My Journal and Diary
2008
October
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Finally Can Scrobble My Streamed Music Collection
Last.fm is a neat service that "watches" the music you play every day, day in and day out, and figures out your musical taste. It can then use that information to recommend music you might like and connect you with people you might like. I've been using Last.fm for about a year. But about six months ago or so, I decided I wanted to be able to listen to my music collection wherever I happened to be-- whether that's at home, in an airport or hotel room, at work, or while visiting my out-of-town relatives. I installed a Linux server, connected my 500 gig external drive to it, then set up "GnuMP3d" to stream my music to me anytime, anywhere. Only problem-- Last.fm doesn't want to Scrobble streams! Who knows why, but all of the players I've tried (and I've tried a lot) disable scrobbles to Last.fm if I'm listening to a streamed MP3 file. It has to reside on the computer in question for Last.fm to count it. Until now! I accidentally stumbled onto a registry tweak for Winamp that will scrobble streams, so I'm happily counting music again!! Yay! Just one of the silly little things that makes a geek like me happy. ~JasonI've had some questions, so here is the answer. Go to:
My Computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Audioscrobbler/Winamp-Plugin/
Add a new DWORD key-value pair:
allowhttp=1
(right click, choose New->DWORD. Name it allowhttp, and set the value to 1.)
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