February 24, 2007
Sing a tune
Posted by bopuc at February 24, 2007 04:11 AM
Viacom executives are in London negotiating the purchase of LastFM, the London based "online social music network" (read: internet radio station), according to a music business source familiar with the negotiations. The purchase price is said to be $450 million dollars.
"I am in your tunEz, tracking uR listening HabiTz!"
I wonder if I delete my account now, will all my stats be deleted?
I could care less about the Last.fm "community". I want my own listening stats. Time for a hack.
Comments
nasty...
will the hack be shareable?
Posted by: Anders at February 24, 2007 11:50 AM
A hack would require a simple web service and probably an entry in your hosts file that gets the audioscrobbler plugin to report tracks to the server of your choice. Feels like a weekend's worth of work or so. Worthwhile?
Posted by: Michal Migurski at February 24, 2007 02:50 PM
Yeah, that makes loads of sense. Was wondering about the audioscrobbling part.
A really simple WS API to a DB, then a basic front end with a basic plugin architecture so people can hack their own stuff (and release it)... and shit why not go whole hog and implement the first distributed social network infrastructure! :D
;p
Posted by: Boris at February 24, 2007 11:06 PM
Posted by: michal Migurski at February 25, 2007 04:11 AM
you know what the sick thing is? I knew this documentation existed (thanks for th elink) but I was totally into spending an afternoon reverse engineering it by intercepting the comm between the client and the mothership. :D
Posted by: Boris at February 25, 2007 04:46 AM