Wednesday, November 21, 2007

update on beta last.fm and mediamonkey compatibility

I got my reply from last.fm staff about said problem, and apparently it's because in installing the beta client it also automatically updated the plugins, which affect mediamonkey since the winamp plugin (which MM uses) is now updated to accommodate the latest winamp release (which, by the way, looks pretty slick, so much so I actually downloaded and tried out, and I rather gleefully say that functionality-wise it is still nowhere nearing MM.) and inadvertently loses the support for MM.

The rather simple solution is in this thread on the MM forum, but just to sum things up:

Download this .dll file. Exit MM and Last.fm, Locate the Plugins folder for MM (usually C:/Program Files/MediaMonkey/Pugins), and overwrite the file "gen_wa2_scrobbler.dll" with this file with the same name. Restart MM and it should work.

(I suspect it will work just as fine to simply backup your existent scrobbler.dll if you already have had MM installed and scrobbling working. Install beta or any version that has winamp plugin updated, and overwrite the gen_wa2_scrobbler.dll file with backup.)

Never used MM to scrobble before? It's easy. In the last.fm client, click on "tools" --> "Get plugin" --> next --> Add --> choose "Winamp" in the dropdown box and then click on 'browse' to locate your MediaMonkey folder, choose MediaMonkey.exe, click "Open" and then "Ok". You are set to scrobble now. ;)

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Now playing: Diary Of Dreams - Darker

1 comment:

  1. Did I tell you everytime my plugin's updated, i have to come search for this post and download the scrobbler file? LOL

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