new last.fm beta site rejecting my mpdas login

[pcwalden]

A day or two ago I was forced to the new last.fm beta site and my mpdas scrobbling stopped working.

I have not changed my .mpdasrc. Are they using something other than an MD5 hashed password now? I also noticed I had to use my email address to login to last.fm, not my original last.fm user name. I tried switching to my email address in the mpdasrc, but that did not work either.

$ /usr/local/bin/mpdas (15:30:12) [INFO] Config file (/usr/local/etc/mpdasrc) does not exist or is not readable. (15:30:12) [INFO] Connected to MPD. (15:30:16) [ERROR] Code: 4 (15:30:16) [ERROR] Authentification failed. Please check your login data. (15:30:16) [INFO] Closing mpdas.

Anyone has issues with the new site?

[ghost]

I have the same problem:

~ ❯❯❯ mpdas                                                                                   
(19:02:42) [ERROR] You are not root. Not changing user ..                             
(19:02:42) [INFO] Connected to MPD.                                                              
(19:02:46) [ERROR] Code: 4                                                                      
(19:02:46) [ERROR] Authentication failed. Please check your login data.                         
(19:02:46) [INFO] Closing mpdas.

[mkody]

They're doing some migrations, so it's down for... some days?

[hrkfdn]

Yeah, it seems to be due to the migration. I can't scrobble from other clients, either.

[hrkfdn]

http://status.last.fm/ seems to confirm this.

[hrkfdn]

Are you still having problems?

[ghost]

still

[hrkfdn]

Okay thanks, I'll take a look at it later.

[pcwalden]

My account is now scrobbling correctly

[ghost]

@pcwalden - you rehashed passwd again or just do nothing?

[pcwalden]

I did nothing, it just started working again.

[hrkfdn]

I can not confirm this problem, either. Can you please double check your configuration?

[noinia]

I'm having the same issues. mpdas gives me:

(15:41:57) [ERROR] Code: 4
(15:41:57) [ERROR] Authentication failed. Please check your login data.

as above. Scrobbling from herrie works fine though, with the same credentials. Maybe it depends on the exact server one is authenticating to?

[ghost]

ill check my configuration :) i rehashed psswd again, with this command:

echo -n "psswd" | md5sum

still not working

[mkody]

Doesn't work for me neither. Also, when using Scrobb from my phone, it doesn't scrobble directly. Maybe Last.FM still has issues with scrobbling?

[hrkfdn]

Since the migration isn't complete yet, I'd blame it on that. The protocol hasn't changed, mpdas worked before and it still works for some people. I don't think mpdas is the issue here..

[pcwalden]

Still working for me.

[agjacome]

My last.fm username has uppercase letters. If I use it as is in mpdas config the login fails as described in the issue (since the beta site launched), but if I put it all lowercased, mpdas can log in successfully. Can anyone else of the people having login problems confirm that this uppercase/lowercase nonsense is the cause?

Anyway, it looks that this is not exactly a mpdas issue, since authentication is rejected directly by the Last.fm API. I don't know where to look to see if this is a documented change or if it should be reported to them.

[noinia]

Jep, after changing the upercase letters in my username to lowercase ones in mpdasrc I am able to authenticate and scrobble.

[hrkfdn]

Glad to hear that! I will merge the patch submitted by agjacome. Thanks everyone!

[clasick]

Just a heads up, the bug is still present in mpdas 0.4.3-1.

The fix is the same as @agjacome mentioned.

[hrkfdn]

Mhh, that's a little odd. The fix by @agjacome should be merged since 0.4.0..