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):
