21
Jul
2011

Traktor Scrobbler goes 1.0 on Windows and Mac OS X

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Meine SoftwareI’ve been watering the mouths of many Traktor users for months by teasing the new version of my Traktor Scrobbler. Here it is finally!

It’s been completely rewritten for the third time. There is now a native version for Mac OS X -user. I had to finish it on a virtual machine since my MacBook died on me. That was very time-consuming. I’d rejoice a small donation so I can buy a new one (and continue developing awesome sauce). Alternatively you can also invite me to a beer in real life to kill the pain caused by that unspeakable slow development environment.

 

Download

 

Traktor Scrobbler (Windows) 1.0 (5.87 MB) - 4313 hits

 

Traktor Scrobbler (OSX) 1.0 (8.86 MB) - 1431 hits

 

 

Usage instructions

You can find those in the main article.

New features in detail:

Native Mac OS X-version

The old Traktor Scrobbler was also useable in OS X but required a lot of fiddling. This new version has been developed by using the plattform independant framework Qt. That also means that .NET isn’t required on Windows anymore. The new Scrobbler comes packaged with all required libraries. That’s also the reason why the program is much bigger now. I tried to keep the libraries small though. Many thanks go to Jens Bache-Wiig’s QML desktop components and the relentless help of the Qt Ambassador Volker.

Playlists are saved

Traktor Scrobbler creates a directory called ‘playlists’ where it saved the played songs of every session if you don’t disable this option.

Nicecast Support

This one is probably the most useful new feature. Many of the OS X user probably stream using Nicecast. While Nicecast is a great tool it can’t read artist or title of a song. The new Traktor Scrobbler can easily provide this data for Nicecast.

no PIN required anymore for Twitter-login

The process of granting Traktor Scrobbler access to your Twitter-account doesn’t require you anymore to write down a 7-digit PIN.

Send Twitter-messages from Traktor Scrobbler

You can now also send regular Tweets from Traktor Scrobbler. This may be helpful if you want to give some shouts to your followers while spinning.

Support for Unicode-characters in artist-name and title

Unicode-characters like German umlauts or  other languages will now be interpreted correctly.

customizable port

Traktor Scrobbler connects to Traktor through a network protocol. If the default-port 8008 is already in use by another application, you can adjust the value in the settings-file TraktionScrobbler.ini

copy current track to clipboard

A video-jockey wanted to use the current track’s title in his video performances. The easiest way for him to get this data was through the system’s clipboard. Therefore this feature has been implemented.

What is missing?

Although this was possible in the old version, you can’t attach yourself to a running icecast-stream to catch its metadata. I will fix this in the next version.

There is a Last.fm-tab now (so I don’t have to take the screenshots twice) but the Traktor Scrobbler still can’t ‘scrobble’. That’s the #1 priority for now and will be possible starting from the next version which I’ll hopefully complete soon.

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  • http://twitter.com/traktortips Traktor Tips

    Great work with this scrobbler – I’ve thrown something together on my site for you….

  • http://twitter.com/DJ_Lena DJ Lena

    I still cannot sign in. I am using Boot Camp on my Mac because I need to use a Windows program when I DJ. The Mac version of Scrobbler works fine when I’m using the OSX side, but the Windows version does nothing when signing on. I have tried different browsers. I’ve tried revoking access to force another request. Any ideas?

    • DJ Lena

      just an FYI…I copied the config file from another installation and was able to make it work.

  • Stephen Wayne

    Brilliant! Can’t wait to try this out!

  • Guest

    Brillaint. Can’t wait to try this out!

  • Mark

    Please it has been over a year already yet you keep on saying it is to be implemented (soon). 

  • Hylke Kuyper

    Hello, this is great. Just curious, how’s the last.fm support progress? would love to use that!

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      sorry that it takes so long. It’s coming soon I promise.

  • http://twitter.com/SimonMarincic Simon the Sniache

    All these updates are great and all, but as Philunity said, i need it to be able to catch the metadata from my icecast stream, and as ive lost my version of 0.4, is there anyway you could link me to a download? 

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Just wait for the next version, please!

  • Djtorja

    Hello everybody! I’m trying login in twitter but when I click above “Loging to Twitter”, the program show me a error that says “Error: ¬”
    Why happen this? Anybody can help me please?

    • Djtorja

      Hi again. I have solved my problem already. My web browser by default was Firefox and needs to be Internet Explorer. Otherwise, it wont work. Regards

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Thanks for mentioning it. It should work with all browsers so this seems to be a bug. Which operating system are you on?

    • Alex

      I’m getting the same issue. Have tried changing default browser to IE but no joy. 

      I’m on Windose7 64bit. Any ideas very welcome =]

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Which other browser did you try?

    • Alex

      my default was chrome but i tried changing that to firefox and IE(64bit)…

      erm…. i just tried it again and it JustWorked – I’m now authorised!

      gremlins…

      Thanks for your reply. =]

    • Alex

      The only thing I can think of that was different is that I didn’t have Traktor open when I authorised my Twitter account… If anyone else has this problem it might be worth trying that.

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Thanks for your feedback Alex.
      The gremlin in this case is me.
      I will check what could cause this behaviour.

    • Alex

      no problem. It’s a nice piece of software. The one addition that would be really good in my opinion would be to customise the tweets a bit more, for example, to add other fields, like the Label so you could have the tweets come out like:
      is playing: %Artist – %Track (%Label)

      Just an idea… =]

  • Mario Poggioli

    I haven’t understood what’s the use of this software….

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Hello Mario,

      It is likely that you don’t need it in this case.
      It gives you the ability to send your current songs to Twitter, Last.fm (soon) and a lot of other things. Soon it might even be possible to upload your livesets to mixcloud including correctly timed tracklist.

      Normally you wouldn’t have access to this kind of data that easily.

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  • Philunity

    Apologies if i am missing the obvious, But, what use is this if I cannot connect it to my icecast server.

    Basically I rent a radio host server that provide me with an ip and port.

    How do I use this tool in conjunction?
     

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      You can’t right now. I ran into a problem and didn’t have time to fix it.

      It will be fixed in the next version comming soon.

  • Dii

    Ne Spende fürn Mac? Das stößt bei mir auf taube Ohren, als Apple Verweigerer..aber für deine kompetente Unterstützung gerne auf ein Trost-Bier. :)

    • http://www.ali.dj Hedgehog

      Na dann nehme ich das.

      Habe mich lange Zeit dagegen gewehrt, weil ich ähnlich zu Apple-Produkten stehe wie du. Leider musste ich einsehen, dass man wenn man damit auflegen will doch ein wenig ruhiger schlafen kann als mit einem Windows-PC. Besonders dann wenn man komplizierte Setups benutzt.