"now_playing" won't have any effect to the statistics, for that use "submit". Use "submit" AFTER playing the song.


require 'digest/md5'
require 'fileutils'
require 'md5'
require 'net/http'
require 'thread'
require 'uri'



Config={}
Config[:user]="yourlastfmusername"
Config[:password]="yourpassword"

Submission_settings={}


def do_handshake
timestamp = Time.now.gmtime.to_i.to_s

md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(Config[:password])
md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(md5 + timestamp)

# replace c=tst and v=1.0 to a vaild id of a last.fm client.

query = "/?hs=true&p=1.2&c=tst&v=1.0&u=#{Config[:user]}&t=#{timestamp}&a=#{md5}"

begin
Net::HTTP.start("post.audioscrobbler.com", 80) do |http|
resp = http.get(query).body.strip

case resp
when /^OK\n([0-9a-z]+)\n(.+)\n(.+)/
puts("handshake succeeded")
Submission_settings[:session_id] = $1
Submission_settings[:now_playing_url] = URI.parse($2)
Submission_settings[:submission_url] = URI.parse($3)
when /^BANNED$/
puts("banned")
when /^BADTIME$/
puts("bad time, go fix your clock")
when /^FAILED (.+)$/
puts("handshake failed - #{resp}")
when /^BADAUTH$/
puts("handshake failed - bad username/password")
else
puts("bad response in handshake - #{resp}")
end
end
rescue SocketError => err
puts("socket error: #{err}")
rescue SystemCallError => err
puts("system call error: #{err}")
rescue IOError => err
puts("io error: #{err}")
rescue Timeout::Error
puts("timeout during handshake")
end
end

def now_playing(a)
[:band,:song,:album,:lenght,:nr,:mb].each do |i|
a[i]="" unless a[i]
a[i]=a[i].to_s.gsub(/ /,'_')
end

Net::HTTP.post_form(Submission_settings[:now_playing_url],{"s"=>Submission_settings[:session_id],"a"=>a[:band], "t"=>a[:song], "b"=>a[:album],"l"=>a[:lenght], "n"=>a[:nr], "m"=>a[:mb] })
end


def submit(a)
[:band,:song,:album,:lenght,:rating,:nr,:mb].each do |i|
a[i]="" unless a[i]
a[i]=a[i].to_s.gsub(/ /,'_')
end

Net::HTTP.post_form(Submission_settings[:now_playing_url],{"s"=>Submission_settings[:session_id],"a[0]"=>a[:band], "t[0]"=>a[:song],"i[0]" =>Time.now.to_i,"o[0]" => 'P', "r[0]"=>a[:rating], "b[0]"=>a[:album],"l[0]"=>a[:lenght], "n[0]"=>a[:nr], "m[0]"=>a[:mb] })
end