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Renne
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Renne
Rising Star
November 25, 2017
Not for now

Scrobble tracks properly to/Improvements to Last.fm integration

  • November 25, 2017
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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

      101 replies

      One Hit Wonder
      droppingACID
      One Hit Wonder
      November 26, 2017
      Completely agree, proper last.fm tracking is nessesary. Also not trying to nitpick, but I think last.fm scrobbles after 60% of the song played.
        Roadie
        toxxsin
        Roadie
        November 28, 2017
        The fun thing is that the application "simple last.fm scrobbler" sees the deezer app in the list of players on my phone. It is not scrobbles anyway though
        Rising Star
        Luka.Urbac
        Rising Star
        December 2, 2017
        Agreed. And for some reason the symbol "&" does not scrobble in certain artists' names and in song and album titles. Very frustrating.
          bluezzbastardzz
          Superuser
          bluezzbastardzz
          Superuser
          December 12, 2017

          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.

           

          ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
            One Hit Wonder
            Buck Sooz
            One Hit Wonder
            January 7, 2018
            There is a problem with scrobblin titles with & in, for years. I wrote to you 4y ago and 2 months ago again but no change. They (last.fm) claim issue is on your side. Any chance to get this fixed?
              One Hit Wonder
              Buck Sooz
              One Hit Wonder
              January 7, 2018
              Agreed. And for some reason the symbol "&" does not scrobble in certain artists' names and in song and album titles. Very frustrating.
              Really, Very frustrating. Reported 4 years ago (through mail), still no improvements.
                Anja
                Deezer Staff
                Anja
                Deezer Staff
                January 8, 2018
                Hi there, we know that this isn't working as intended but as for now there is no solution we can provide. We haven't given up but I can't tell you exactly if and when this can be fixed! But I will update you as soon as I have an update 🙂
                  kristopherfpfpf
                  Rising Star
                  kristopherfpfpf
                  Rising Star
                  January 31, 2018
                  Great suggestion! I would use an external scrobbler like simple last.fm scrobbler but then I wouldn't be able to log desktop listens. The thing that really bugs me is that deezer even scrobbles skips. Quite annoying.
                    bluezzbastardzz
                    Superuser
                    bluezzbastardzz
                    Superuser
                    February 19, 2018

                    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.

                    ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
                      Anja
                      Deezer Staff
                      Anja
                      Deezer Staff
                      February 20, 2018
                      In the meantime you can use the external browser extension Last.fm 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.

                      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 🙂
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