Erratic scrobbling - Githubissues

RobFog commented 11 years ago

Mac OS X 10.8.2
iTunes 11.0.1
Last.fm 2.1.33
German locale

I recently updated to the newer app and I have been forced to revert to the ancient version because the new one fails pretty badly at its number one feature: scrobbling.

I've set Last.fm.app to only scrobble when a track has been played in its entirety (100%). The outcome is pretty erratic:

most tracks aren't scrobbled at all
some are scrobbled despite the fact I've only played them for a few seconds
some don't get properly reported - correct track name, wrong artist name (see screenshot, the song is "Dura" by Ratatat, not The Hives)

I've been unable to find any recurring pattern in the way the app scrobbles/misbehaves. Some thoughts:

I like to switch tracks in iTunes using the default hotkeys on a Mac keyboard, might that be part of the problem?
I have some music videos in iTunes.
Obviously, in iTunes tracks don't need to be played to their full extent to be recorded as "played", iTunes only needs to "hit" the end of a song but I don't think this fact accounts for many of the differences you can see between the songs iTunes has recorded as played and the songs scrobbled by the app.

I'm attaching a screenshot of iTunes with tracks sorted by "last played" (red boxes indicate tracks which haven't been scrobbled) and a screenshot from my online Last.fm profile for comparison - "erratic" is the word. The scrobbles are from iTunes unless otherwise specified. Last fm scrobbled tracks iTunes tracks sorted by last played

Please let me know if there's more information I can contribute.

eartle commented 11 years ago

Hello. Thanks for pointing this out. I expect this is all down to having the scrobble point set to 100%. Unfortunately as I don't set it to that value myself it doesn't really get tested by anyone 'in house'. I'll have a look into this and make sure we're doing the right thing. I suspect there is a timing issue and we're accidentally scrobbling the next track that gets skipped to instead of the previous one, or something like that.

RobFog commented 11 years ago

Thanks a lot for looking into this. :) Let me know if I can give more information.

RobFog commented 11 years ago

I suppose https://github.com/lastfm/lastfm-desktop/commit/bfcae92faee395a0e1a6203e55b3f53c0ceaef0c (and perhaps the following commit: https://github.com/lastfm/lastfm-desktop/commit/a24abc23104f92a92aa3a0da3a677758b267b38e) addresses this issue? :)

eartle commented 11 years ago

Ah, yes. This is out as beta in version 2.1.34. Sorry, I forgot to ask you to check if it's fixed all your issues. Should be doing a full release very soon.

RobFog commented 11 years ago

Not to worry, I would give a new release a try.

RobFog commented 11 years ago

Good job. 2.1.35 seems to work well. :)

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Erratic scrobbling #23