I was love with the last.fm radio until they made it a subscription only feature. And since I refuse to pay for something that I can get for free, I decided to give up the last fm radio and look for alternatives. I found the shoutcast radio and also the aol radio inbuilt in winamp. They were good and did the job for me.
But what I missed was the scrobbling of tracks. I wanted a plugin which could enable scrobbling of streaming music into my lastfm account. I found none. This was until I stumbled across Streamripper.
Streamripper is a plugin for winamp which intercepts incoming stream and downloads them to the hard disk. It has a few options using which you can configure the location where the files are to be saved, the maximum size of the said folder, whether t he downloaded tracks are to be added to the current winamp playlist and so on.
So now to scrobble the tracks, all that needs to be done is this – start streaming some radio station. Streamripper detects an incoming stream and offers to save it. Start the interception. Now two streams get created – one for your winamp and the other for the ripper. You could continue listening to the station. But what I generally do is to switch to a different station for time being. Once the ripper has downloaded a few tracks and appended them to the playlist, I switch to the playlist created by the ripper. And obviously the lastfm scrobbler scrobbles the tracks played.
Occasionally, you might have to empty the contents of the folder where your tracks were being downloaded.
Happy streaming and scrobbling.
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