foo_scrobble

Overview

foo_scrobble is a foobar2000 component for scrobbling to https://www.last.fm/.

• Uses the Scrobbling 2.0 API. You authorize the component with last.fm instead of entering your login credentials into foobar2000.
• Supports "Now Playing" notifications.
• Handles intermittent network outages or reconnects well. No "waiting for handshake" issue.
• Manages the scrobble cache automatically. There is no need to manually submit the cache.
• Allows custom tags for scrobbled details.

To get started, open foobar2000's preferences, navigate to Tools > Last.fm Scrobbling and use the top button to authorize your client. The button has a helpful tooltip with detailed instructions.

Prerequisites

You may have to install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022. Windows 7 also requires Update for Windows 7 (KB2999226) which usually is already installed via Windows Update.

Building

Requires Visual Studio 2022 (17.3.0) with:

• Workloads:
  • Desktop development with C++
  • .NET desktop development
  • .NET Core cross-platform development
• Components:
  • MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.33-17.3)

The .NET workloads are not required for the foo_scrobble library, but are used by the included test server project and the build.proj script assumes those are present.

External dependencies are consumed using the foo_scrobble-deps NuGet package. Before opening the solution or building from the command-line, run the eng\Build-Dependencies.ps1 script to build and install the package to the solution. The foobar2000 SDK is already contained in the repository.

To build a release version run the following from a Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt:

msbuild -m build.proj

This creates the foo_scrobble-<VERSION>.fb2k-component and a foo_scrobble-<VERSION>.zip archive (containing both DLL and symbols) in the build\publish directory.

License

Code licensed under the MIT License.