Last.fm AAC and Apple Lossless support

Chiggyman · Post by **Chiggyman** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:21 pm

At the moment im using the winamp plugin with the latest last.fm release, it works fine with all my MP3 and FLAC songs, but quite a lot of my songs are in AAC and Apple Lossless.
When i play these the last.fm client reports the song as "being too short" and therefore won't scrobble it, any chance of a fix?

Post by **Peke** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:24 pm

MM Version and what Time MM shows for those tracks?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:34 pm

Uisg MM3.0 alpha 7
And mediamonkey reads the time correctly it just doesnt seem to get to last.fm properly.

G0lluM · Post by **G0lluM** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:57 pm

I can confirm that this happens with my MM3 A7/last.fm installation as well. I suspect that the problem is related to the last.fm plugin itself, rather than MM3 A7 because the information is correctly displayed in MM3. Of course, I could be wrong here.

Nevertheless, I have found that if I press the back button in the MM3 player, the track will start over and the last.fm plugin will correctly load the tag info to scrobble properly.

Also, the problem seems -- at least to me -- to be completely random and it is therefore difficult to reproduce the error. What I mean is that certain specific .m4a files do not cause this to happen each time. The only common denominator that I can see is the file format itself. In my experience, this has never happened when playing back .ogg, .flac, or .mp3 files.

Post by **Peke** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:26 pm

Could you do this:
Copy one m4a (or any other format) song that even once didn't show time correctly on Last.FM to two folders and then put only those two in Now playing letting MM repeat playlist. It should be noticeable in Last.FM plugin LOG if problem happened and then send us that file for testing just to be sure we can reproduce and test problem.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:20 pm

Cant seem to fnid the log file from the last.fm plugin
From my experience though its very easy to replicate, literally any .m4a file will do it, whether its AAC or Apple Lossless.
Im runnig it on Vista at the moment so im not sure if the problem extends to XP

Post by **Peke** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:42 am

I can't reproduce. What version of Last.FM plugin you use?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:05 pm

2.0.30.
Bundled with the latest last.fm client

Post by **Peke** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:14 pm

Try to use old Winamp Scrobbler 1.1.10 and report back.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:11 pm

The older plugin worked fine, I had to rename it as gen_audio... because otherwise it wouldnt load and I couldnt access the settings.
By renaming it gen_ it loaded under general plugins.

Maybe this should be stickied for people who have a similar problem, with a link to the earlier plugin off the last.fm site?

Thanks for the help

Post by **Peke** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:35 pm

No problem, there was several reports that new Last.FM Player/Plugin have problems and is unstable especially with Unicode.

Thats why most of Us use Old Scrobbler plugin and last.Fm player 1.1.4.