary, "optimized
non-blocking code" = GOOD.

Of course, this will all smooth out when Google catches wind of
audioscrobbler and slurps them up like the all-powerful ameba they have
become, then provides a pipe the size of Texas to power the thing

kdf wrote:
> Quoting Ben Klaas <bklaas (AT) occamnetworks (DOT) com>:
>
>
>>That's just too serendipitous for words. I've been chomping at the bit
>>for weeks to install 6.x on my FC3 machine, but have been holding out
>>for SlimScrobbler support. Yesterday I finally broke down and decided
>>that I'd install 6.x and just live without my scrobbler addiction until
>>support came. And now...here it is!
>
>
> worth noting is this this doesn't seem to support proxies. I've attached a diff
> to add it in. seems to have worked on my setup.
>
> The plugin also uses its own HTTP GET methods,
> instead of slimserver's increasingly optimised non-blocking code. This means
> that is the submission server gets slow, you may suffer dropouts and other
> performance issues. Hopefully the authors will consider using the built-in
> slimserver code at some point.
>
> -kdf
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

[Bart]

The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.

How do we download it? I have not got the hang of Subversion. I managed to download a Scrobbler.pm from sourceforge. I added my $SCROBBLE_USERID_DEFAULT and $SCROBBLE_PASSWORD_DEFAULT and put it into the Plugins directory, started Slimserver with --d_cli, but slimscrobbler doesn't run.

[bklaas]

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=105780

this lays out the procedure pretty well (provided you are on a unix-like OS)

#!/ben

for the record-- Subversion and CVS are different technologies.

Bart wrote:
> Dave Dewey Wrote:
>
>>The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.
>
> How do we download it? I have not got the hang of Subversion. I
> managed to download a Scrobbler.pm from sourceforge. I added my
> $SCROBBLE_USERID_DEFAULT and $SCROBBLE_PASSWORD_DEFAULT and put it into
> the Plugins directory, started Slimserver with --d_cli, but
> slimscrobbler doesn't run.
>
>

[kdf]

Quoting Bart <Bart.1nftfn (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com>:

>
> Dave Dewey Wrote:
> > The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.
> How do we download it? I have not got the hang of Subversion. I
> managed to download a Scrobbler.pm from sourceforge. I added my
> $SCROBBLE_USERID_DEFAULT and $SCROBBLE_PASSWORD_DEFAULT and put it into
> the Plugins directory, started Slimserver with --d_cli, but
> slimscrobbler doesn't run.

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=105780

you need a lot more than just the Scrobbler.pm, d_cli appears to have nothing to
do with the plugin any more (at least, I haven't seen it in the code anywhere)
You have to manually edit Scrobbler.pm as I have described earlier in order to
get teh debugging output.

-kdf

[Dave Dewey]

Quoting Bart (Bart.1nftfn (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com):

>
> Dave Dewey Wrote:
> > The new code in CVS on SourceForge is the working version.
> How do we download it? I have not got the hang of Subversion. I
> managed to download a Scrobbler.pm from sourceforge. I added my
> $SCROBBLE_USERID_DEFAULT and $SCROBBLE_PASSWORD_DEFAULT and put it into
> the Plugins directory, started Slimserver with --d_cli, but

That's the same thing I did, and it's a mistake.

You no longer have to touch Scrobbler.pm. Your Audioscrobbler userid/passwd
are entered in the Web interface now, much easier and more error-proof.

Go to Server Settings/Plugins, make sure the AudioScrobblerSubmitter is
enabled by default, and then scroll down a bit to the Audioscrobbler prefs
pane.

dave

[Bart]

Working now - thanks for your help.