Include album artist in scrobbles

liftarn commented 5 years ago

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Clementine will send both track artist and album artist to Last.fm

The changelog says

Send album artist to Last.fm with liblastfm >= 1.0.0. but it don't seem to work as expected.

There is #2901 and #4466 but it always send the album artist as track artist so it's not the same.

There is also #4354 that seems to be what I'm looking for, but it's not working in 1.3.1

The API doc at https://www.last.fm/api/show/track.scrobble says there is an optional album artist field.

Scrobble a track with a different track artist and album artist, for instance from a compilation where the artist name is X and the album artist is "Various artists".
When looking in the library on Last.fm I see that the album recorded will be for X, not a Various artists album.

diogocp commented 5 years ago

Last.fm fucked up their site. I don't think there is anything we can do about it.

liftarn commented 5 years ago

It works with scrobbles from for instance Spotify so I don't think this specific problem lies at Last.fm.

diogocp commented 5 years ago

Works for me (Gentoo Linux, Clementine 1.3.1_p20190127, liblastfm 1.1.0_pre20150206).

You can see if it works by clicking the album cover next to a scrobble. It should link to https://www.last.fm/music/{AlbumArtist}/{AlbumTitle}.

AFAIK there was an issue on the Last.fm side and they've apparently since fixed it (probably related to the new scrobbles database).

I haven't tried with Various Artists as the album artist, though. That might be handled differently as a special case.

liftarn commented 5 years ago

Tried it and it don't seem to work in 1.3.1 (latest released version). Might be fixed in nightly build.

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