Add an audio player

[mikerjensen]

Is it a big job to make OpenWebScrobbler feed scrobbles to an audio player? This would mainly be popular with music streaming service users - so i suppose it would depend if the Spotify, etc APIs support this type of application.

[elamperti]

Hi @mikerjensen, are you talking about Spotify only or which other players would you like to use? What would be the use case for this?

[mikerjensen]

Thanks @elamperti, I would like to be able to easily listen to
  other people's scrobbles, either because i know them, or because i
  find their taste in music interesting and a potential way of
  discovering new artists. I see that Last.fm has an option to play
  scrobbles through Spotify, but only if you have a Spotify premium
  account. It would be good if this worked without premium, or on
  the other major streaming services, but not sure if any of their
  API's would support this. 

[elamperti]

Ah, that would be neat. I'm afraid the same would happen in Open Scrobbler or any other platform: it's part of Spotify's business model. I'll leave this ticket open as an audio player request, and if I get to it I'll investigate if there's any way to add something for non-premium users. Cheers!

Possible milestones:

• [ ] Add audio player
• [ ] Investigate player behavior for non-premium users
• [ ] Add support to follow-along other users

[HiRoaR2002]

Hi, @mikerjensen I would like to contribute to this issue. Is there someone who is working on it?

[nighto]

I think that the default for the Spotify iframe player is, if you are not logged in or you are not a premium user, play a 30-seconds excerpt from the song. At least that's what it does on Slack, you paste a music/album/playlist url and it injects this iframe.