This thrills me to no end, it is a way to scrobble my Rhapsody music to Last.fm. Finally! It's called Rhobbler, or the few words on the website that describe it, "the dead simple tool to submit your Rhapsody listening information to Last.FM."
All you need is your Last.fm info and your Rhapsody tracks feed. It will send your listening history to Last.fm every hour based on your feed. Of course your Rhapsody listening history needs to be public for this to work.
It's not completely real time since it is sending updates every hour. I also don't think Rhapsody is too quick about updating my feed, I listened to a few tracks before the hourly update and the feed hasn't updated with those tracks yet, but they will probably be there before the end of the day.
Previously I was using Yottamusic, which had a few drawbacks from pulling straight from Rhapsody. One drawback was that current releases weren't always available in the catalog; the other was that I could never get my library and listening history to synchronize so tracks I listened to on my mp3 player were never sent to Last.fm. But now since Rhapsody is no longer supporting the non-public API, and Yottamusic decided to close down their service, I lost my only method of even getting those tracks to Last.fm.
That is, until now. Although delayed, the real benefit to using Rhobbler is that I can actually send a more complete picture of my listening history to Last.fm. I do listen to things through my computer, but I probably listen to more of my Rhapsody music on my mp3 player. The tracks are synched when I plug the player into my computer and my listening history is actually updated to reflect what I listened to on my player. A feature I do like about Rhapsody. I don't spend a lot of time creating playlists either, but I love 'Rhapsody Channels'. I only listen to one channel regularly but when I plug in my mp3 player that channel reloads automatically with new music, usually about 4.5 hours worth. I listen to audiobooks most regularly with my mp3 player, but having at least one constantly updated channel on there is a great way to ensure that I always have music when I want it.
I am pretty excited about this so I hope it continues to work!
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This is, indeed,very cool, and I hope it works out for you. Did you see that Last.FM will now stream full tracks too, though? Check their blog :-)
So to answer your question on Last.fm, Andy, it's sort of working. All of the Raconteurs tracks are from Rhapsody. The tracks I listened to yesterday were from a channel but I listened to them through my computer (something I don't usually do).
I'm going to try updating my mp3 player now to see if and when those tracks get added to my feed. It was my impression they got added to my listening history in the past.
I'll keep playing!
Just read Last.fm announcement...awesome! I'll have to try that out and see if the subscription service will be something I'm interested in.
I can't say I would completely drop Rhapsody though, one thing they do have is a nice catalog.