Re: [Librefm-discuss] Questions about Love

[Darryl G. Wright]

Thanks, Mike.

I noticed the existence of this API now too:

http://www.last.fm/api/show/track.love

Do I take that to mean that the 'ratings' argument I am using to pass
back 'the love' is now deprecated? That would explain why I am not
seeing any results.

Cheers,
Darryl

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Mike Sheldon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Darryl,
>
>  You can use the user.getLovedTracks method to find out all the tracks a
> user has loved. The documentation for this method can be seen here:
> http://www.last.fm/api/show/user.getLovedTracks
>
>  Example usage for Libre.fm would be:
> http://alpha.libre.fm/2.0/?method=user.getLovedTracks&user=elleo
>
>  There isn't a mechanism for querying individual tracks in the last.fm
> api, so presumably you'll want to just grab the whole set of loved
> tracks at start up and then check against it for each song.
>
> Cheers,
>  Mike.
>
> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:05 -0700, Darryl G. Wright wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I am curious about how the 'love' option works in the client API. I
>> just added the 'ratings' field to my scrobbler client which now
>> carries "L" for live if the user clicks on the option on the client.
>> Given that there's no real feedback on the song itself from the server
>> though, I am wondering if it's typical for the client to store this
>> information locally? Or is there some method I should be querying to
>> find out as a track starts playing whether or not the user rated it?
>>
>> The reason I ask is because when I've seen this implemented on most
>> other clients the 'Love' icon usually shows up when a track that you
>> previously loved comes on.
>>
>> My other question is - on Libre.fm specifically, is there a way you
>> can see which tracks were loved or is that aspect of the API
>> unsupported? Right now my client is either not working properly or
>> nothing is showing up in my listening history.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Darryl
>>
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