Player hooks with data arguments

[sewnie]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Recently, I have stopped using spotify-player simply because libreapot does not has support for external connections such as last.fm, and can not do notifications without Dbus.

Describe the solution you'd like
A hook system that launches a program with arguments set in the configuration for events such as pre, post, during (second interval) for sub-events for playing, pausing, skipping, etc..

I can use these to pass to notification or lastfm scrobller clients.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using librespot or spotifyd directly, I believe librespot has direct support for this feature, so I don't think it would be trivial to implement it here.

[sewnie]

@aome510 i would like to hear from this.

i am tired of the propietary spotify client.

[aome510]

I've been quite busy lately, so I won't be able to implement this soon. However, will put this up in my TODO list and see look into ways to integrate the last.fm APIs, if any.

[sewnie]

well, this feature request is for hooks, which is alot simpler than implementing the last.fm API, since that can be handled by another program making the stack simpler.

[aome510]

Plan to implement this next week or so. Does writing player events in a cache file work? You can write a script to watch for changes in that file every second or so, and port that to last.fm client. Lmk if I need to include any fields other than the event data (I plan to include the timestamp).

[sewnie]

honestly been using the propietary spotify client for a long while now, i'd much rather have librespot itself actually supporting this shit rather than me having to send last.fm api requests constantly

[aome510]

Just saw this issue: jpochyla/psst#424. Look like lastfm scrobbling is supported via Spotify connect, so it should work by default with spotify_player. I just double check on last.fm website and it shows all the scrobbles when I use spotify_player. Can you confirm? If that's the case, I'll close this issue.

[sewnie]

Wow, okay!!!! I'll check tommorow!!

I will be very happy if this is true.

[sewnie]

SEEMS TO WORK!!
although, spotify cant quite see what i'm playing, so that spotify yearly thing wont quite work

[sewnie]

thank u

[aome510]

although, spotify cant quite see what i'm playing, so that spotify yearly thing wont quite work

Related librespot-org/librespot#913. That's one thing I miss from the official app and wish that librespot figure out ways to reverse-engineer the feature.

[sewnie]

It is a bit infuriating to be honest, considering its been a problem for 4 years and no one had stepped up and reversed engineered it :(

[sewnie]

Wait, this issue still remains.