Scrobbling while listening to the radio?

As some of you might know I’ve developed a few applications in the past that used the Last.fm API, for example Last 3FM and Copy Paste Scrobble.

A few weeks back I started working on a new webservice, called Luister.us, that makes it possible to scrobble the music you hear while listening to the radio. You might think it’s similar to Last 3FM and you’re right, it is similar. Actually it’s exactly the same, but a big difference is the fact that this webservice will work for way more radio stations. Also the software behind it is way more advanced than the messy PHP code I used with Last 3FM, but I’ll talk about the later.

I’m currently testing the back end of the service, where all the magic happens basically, and it seems to work pretty well. The software is recognizing plays from the following stations (to name a few):

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Pushing the Bump!

Some of you might know this great little app called Bump. It let’s you share stuff, like pictures, music and contact details, by bumping in to each other. The other day when I was in the shower (I usually get great ideas when I’m taking a shower!) I figured it would be cool if I could send people I’ve bumped with a notification when the content I’ve sent them has changed.

For example: recently a friend of mine got a new mobile phone number. He had to text everyone of his friends letting them know what the new number is and all of his friends had to save this new number on their phones. If they would have bumped and bump would have implemented the idea I came up with it would have been a lot easier. He would have edited his own phone number on his iPhone or Android device, Bump would have noticed the change and asked him if he would like to push this change to his friends. After he confirmed that, his friends would receive a notification and the only thing they would have to do is accept the changes.

Hopefully one of the folks at Bump Technologies (@bumptech) reads this and makes sure it will be implemented.. That would be very awesome!

PS: They might already have this, but I couldn’t find it in their iPhone app.