I worked on a Pandora solution

Due to the conversation over at the thread http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/49441 I started to think about how to make http://www.pandora.com submit tracks to Last.fm.

To make a long story short (more detail over at the above thread) I put up a usable web interface to do such a thing that you are all free to try.

If you go to http://www.real-ity.com/pandora/ you can type in your last.fm credentials and the pandora screen will pop up. At that point do whatever it is you would normally do in pandora. On the side will be a little window that will tell you what track it's going to submit, and when it finally did submit it.

This solution is with a coctail of javascript, PHP, and Perl. So if anyone else runs thier own server that would like me to package up what I did let me know and I can get it to them. They will need access to install perl modules and have a minimum version of perl 5.8.7 running.

I will say this upfront, your last.fm password gets sent in plaintext. So if you don't trust me or whatever, then you shouldn't use it.

If people decide this is worthwhile i'll put some more energy into cleaning it up, adding some links and making it pretty. I know where's operational things I would like to change as well (if you pause the stream and restart that same song it may try to resubmit it for instance).

Thanks for listening.

Working great, thanks a lot!

I took a shot at the skip thing, hopeully that should be fixed now. I couldn't fully test "for sure" because Pandora said I hit my max of "next" for the hour :P With the pause thing i'm working on that as well.

In regards to listening to a whole song before it's submitted, I don't think that will be possible. Unfortunately Pandora sends the same calls when you hit the end of a song or skip the song. Either way it just knows "end this song, next song please." Same thing with pause, when you hit play after it being paused it sends the same calls as if it were the beginning of a new song.

I can't wait to go home and try this. Kudos to you, internet person!

Quoth closedmouth:
Bug: it seems to have a problem with special characters. It truncated the artist Kruder & Dorfmeister to just Kruder.

Otherwise, good work.

that´s probably pandodra bug, and not in the plugin.
or they just don´t have that specific band

thank you so much! I've always wanted to use Pandora but I also really want to keep tabs on what I listen to, so this is absolutely fabulous.

Hey Grady. I'm on a Mac as well (Well PC and Mac, but primarily Mac) and it's been working. I'll check it out. Maybe something I changed broke something.
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Well I just went through a few tracks, and it seems to be working OK. Do you have javascript turned on? Maybe try with a different browser? I havn't tried with Safari, I should do that. I'm a Firefox, Camino guy. I tested on IE on the PC as well.

I'll also look at the special characters issue probably tomorrow. I should be able to fix it up.

Thanks,
Gabe

A minute and a half works for me. Done!

Terpio,

Makes sense. I'll take a look at the special characters thing today.

Yeah, mine stopped submitting all the sudden too. And I've used it several times so it ain't a try-one-time thing.

And It is :) No apologies are needed - it's new development so there surely will be some tings to work on. I think everybody here are very grateful for all work you do on this pandora-last.fm tingy :D It must be time consuming so again thank you very much for it :)

Offtopic: My writing in English isn't very good (I should mention this before ;) ) so sorry for all mistakes I might make.

Edit: Gabek you must be working on this charts problem right now :) and You are close because it's just submitted to my profile track Metropolis \(Acoustic Version\) :) Well there will be some profile cleaning in order for me but I'm happy that your web interface is working :)

It's working perfectly now :D I have spend some time on pandora and real-ity submitted correctly artists and tracks such as:

Phil Collins - I Cannot Believe It's True
Lansing-Dreiden - Locks In Shadows
Agnetha Fältskog - Man
Céline Dion - A New Day Has Come (radio remix)
Sting - Fragile (Live)
Howie Day - You & A Promise (Demo)

And your web interface even correct Pandora.com and submits artists like Agnetha Fältskog and not Agnetha Faltskog (that's how it show this artist on pandora) or Céline Dion and not Celine Dion :)

I'm still waiting for some tracks with char ? but it will take a while as I have used all my "next" :>

I'm sure it will work perfectly too :) Thank you so much :D

Well maybe it's corrected by musicbrainz.org (I think I have read somewhere that last.fm is using it). No matter :) Glad it work that way :)

And I have feature request too: can message box with information about submitting be cleared with every song "skiping" in pandora? It will be more clear that way. And lazy people like me ;) wouldn't have to scroll that box often than necessary :D

Offtopic: My "track played" count in last.fm profile stopped updating :( Are yours working ok? Edit: I have just find answer for that: "Cluster 4: Online - There is a slight delay with Cluster 4 so tracks played counters and charts will be delayed. Please be patient."