I am a tech OG and tech OGs come from the OG web which one of the goals was to pay for anything and dwell in the warez and bittorrent sites. Sorry if you are working for the MPAA or other alphabet organization but it is what it is. So naturally I wouldn't use those skimpy streaming sites that love to charge your credit card every month.
This is where the scrobble issue comes. As an OG internet user, I am familiar with the scrobbling my content to the net to see. I was a LastFM user as well as MusicBrainz that collaborate sometimes on pushing my mp3 metatag on the web as well as my Amarok playing list to the web. For people who don't know what Amarok is, is a KDE Plasma jukebox for listening to podcast, and music of course.
As time went by and I stop using LastFM and even the open source version LibreFM, scrobbling sort of went away from my daily routines. However this scrobbling 2.0 come with a wider range of content not limited to podcasting and music, but into Games, Movies, Anime and PDF of some sort. Here is where the issue lies, all these services are meant for web users and streaming users, people that watch content online. As an OG, most of my content is offline and I use tools that live on my Arch Linux computer.
So here is my issue, how do I scrobble my anime catalog, or my movie and TV shows online from my desktop. Looking around I found a script for mpv (my player) to scrobble the content. But I am not sure how it can work with Hive scrobble.life, and other tools that focus on manga and PDF would be on Okular or apps such as Calibre.
So here lies the challenge, how to get this data up to the Hive Scrobbler server. I think this shouldn't be as hard, as we could vibecode a script that could push this metadata to the server. Whenever is done by VLC or MPV or any thirdparty Linux application. After all is all open source. Maybe @acidyo could put some bounties to get them done. Eventually have the desktop base and maybe even mobile in the future, but get that done to the server.
Wow friend I don't know what you're talking about but it sounds interesting, I hope to see a review of a movie that you recommend, I'll wait for it
I am talking about the movies I watch on VLC and they dont get scrobble on my logbook.
I cant see this on my TV Series category:
I'm understanding, it's like a record, I understand now
Yeah scrobbling is uploading your media consumption.
While we'd love to be able to scrobble "offline" content, it'll require our own software to do so which is not something we aim to focus on at this point in time as there's a lot of security things to think of in that regard and I haven't even checked if there's any opensource programs we could fork to make use of as we've done with web scrobbler and trakt scrobbler.
There's some potential solutions of a bridge but maybe best to wait when we have more users before we seriously consider them. For now you can manually input movies, tvshows, anime etc, although some may be hard to find if the free to use API's aren't allowing for it.
You don't need to develop the whole software, there are these things called plugins. Which could do the job without having to code the whole thing.
There are also this other things called scripts that will do the same job.
Also I am still not sure how are you tracking manga and ebooks? Also which platform is supported and which aren't. For example I have some audiobooks on Google Books, as well as PDF on my Google Books profile, do they get tracked? What about manga?
Used to read online on MangaFreak.
