Please properly implement the Last.fm Scrobbling API! Here: https://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling
For start, tracks should be scrobbled only if they've been played for 50% of their duration or for 4 minutes, whichever sooner. Currently, Deezer scrobbles them regardless (and only after the next song has started).
Second, please also make Deezer send the "Now Playing" notification immediately when the track starts.
Implementation of any other aspects of the API are appreciated as well. Thanks!
-Renne
Scrobble tracks properly to/Improvements to Last.fm integration
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Also not trying to nitpick, but I think last.fm scrobbles after 60% of the song played.
No, it's either at 50% of the track length or after 4 minutes for a long track of more than 8 minutes. By the way, the available Web Scrobbler browser extension I mentioned elsewhere does this as well.
Last but not least@Luka.Urbac is right, there still seems to be a problem with scrobbling artist, album and track names containing the ampersand symbol which gets left out and automatically creates a wrong related page on Last.fm this way. Songs containing a plus sign are not scrobbled at all, e.g. everything by Florence + the Machine.
See also the official Last.fm FAQ about Deezer Scrobbling on the Last.fm support forum.
Really, Very frustrating. Reported 4 years ago (through mail), still no improvements.
In the meantime you can use the external browser extension Web Scrobbler which does not have this problem. It is available for Chrome, Opera and Firefox, too.
By the way, Anja, there is another problem with the internal Deezer scrobbling which dismisses added info in brackets for track names like (Remix). On the first look some Last.fm users might even prefer that behaviour, because they don't like the typical Spotify additions like "Remastered..." etc., but it gets problematic if you check e.g. the Deluxe Edition of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and how it is scrobbled to Last.fm: all additions in brackets are gone, so you cannot distinguish between the different remixes of the same song anymore.
By the way, Anja, there is another problem with the internal Deezer scrobbling which dismisses added info in brackets for track names like (Remix). On the first look some Last.fm users might even prefer that behaviour, because they don't like the typical Spotify additions like "Remastered..." etc., but it gets problematic if you check e.g. the Deluxe Edition of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and how it is scrobbled to Last.fm: all additions in brackets are gone, so you cannot distinguish between the different remixes of the same song anymore.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! 🙂 I assume it's related to the one with the special characters. I will pass this feedback on as well 🙂
We might be able to forward this to our developers and solve pretty quickly as it is not an entirely new feature, I will let you know.
More votes would help too 😉
This makes it almost completely worthless to scrobble artists with &'s in their name as they will be registered as completely different artists.
It seems like an easy fix (although i'm not sure obviously), but it would be a very welcome fix to a very annoying problem.
https://en.deezercommunity.com/troubleshooting-and-tips-4/scrobbling-4990
Interestingly the forum URL of it also does not show the ampersand.
The thread Scrobbling "&" mas moved here too, thanks for the head up
https://www.last.fm/api/show/track.updateNowPlaying is pretty straight forward to implement and opens up lots of possibilities for integrations.
I'm particularly interested in seeing this added to the desktop player.
I've done some work with the last.fm api on the past so if I can help out at all get in contact.
- Dan
So in that regard, technically, instead of a scrobble after the song Deezer could scrobble the song instantly but apply options that work as a "delay", both in seconds and percentage. And chosen is the one that happens earlier for each song.
I already got this exact thing on my phone with the Pano Scrobbler App, but I wouldn't want to resort to third party solutions on every single platform.
It seems to be very popular, so we have a chance of getting this done, but would be great if we could figure out how the scrobble should actually behave as there are different opinions 😉
It might be worth checking if this is the Last.fm corrections API kicking in - there is some work done to clean top track names. There's an option on your settings page to toggle this behaviour on and off : https://www.last.fm/settings/website
It happens that there is a good song, but I don't want to listen to it now, but then I can find the history