So, dear readers, I received some nice emails and comments from those you have used Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler, along with having a nice email conversation with Wil Sinclair from Zend.

He still wants to "rip things up and start over", but has decided on a slightly different route - mapping the older function calls to the new ones via a __call catch and including a message stating that the older function call would be deprecated.

It finally made it! After some major reworking of the unit tests (at 86% coverage, with 3 more tests to come after the freeze is up) and Derek busting his butt to get the documentation done, Darby Fenton emailed me to tell me that he's moved our component for connecting to the web services being offered by Audioscrobbler (and that powers Last.fm out of the incubator and into the core.

You can get more information on what the component can do and how to use it from its page over on the Zend Framework wiki.