Audioscrobbler compatibility

anonymous 2009-08-17T02:06:31Z

Hello! I found Synergy after iScrobbler started going a little strange, and I do very much love the easy control functions. My only question is: does Synergy support multiple track scrobbling? By which I mean, if I listen to a track on repeat, should it scrobble all the plays? I do this quite often and I would like my last.fm page to reflect it. iScrobbler used to do it, but now seems to have stopped, which is why I went looking for another application.

Greg Hurrell 2009-08-17T07:49:48Z

(Going from memory of the Audioscrobbler protocol...) I think that according to the protocol it certainly should submit a track multiple times if it is played multiple times, and from my memory of how this is implemented in the Synergy code that's what I would expect to happen.

I'm going to do some tests and see if I can get it to submit multiple times.

So there are really three possibilities here:

The protocol doesn't allow repeated submissions and so last.fm is discarding the repeats

The protocol allows it but a bug in Synergy is stopping it from happening

The protocol allows it but a bug in the last.fm code is stopping it from happening

I doubt the last.fm code is at fault, so it's probably between options 1 and 2...

Greg Hurrell 2009-08-17T08:01:28Z

Ok, looks like it was option two... Here's a sample of log output:

17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received notification from iTunes 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received notification of playing status 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Track information: {
    WOAudioscrobblerAlbum = "Por la boca vive el pez";
    WOAudioscrobblerArtist = "Fito y Fitipaldis";
    WOAudioscrobblerLength = 134;
    WOAudioscrobblerTrack = "214 sullivan street";
} 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: This track appears to be a new submission 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Cancelling previously existing submission timer, if any 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Setting up new submission timer (67 seconds) 
17/8/2009 13:56:33 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Setting up new submission timer (67 seconds) 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Submission timer fired; will double-check that current track position matches expected value 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Position matches, will submit to Audioscrobbler 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Adding song to submission queue; song information: {
    WOAlbum = "Por la boca vive el pez";
    WOArtist = "Fito y Fitipaldis";
    WODate = "2009-08-17 11:57:40";
    WOLength = 134;
    WOMBID = "";
    WOTrack = "214 sullivan street";
} 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Enqueuing object: {
    WOAlbum = "Por la boca vive el pez";
    WOArtist = "Fito y Fitipaldis";
    WODate = "2009-08-17 11:57:40";
    WOLength = 134;
    WOMBID = "";
    WOTrack = "214 sullivan street";
} 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Number of items currently on the queue: 1 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Queue was empty: processing item 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Will handle next item on the queue after delay (Audioscrobbler specified delay in seconds: 1) 
17/8/2009 13:57:40 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Will handle next item on the queue after delay (Audioscrobbler specified delay in seconds: 1) 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Will proceed with submission 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Will perform submission using URL: http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.1 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Submission as URL-encoded string is: u=wcolaiuta...
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Submission as data is: <753d7763 ... 413430> 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Starting connection attempt 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Waiting for submission response 
17/8/2009 13:57:41 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Waiting for submission response 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Connection to Audioscrobbler did finish loading (response received) 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received an INTERVAL directive 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Storing interval value: 1 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Processing submission response 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received OK response 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Dequeueing first object 
17/8/2009 13:57:47 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Will handle next item on the queue after delay (Audioscrobbler specified delay in seconds: 1) 
17/8/2009 13:57:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Queue is empty, not proceeding 
17/8/2009 13:57:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Queue is empty, not proceeding 
17/8/2009 13:57:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Queue is empty, not proceeding 
17/8/2009 13:58:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received notification from iTunes 
17/8/2009 13:58:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Received notification of playing status 
17/8/2009 13:58:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: Track information: {
    WOAudioscrobblerAlbum = "Por la boca vive el pez";
    WOAudioscrobblerArtist = "Fito y Fitipaldis";
    WOAudioscrobblerLength = 134;
    WOAudioscrobblerTrack = "214 sullivan street";
} 
17/8/2009 13:58:48 Synergy[209] Audioscrobbler: This track was previously submitted for consideration but no paused timer found; doing nothing

So as that last line clearly shows, it submits the first time but will disregard subsequent plays. Will open a ticket in the issue tracker for this one.

Greg Hurrell 2009-08-17T08:03:11Z

Ok, the ticket is ticket #1365. Please continue any further discussion on the topic there.

Audioscrobbler compatibility

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