The RSS feed by the Audioscrobbler guys (2004-09-05 Music) is broken. So I looked up their contact info on the web and joined #audioscrobbler on irc.phasenet.co.uk, talked to *Russ* and got a copy of his PHP/Smarty thing. I don’t know PHP, I don’t know Smarty, but I looked at his code, looked at some code samples ¹, and got going.
Here’s a version that worked well, except that the $now was later changed by Russ.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:cc="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule">
<channel>
<title>Audioscrobbler Musical Profile: {$user->name|htmlspecialchars}</title>
<link>http://{$webhost}{$user->getURL()}/</link>
<description>{$user->name|htmlspecialchars}'s last played tracks, as recorded by Audioscrobbler.com</description>
<cc:license>http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0</cc:license>
<lastBuildDate>{$now|date_format:"%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z"}</lastBuildDate>
<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs>
<generator>Audioscrobbler RSS 2.0 Generator</generator>
<webMaster>support@audioscrobbler.com</webMaster>
{if $tracks|is_array}
{foreach from=$tracks item=track}
<item>
<link>http://{$webhost}{$track->getURL()}</link>
<description>{$track->getLinkText()|htmlspecialchars}</description>
<pubDate>{$track->lastdate|date_format:"%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z"}</pubDate>
</item>
{/foreach}
{/if}
</channel>
</rss>
Truly, RSS 2.0 is so much simpler than RDF-based RSS 1.0!
#Music