Share your listening experience

Introduction

If you would like to share your listening experience with other users, Helium Music Manager can of course assist you with that. Helium Music Manager integrates Last.fm/Audioscrobbler natively into the music replaying so that you can share your listening experiences with other users.

Best of all, no plug-ins are needed for this, the functionality is fully automated and built-in.

For in detail information about Last.fm/Audioscrobbler, click this link.

Helium Music Manager also comes with the possibility to update your personal message in MSN Messenger (version 7.x or higher required), again without the need of any plug-ins. This feature works well with Windows Live Messenger (version 8).

Using Last.fm/Audioscrobbler features

To be able to use the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler features, you will first need to create a user account at www.last.fm.

When this is done, click "Tools | Options"  from the main menu in Helium Music Manager. Then select page "Player & Last.fm".

Enable Last.fm/Audioscrobbler by checking the checkbox "Use Last.fm/Audioscrobbler". After you have performed this step, enter your Last.fm user name and password in the input fields below the previously mentioned checkbox.

Click OK to save your settings. You are now ready to start using Last.fm/Audioscrobbler!

Each time you play a file from the Active Playlist, the information will be sent to Last.fm/Audioscrobbler where it will appear in your statistics.

You can also activate/deactive Last.fm from the Internal Players context menu. Hovering your mouse over the play time in the Internal Player will show the submission statistics and how much time remains before the current song will be submitted (assuming Last.fm support is enabled) otherwise it will indicate that Last.fm support is currently disabled.

Using MSN Messenger Notifications

To enable MSN Messenger notifications, simply click Tools | Options from the main menu in Helium Music Manager. Then select  page Player. Check the checkbox Send Now Playing information to MSN Messenger.

You can also enable Update MSN Messenger Picture with the active album picture to automatically update your MSN Messenger display picture with the picture from the album currently being played.

Click OK to save your settings.

Each time a file is played from the Active Playlist, your personal message in MSN Messenger will be updated with information about the track that is being played, and optionally your display picture.

Tips and Tricks

• Last.fm/Audioscrobbler may reject files with improper tags or tag contents that might look like spam.
  If a track is rejected by Last.fm/Audioscrobbler you will be notified about it from your profile page.

• Artist, Title, Album and song-length will be sent to Last.fm/Audioscrobbler. This also applies to subtrack tagged files.

• Songs will be submitted to Last.fm/Audioscrobbler after either 240 seconds (4 minutes) or when 50 percent of the file has been played, whichever comes first. Helium Music Manager keeps track of the play time even if you skip in the file.

• Songs shorter than 30 seconds will not be submitted.

• The play-counter is now updated in a similar manner, although the time that has to be played before the counter is updated can be set in Options (defaulted to 240 seconds).