last.fm for the iPhone
Although we are still a couple months away from an offical SDK for the Apple iPhone and iTouch, there is already an active 3rd party application development community creating and distributing native apps for the iPhone. One of the first apps that I've seen that brings Music 2.0 functionality to the iPhone is the Mobile Scrobbler. The Mobile Scrobbler is a last.fm audioscrobbler for the iPhone. When you listen to music on your iPhone or iPod touch, the mobile scrobbler sends the artist and track info to last.fm. Now, this is clearly for the very impatient, since you can use the official last.fm audioscrobbler to scrobble your tunes the next time you put your iPhone in the dock - the mobile scrobbler merely gets your tracks scrobbled a little faster. Still, this is a good sign about what capabilities we can expect 3rd party apps to have ... clearly 3rd party apps can discover info about the currently playing song, like the Mobile Scrobbler, this will open the door to all sorts of interesting social music apps - Snapp Radio or SleeveNotez on the iPhone would be really fun indeed.
Also keep your eye on Sam Steele, as of today, he has last.fm radio streams playing on the iPhone through the Mobile Scrobber. Pretty soon we'll have the full last.fm experience in our pocket!
(via ghacks.net).
It's not only for the impatient since its functionality stretches further: At the moment you listen to a track while on the move, MobileScrobbler shows the Artist info as is stored on LastFM.
Posted by grapgrap on December 14, 2007 at 04:51 AM EST #