How to scrobble songs from a transistor FM radio
Steffen found this cool mix of Ruby, Shazam, packet sniffing and last.fm. He then wrote some proof of concept Python scripts to run locally on a jailbreaked iPhone. We agreed it would be pretty neat to rebuild one of my Now Playing screens into a Last.fm one and use that for the project.
So here’s how it works
And here it is, working (the first two songs are demos of the nowplaying screen)
Over the air scrobbling and displaying from Morten Just on Vimeo.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Oh, this is brilliant!
Can you hook it up to spotify too? I miss my scrobbles…
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Yes, any sound that travels through the air is scrobblable with this hack :)
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
by the way, you may be more interested in a purely digital solution http://www.last.fm/group/Scrobble+for+Spotify
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
thanks. Stupid me. It was only a google away, and I actually found it yesterday, but somehow didn’t SEE it… Scrobbling away!
December 7th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Nice post. Thank you for the info. Keep it up.