Updated Sep 15, 2007 by manoftomorrow
Labels:	Phase-Implementation, client, scrobbler, Featured

ClientScrobbler

Scrobbler class to submit tracks to a Last.fm profile

Package com.lfm.client

Class public class Scrobbler

Inheritance Scrobbler

Dependency com.lfm.client.Session, com.lfm.model.Track

Scrobbler Summary

"Scrobbles" tracks to a specified Last.fm profile using the 1.2 submission protocol

Details

Constructor Arguments	Summary
Username	(required) Last.fm username/profile to submit tracks to.
Password	(required) Password for the specified user.
Methods	Summary
connect	Establishes a session with the last.fm web service
submit	Method accepts a single Track object to submit.
submitNowPlaying	Method accepts a single Track object to submit for real-time information (not yet tested)
Events	Summary
complete	Dispatched when a a track submission is complete (Event.COMPLETE)
connect	Dispatched when a session has been established and ready to scrobble (Event.CONNECT)
error	Dispatched when a session was unable to be established (ErrorEvent.ERROR). Use the text property of the event to see details
init	Dispatched when a track submission has started (Event.INIT)
ioError	Dispatched when a session could not be established or a submission failure. Use the text property for details. (IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR)
Properties (read-only)	Summary
ready (Boolean)	If a proper session has been established, ready will return true

Example Usage

import com.lfm.client.Scrobbler;
import com.lfm.model.Track;

var scrobbler:Scrobbler = new Scrobbler("Username","Password");
scrobbler.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT,scrobblerReady);
scrobbler.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,scrobbleHandler);
scrobbler.connect();

var track:Track = new Track();
track.artist = "The Decemberists";
track.title = "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect";
track.album = "Castaways and Cutouts";
track.length = 269;
track.source = Track.SOURCE_USER;
track.timestamp = Track.dateToTimestamp(new Date());

function scrobblerReady(event:Event) {
    scrobbler.submit(track);
}

function scrobbleHandler(event:Event) {
    trace("Track scrobbled!");
}

Comment by frederikheyninck, Sep 12, 2009

I tried this but always got 1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 0.

Comment by frederikheyninck, Sep 12, 2009

The session class has no constructor, i changed ScrobblerSession? in the session class to Session