19 Jul 2009

Zenses

Zenses is an open source application scrobble tracks from MTP compatible devices (Microsoft Zune, Creative Zen, SanDisk Sansa etc..) to last.fm. Scans through your device to find played tracks to scrobble to last.fm, Zenses will automatically create a timestamp (as MTP devices do not store this information) for each track so last.fm wont reject scrobbles.

Zenses2 is now in open beta, see the beta page for more information and download links, if you have any issues visit our new forum.

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zenses2 beta - unscrobbled tracks

Device Compatibility

As the Windows version of Zenses uses Windows Media Device Manager 11 SDK, theoretically any device that supports reading track data will work as long as the SDK has support. Zenses has been written purely for MTP devices but it might work with other devices that Windows Media Device Manager 11 SDK supports such as Mass Storage Class (MSC), RAPI. However the storage system used must support storing the played count on each track.

Songbird have a nice chart that lists compatible, since Zenses uses the same Windows Media SDK its safe to assume listed devices will work. You can find it over at there table.

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License

Zenses and Zenses2 is released under the MIT license, which is defined as;

Copyright © 2009 Adam Livesley

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