Last.FM/AudioScrobbler - LogScrobbler

[kernelsandirs]

good to hear!

on another fun note; I may try to port the LogScrobbler over to Linux/Mono as well(as long as I can figure out the namespace differences/quirks), just to be more of a geek, and to make my life more difficult

[idumea]

LogScrobbler ftw!!

working brilliantly.

One thing, I'm not sure if it's recognising Unicode characters properly... trying to submit the Sigur Rós track Hoppí­polla turned up "Hoppípolla"... I know using a font that doesn't display them properly can cause problems, but i'm using a font that's worked before for Unis..

[kernelsandirs]

Yeah unfortunately unicode chars are still a problem, I still have to look at the dll that submits the tracks and see if I can put a fix in there.

[obo]

Originally Posted by kernelsandirs

on another fun note; I may try to port the LogScrobbler over to Linux/Mono as well(as long as I can figure out the namespace differences/quirks), just to be more of a geek, and to make my life more difficult

Yup, seems like it will need a bit of tweaking

$ mono LogScrobbler.exe
Mono System.Windows.Forms Assembly [$auto_build_revision$]
KDE colorscheme read

** (LogScrobbler.exe:20826): WARNING **: Missing method System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader::set_DisplayIndex(int) in assembly /usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll, referenced in assembly /tmp/LogScrobbler/LogScrobbler.exe

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at LogScrobbler.Form1..ctor () [0x00000]
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) LogScrobbler.Form1:.ctor ()
  at LogScrobbler.SysTrayIcon..ctor () [0x00000]
  at LogScrobbler.SysTrayIcon.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

[kernelsandirs]

Haha, I didn't say LogScrobble.exe will run on Mono

I started a new tree called MonoScrobbler using GTK#

not sure it will entirely work the way I want it to, but I'm gonna give it a shot.

[obo]

Yup, not enough of windows.forms has been ported.

There is a new QT based uploader as well...

[Landus]

I'm having a problem with the times being correct.

I'm -5 GMT (EST). It's daylights savings time here also.


Here's a small log that I just took to see if I could figure out why the times are being submitted wrong.

#AUDIOSCROBBLER/1.0
#TZ/GMT-5
#CLIENT/Rockbox h300
ORIGA Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 2 rise 2 315 L 1163315969
Ronnie Montrose Mean Game of Love 2 178 S 1163316282
Neuroticfish Surimi All I Say 5 289 S 1163316283
DJ Dean Future Trance, Volume 22 (disc 1) Play It Hard 7 186 S 1163316284
Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity Burning My Soul 5 329 S 1163316284
Gavin DeGraw One Tree Hill I Don't Want to Be 1 216 S 1163316291
Shinedown Us and Them Save Me 3 210 L 1163316292
Red Hot Chili Peppers Get the Funk Out Blood Sugar Sex Magic 5 271 L 1163316504

[Landus]

Forgot to mention. My iRiver is set to my local time, but when logscrobbler reads the scrobbler log, the times that it's going to sumbit are five hours ahead.

I can't find any options to fix this.

[kernelsandirs]

this is true, it shows up in LogScrobbler as UTC currently as last.fm says if no TZ is set to set as UTC, so originally I just had it set to UTC, I clearly need to fix this but it is a known issue, it should submit as UTC so really it should be your normal time when last.fm gets it, but yes it shows up funny in LogScrobbler.

[AceNik]

hey boss jus wanted to ask im still usin the 25/9/06 build as u mentioned once that last fm not workin on the newer builds, well it seems the battery life on the new builds has improved a few folds so i would like to ask u whether the new builds support last fm now please revert back to me bout this thanks a lot dude u rock!!!!!!!!

[idumea]

Originally Posted by AceNik

hey boss jus wanted to ask im still usin the 25/9/06 build as u mentioned once that last fm not workin on the newer builds, well it seems the battery life on the new builds has improved a few folds so i would like to ask u whether the new builds support last fm now please revert back to me bout this thanks a lot dude u rock!!!!!!!!

I can confirm that since 19/10/06 last.fm support in the new builds has been well and truly rock(b0x)ing

[kernelsandirs]

It certainly seems to be working now, but I still find it flaky at times, even when I know the tags are proper, it will even be flaky when scrobbling the same tracks that may have scrobbled previously. sometimes the only way I can kick start it to scrobble is to skip a track and then skip back and it seems to start working.

but for the most part it is working good.

[obo]

There is a patch here that solves an issue with the last file that is played before shutdown, but apart from that I'm not aware of any other issues. Can you describe a way to replicate the problem?

[kernelsandirs]

Right now I am playing the entire album "Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West" if you were to view my "Recent Tracks" on last.fm you can see that pretty much the entire album was played, and logged on Nov 13th. But right now I have already listened to almost the whole album again Nov 15th, and not one of the Listened(L) tracks show up in the log.

Not really a way I can explain to replicate it, I just turn the player on and start playing tracks, I don't know if it may have anything to do with how I go about playing them, I usually have to shut off the player after I listen to a few tracks and someone needs to speak with me, then I just turn it back on and click the pause/play button to restart playback, but still no log entries.


(I just tried skipping back with the skip track button and it is still not logging it is real difficult to say what I think gets it to log or not, usually skipping back and forth fixes it, but right now it doesn't seem to want to log at all) some days are certainly better than others no idea why.

[obo]

Hmm - for some reason I forgot the other issue with it - if you resume a track at start-up, it won't be logged... (I need to dive into the playback code to see if I can fix that one...).

If you need it I've got a debug patch that might shed a bit more light on what's happening.

[kernelsandirs]

sure, but the issue does not only affect the first track after resume ;-(
when I listened to that entire Modest Mouse album today I listened to at least four tracks at a time non-stop but did not get any logged items.

fiddling around skipping back and forth sometimes it works, I was able to get it to start logging again and listened to the entire same album again but got only 4 tracks to log off the entire album.

[audiopile]

Dude I have been waiting for this for a looong time. Thank you for taking the time to figure this out. Now - how do I install this. I am clueless right now. I have run the exe on my PC but how do I get the player to start logging? I am very embarassed asking this question.

[PaulPosition]

Assuming you're running rockbox (duh ) you just have to go to the menu and then general settings->Playback->Last.fm log->On

[kernelsandirs]

yeah you have to be running a version of Rockbox newer than I think October 20th then you enable the Last.fm support as described by PaulPosition. Once you do that you just play songs on the player, it will create a .scrobbler.log file in the root of the drive, then to sync you can run my LogScrobbler App(Make sure you have .NET framework 2.0) and browse to your player once connected and choose the .scrobbler.log file, then you hit go(or some other options first)

Not a stupid question, but if you don't have Rockbox installed then you have to get that on the player before any of this matters.

[AceNik]

hey Mr.Kernel jus wanted to let u know that the log scrobbler stops logging tracks the moment the tag cache starts givin trouble ie 'tag cache not ready' & this fact is true with any build that is used.
I have a H20 too if ud like ill ataach my config file for u to check , dont get me wrong but i love the work uve done thanks!!!!!!!!!

[PaulPosition]

AceNik, unless I am very mistaken, I'd hazard to guess that Kernelsandir won't be able to help much : he programmed the nice little application to retrieve the log from your DAP and sync it to last.fm database, but he's not the one who programmed the tagcache or scrobbler plugin into rockbox. If there's problem with the tagcache chances are there's nothing logged for logscrobbler to parse and upload.

He might however be in contact with people who know more, though, so who knows?

[audiopile]

I would never have found out where to turn it on. Thanks again Tim for making this and Paul for your help!
And of course I have Rbox, life is not the same w/o it!

[xbukylssonx]

realy good stuff, guys, thanx a lot...
another thing is that it doesnt work for me...
i got the whole folder with log scrobbler to my iriver (h120) and when I want to browse the folder, where it is, the scrobbler doesnt find it...

or...

could somebody tell me, please, what exactly shall i do?
im kind of amateur in this sort of stuff.