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This script automatically scrobbles music playing on your Sonos speakers to Last.fm.
SoCo (Sonos Controller) is a Python library that allows you to control Sonos speakers programmatically.
I have four Sonos speakers and generally enjoy them. They make streaming audio from my ripped files and from Internet services easy and pleasant. The speakers were acquired a few years ago when Sonos supported last.fm scrobbling (tracing music plays).
Suffice it to say, Sonos has had a quite bad sequence of quarters from the software development perspective. Not much impact on me really. Apple Music playlist scanning has been crappy for a few years now, and since Sonos seems to rely on an outdated way to get access to that data, I’m not holding my breath. But then Sonos support for last.fm integration bit the dust.
So I’m looking forward to trying sonos-lastfm to see if it actually
works. Even if not, SoCo looks like fun just for messing around with
my speakers from Python. There’s also dreams of doing my own playlist
management and getting back to the nirvana of “album shuffle” that was
once an iTunes feature.
Here’s the kicker. My last.fm integration still seems to be working for some mysterious reason. I’m sure it’ll go poof the minute I attempt to reconfigure the speakers or tweak the service. And it has been occasionally missing some scrobbles if I don’t have the Sonos desktop app running on a machine somewhere. Whatevs.