Last.FM | Scrobbler support?

[Arite]

Well try scrobbling with a normal MP3 file to see if that works, then try an audio CD.

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Sorry a last question: does scrobbling refer only to mp3s? Doesn't it read when I listen to a CD or other formats?

As there is NO libcddb support on windows, I doubt that for a CD it will work on windows.

Else, everything is yes.

[arkanoiz]

Well try scrobbling with a normal MP3 file to see if that works, then try an audio CD.

Arite.

Yeah the with mp3s it works perfectly. With other formats didn't try yet. With audio CDs doesn't work. But I found it strange because the names of album and songs are there on VLC playlist when I play it.

@ j-b I don't know what is libcddb. Is it is a indicization tool for bringing the CD names?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well try scrobbling with a normal MP3 file to see if that works, then try an audio CD.

Arite.

Yeah the with mp3s it works perfectly. With other formats didn't try yet. With audio CDs doesn't work. But I found it strange because the names of album and songs are there on VLC playlist when I play it.

@ j-b I don't know what is libcddb. Is it is a indicization tool for bringing the CD names?

Yes. Just Google it.

[MacL3an]

Im using the nighly builds of VLC on Mac OS X (great program btw! can't stand Itunes).

The submissions to Last.fm used to work fine, but when I look now it seems like nothing has been submitted in the last 12 days and I can't remember which version of vlc I had at the time.

Does any one know which is the latest mac version where the last.fm support works?

[xthedestroyer]

I'm sorry if I can't get too technical, but I love this player and I'd like to use it to scrobbel to Last F.M. I'm using Windows Vista, I have the latest build, 0.9.2, and yes, I have entered my Last F.M. user name and password in the option tab in VLC, but music refuses to even show up in my Last F.M. profile when played through VLC. Also, forgot to mention that yes, I saved the info. after I typed in the user name and password. Still no go. What am I doing wrong? Please help. Thank you kindly.

[Arite]

Did you restart VLC afterwards? When playing a properly tagged audio file (>30 seconds) go to "Tools >> Messages..." and click on the "Modules tree" tabs. interface "audioscrobbler" should be in the list.

Also if you click on the "Messages" tab, and raise the verbosity to "2" then when the track is finished you should be able to see the audioscrobbler submission log.

Arite.

[p-junk]

Uh, every track is being submitted twice. I was using 0.9.3, but I just updated to 0.9.4 and the issue is still occurring. OSX 10.4.11

Help?

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audioscrobbler debug: Submission successful! audioscrobbler debug: Submission successful!

[arkanoiz]

So isn't any chance to see my audio CD playlist scrobbled too on Windows? Do you know another application that can do it? So I can use that only for CDs and VLC for all the rest.
Thanks

[VLC_help]

I am guessing all cddb/gracenote enabled programs can sniff enough information if they are commercial CDs. Like Winamp.

[arkanoiz]

I am guessing all cddb/gracenote enabled programs can sniff enough information if they are commercial CDs. Like Winamp.

I HATE Winamp #_#
thanks though

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC has CDDB, but not on Windows.

[arkanoiz]

[MacL3an]

Uh, every track is being submitted twice. I was using 0.9.3, but I just updated to 0.9.4 and the issue is still occurring. OSX 10.4.11

Help?

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audioscrobbler debug: Submission successful! audioscrobbler debug: Submission successful!

Same problem here! This is the info I found in about:
Version 0.9.0 Grishenko (Intel)
Compiled by buildbot, based on Git commit 8501f0553a

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This works correctly on WIndows... Weird...

Fill a bug with details messages.

[conortodd]

I'm running 0.9.5 Grishenko (Intel build) under OSX 10.5 on dual quad Xeon with a bumload of RAM. I see only one audioscrobbler log line in the messages output (with log-level=3): 'audioscrobbler: Meta data registered'. I'm playing a long mp3 (~97min), and even after 8 minutes I still don't see anything being sent to last.fm.

What's up?

[Arite]

VLC should submit to Last.fm when the song ends/is stopped, like an Audioscrobbler 1.2 protocol compliant scrobbler would (only thing that is missing is the "Now playing" part AFAIK). The older 1.1 protocol just submitted, for a song >30 seconds, once it could be - either after 50% of the song or 4 mins in/4 mins of playback time (whichever came first).

Arite.

[pigsonthewing]

VLC has CDDB, but not on Windows.

Is that still the case? Why is that? Is there an alternative, or a plan to change that?

I've just started to use VLC as my primary CD player on a WinXP machine, and lack of such a service is a major blocker, for me.

[VLC_help]

Is that still the case? Why is that? Is there an alternative, or a plan to change that?

I built nightlies yesterday and no CDDB support. I think it is a compilation issue because I can't figure out any other reason why wouldn't it work. And AFAIK nobody is working on this (number of full time Windows devs is zero).

[fkuehne]

number of full time Windows devs is zero

and so is the number of part-time devs..

[Rizzelet]

Does anyone know at which point the VLC scrobbler submits your track to Last.fm?

In the scrobbler application that goes along with WMP and WinAmp you have the choice at what percentage duration the song will be scrobbled. It'd be cool to have that same option built into the VLC player. Obviously you can't change it at the moment but does anyone know what the default duration is; whether it's a percentage or certain amount of time? I attempted to test it out myself, but only was able to conclude that it scrobbles the song before the track is completely finished.

Thanks

[Arite]

Since VLC complies with the Audioscrobbler 1.2 protocol (as should all other scrobblers), it will submit a track (which is >30 seconds and has artist and title metadata) after either 50% has been played, or after 4 mins in (whichever comes first).

The actual submission is done when the track finishes/is stopped though AFAIK.

The source code (at line 590):
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... =HEAD#l590

Arite.