We have mentioned the social music recommendation/web radio site Last.FM a couple of times here on Pocket Picks - most recently the beta of AsPlayer a couple of weeks ago.
AsPlayer collects data about music played on your phone and ‘Scrobbles’ it to Last.FM. The app works fairly well for an early beta, but is unsigned and requires S60 Python to run.
Mobbler has pretty much the same feature set as AsPlayer, but is a native Symbian app which has been helpfully signed by the developer.
Sadly, like AsPlayer, Mobbler lacks the ablity to access Last.FM’s recommendations or streamed music. Any coders out there fancy taking up the challenge?
Social music site Last.FM uses a process called ‘Audioscrobbling’ to automatically grab data about music you are listening to and upload it to a central database.
Data from ’scrobbled’ tracks is used to build up a profile of your musical taste. Last.FM uses this profile to assemble a personalised streaming music station of similar artists and musical styles.
Asplayer is a Python app that brings this functionality to S60 3rd Edition phones for the first time. It only supports the scrobbling side of the equation at the moment - artist and title data from tracks played on your phone’s media player are uploaded to Last.FM using your internet connection - you will still need to go to the Last.FM website in order to listen to your customised playlist.
Asplayer is available here and requires a copy of Python for S60 and an account with Last.Fm, all available for free.
Pocket Picks takes no responsibility for readers whose musical taste generates streams of 80s hair metal or progressive jazz. You have only yourselves to blame.
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