Add support for Spotify client

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A very high priority, but requires some changes on Spotify's part.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tgwizard on 24 Sep 2009 at 12:42

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What specifically is required? 

Original comment by salimfadhley@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2010 at 2:59

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They would have to broadcast what music is playing whenever it starts and 
stops. This
is what the default music player, and all the other supported players, does.

To see just how the default music player does, look at the source (for instance 
here:
http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/cupcake/packages/apps/Music/src/com/andro
id/music/MediaPlaybackService.java
, especially the notifyChange() method).

They could also implement the API specific for SLS:
http://code.google.com/p/a-simple-lastfm-scrobbler/wiki/Developers , but 
probably
they'd want to send their own types of messages. SLS could easily support that.

It would be a very simple procedure to add scrobbling support in Spotify. It 
took me
just about two hours to do the same for RockOn (I also added an option to set 
whether
you want to scrobble att all, from its preferences screen). The code can be 
found
here:
http://github.com/fabrantes/rockonnggl/blob/master/src/org/abrantix/rockon/rocko
nnggl/RockOnNextGenService.java

Original comment by tgwizard on 10 Mar 2010 at 6:04

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Here's the thread on Spotify's support forum asking for scrobbling on android:
http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/add_last_fm_scrobbling_to_the_android_
client

Original comment by tgwizard on 10 Mar 2010 at 6:09

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Original comment by tgwizard on 27 Apr 2010 at 7:40

• Added labels: Type-MusicApp
• Removed labels: Type-Enhancement

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Spotify now scrobbles:
http://www.spotify.com/int/blog/archives/2010/05/25/android-update-0404/

(Although not through SLS)

Original comment by tgwizard on 25 May 2010 at 6:59

• Changed state: Done