Last.fm Scrobbler help

[xandermac05]

The short time setting, on the other hand, is fine as HH:mm. Also, you'll need to go through Control Panel -> Region and Language -> Additional Settings -> Date tab, then manually type into the box to change the format (as it's not one of the standard ones on the main drop-down list).

[hatsharpener]

My problem seems to have straightened itself out, and it began working again... Wonder if it is something with my work's firewall.

[dypsis]

I am having problems getting Last.fm to submit anything.
I am using v1.0.2.21

Any ideas?

[Owyn]

Use Tools->Options->Library->Last.fm Service->Show Log File
to open the last.fm log in your default text editor.

Copy and paste the first 15 lines of the log here so we can see details of your problems.

e.g. This is the log from startup of my working last.fm using the latest 1.0.2.22 plugin.

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16/11/2009 18:13:56.579: MediaMonkey v3.2.0
16/11/2009 18:13:56.582: Loading Last.fm Scrobbler
16/11/2009 18:13:56.585: ----------------------------------------
16/11/2009 18:13:56.589: Last.fm Scrobbler v1.0.2.22
16/11/2009 18:13:56.592: ----------------------------------------
16/11/2009 18:14:12.445: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1258413252
16/11/2009 18:14:12.462: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
16/11/2009 18:14:13.188: Last.FM: Handshake OK
16/11/2009 18:14:13.236: Last.FM: Handshake Session ID is 15f9b6ef130c46398476388183ad1aa7
16/11/2009 18:14:13.268: Last.FM: Handshake NowPlaying URL is http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/np_1.2
16/11/2009 18:14:13.303: Last.FM: Handshake Submission URL is http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.2
16/11/2009 18:14:13.323: Last.FM: NowPlaying Song Noah And The Whale - Shape Of My Heart
16/11/2009 18:14:13.632: Last.FM: NowPlaying OK
16/11/2009 18:17:06.084: Last.FM: Submit Started at 1258413426
16/11/2009 18:17:06.088: Last.FM: Session ID 15f9b6ef130c46398476388183ad1aa7

[dypsis]

Hi Owyn.
Thanks for the reply.
I clicked the Clean Cache button, and it seems to be working again.

I have 2 questions.

1. The Last.fm toolbar button lets me Enable, Disable or Cache. What does the Cache option do for me?
2. Where did you get 1.0.2.22?

[nohitter151]

1. It keeps a record of the plays but does not submit them until you change the icon back to green. That can be helpful in certain situations where you want to delay scrobbles due to submitting plays from portable players, etc.

2. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=44258&p=232057&hilit=last+fm+scrobbler+1+0+2+22#p232057

[dypsis]

1. It keeps a record of the plays but does not submit them until you change the icon back to green. That can be helpful in certain situations where you want to delay scrobbles due to submitting plays from portable players, etc.

2. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=44258&p=232057&hilit=last+fm+scrobbler+1+0+2+22#p232057

Hi nohitter151.
I guess you are talking about the cache (amber) button.

Thanks for the info.

[Guest]

Hi you all guys
I'm having this problem since 24th dec 2009 - the latest Last.fm plugin (v1.0.2.22) doesn't allow me to scrobble, because of the error other users reported above: The Bad Sytem Clock Time. I am sure date and time is correct in my computer, I have synced it twice with the Microsoft server. My date zone is GMT+1, and I have checked also that this is correct. I'm using Windows XP and tried changing some options of the regional and language config in control panel, it didn't succeed.
Here I paste the log (notice that the first error is a connection error, that's because I'm not having ADSL connection for some time, and I bought a mobile connection instead, this shouldn't be the problem, because I have scrobbled before with this connection)

27/12/2009 17:12:55.843: MediaMonkey v3.1.1
27/12/2009 17:12:55.843: Loading Last.fm Scrobbler
27/12/2009 17:12:55.843: ----------------------------------------
27/12/2009 17:12:55.843: Last.fm Scrobbler v1.0.2.22
27/12/2009 17:12:55.843: ----------------------------------------
27/12/2009 17:13:09.125: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1261930389
27/12/2009 17:13:09.156: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:13:55.625: Last.FM: Handshake No Connection To Last.FM Handshake failed
27/12/2009 17:13:55.671: Last.FM: NowPlaying Skipping
27/12/2009 17:14:14.203: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1261930454
27/12/2009 17:14:14.234: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:14:16.640: Last.FM: Handshake Bad System Clock Time
27/12/2009 17:14:17.265: Last.FM: NowPlaying Skipping
27/12/2009 17:16:18.609: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1261930578
27/12/2009 17:16:18.828: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:16:21.250: Last.FM: Handshake Bad System Clock Time
27/12/2009 17:16:21.281: Last.FM: NowPlaying Skipping
27/12/2009 17:17:23.218: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1261930643
27/12/2009 17:17:23.390: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:17:25.937: Last.FM: Handshake Bad System Clock Time
27/12/2009 17:17:25.984: Last.FM: NowPlaying Skipping
27/12/2009 17:20:18.718: Last.FM: Submit Started at 1261930819
27/12/2009 17:20:18.750: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:20:18.921: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1261930818
27/12/2009 17:20:21.984: Last.FM: Handshake Bad System Clock Time
27/12/2009 17:20:22.359: Last.FM: Cache add Amber Pacific - Falling Away
27/12/2009 17:20:22.484: Last.FM: Cache track added Amber Pacific - Falling Away
27/12/2009 17:20:22.609: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
27/12/2009 17:20:23.625: Last.FM: Handshake Bad System Clock Time
27/12/2009 17:20:23.656: Last.FM: NowPlaying Skipping

I have to say also that this particular day (24th dec 2009) I made a backup of my most important files in my hard drive, because I was going to install Ubuntu 9.10, but actually I didn't install it until 25th afternoon. I tink it may be a BIOS date/time problem, I don't know...

You can contact me on last.fm (http://www.lastfm.es/user/Mizo_Mizo) or send me an email (mizo0mizo@gmail.com)

Thank you beforehand for your efforts.

[Guest]

Haha forget about my problem, I easily solved it - the date in the BIOS was one day in future, and so there was a conflict. What a stupid mistake, I suppose it happened when creating the partitions for Linux... anyway, thanks you all for helping in this forum, and specially one guy above who said something about the BIOS...
Have a Merry Christmas!

[EloquentGraffiti]

I'm also having this issue. The song I'm currently playing registers just fine on last.fm, but the previously played don't show up in my history. I'm not getting bad clock warnings.

Here is an excerpt of my log (I'm running W7 x64; MM and the last.fm plugin got installed today.)

1/7/2010 00:06:20.260: MediaMonkey v3.2.0
1/7/2010 00:06:20.264: Loading Last.fm Scrobbler
1/7/2010 00:06:20.267: ----------------------------------------
1/7/2010 00:06:20.271: Last.fm Scrobbler v1.0.2.22
1/7/2010 00:06:20.274: ----------------------------------------
1/7/2010 00:06:27.501: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1262819187
1/7/2010 00:06:27.516: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
1/7/2010 00:06:27.886: Last.FM: Handshake OK
1/7/2010 00:06:27.911: Last.FM: Handshake Session ID is 6e8e556b4e9d45d6ac3a0d7e37e6d586
1/7/2010 00:06:27.938: Last.FM: Handshake NowPlaying URL is http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/np_1.2
1/7/2010 00:06:27.960: Last.FM: Handshake Submission URL is http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.2
1/7/2010 00:06:28.013: Last.FM: NowPlaying Song James Madison U. Exit - Fix You
1/7/2010 00:06:28.308: Last.FM: NowPlaying OK
1/7/2010 00:06:30.097: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1262819190
1/7/2010 00:06:30.124: Last.FM: Session ID 6e8e556b4e9d45d6ac3a0d7e37e6d586
1/7/2010 00:06:30.157: Last.FM: NowPlaying Song Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting - All for One, All for Love
1/7/2010 00:06:30.237: Last.FM: NowPlaying OK
1/7/2010 00:09:45.666: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1262819385
1/7/2010 00:09:45.689: Last.FM: Session ID 6e8e556b4e9d45d6ac3a0d7e37e6d586
1/7/2010 00:09:45.775: Last.FM: NowPlaying Song Gary Jules - Falling Awake
1/7/2010 00:09:45.835: Last.FM: NowPlaying OK

[Owyn]

Check Tools->Options->Library->Last.fm Service->Last.fm Service and make sure both options are checked.

[EloquentGraffiti]

Both boxes are checked, yep. The problem persists.

[EloquentGraffiti]

I seem to have fixed it by changing the (short) date settings from d/M to M/d.

[Owyn]

Hmmm. Good catch. This seems to be a W7 specific problem. You are the second one to report date format fix.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41779&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30#p231520

Still on Vista so I can't reproduce the problem, or, the fix.

[TJOHO]

I just encountered a bizarre problem with the native scrobbling service. I use a laptop and 99% of the time I listen to music at work only, so scrobbling is done there.

However, this weekend I took the laptop home and connected it to our home network, and now MM won't scrobble! Obviously, the settings in MM are the same, the OS (WinXP) and version of MM and plugin are the same, so why would it just stop scrobbling?

Other scrobbling is possible, though:

1. I played some tracks on my iPod, connected it to the laptop, and scrobbled them using QTScrobbler just fine.
2. I played some tracks in iTunes on our home iMac, and they scrobbled just fine.

Here is the log file:

2010-01-10 10:54:02.578: MediaMonkey v3.2.0
2010-01-10 10:54:02.875: Loading Last.fm Scrobbler
2010-01-10 10:54:02.921: ----------------------------------------
2010-01-10 10:54:02.921: Last.fm Scrobbler v1.0.2.22
2010-01-10 10:54:02.921: ----------------------------------------
2010-01-10 10:55:15.718: Last.FM: Nowplaying Play Detected at 1263088515
2010-01-10 10:55:15.734: Last.FM: Handshake Session Started
2010-01-10 10:58:57.421: Last.FM: Submit Started at 1263088737

It seems the MM plugin doesn't even connect to Last.fm very well...?!

It will be interesting to see when I get back to the office tomorrow if it will scrobble there or if the error is permanent...!