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Renne
Rising Star
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

    bluezzbastardzz
    Superuser
    Superuser
    May 2, 2022

    Well, sort of, as the Last.fm Pro feature of editing past scrobbles in your library now includes an option to apply your edits to future scrobbles, so you only have to edit wrong Deezer scrobbles once, and then it should be automatically edited when you play that track again. See these related announcements and FAQs:

    https://support.last.fm/t/editing-scrobbles-last-fm-pro-feature/187#automatic-scrobble-editing-4

    https://support.last.fm/t/how-do-i-bulk-edit-scrobbled-albums-and-artists/1438

    https://support.last.fm/t/deezer-scrobbling/177

    This would work for missing ampersands and missing additions in brackets, but not for missing scrobbles due to plus signs in the artist, album or track title. These would still have to be added with manual scrobbler tools afterwards.

    ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
    Roadie
    October 21, 2022

    Yea, deezer really should improve the scrobbling by scrobbling tracks only when they’ve been played for couple of minutes or 50-70% through the track length. Everytime I’m searching for some certain track skipping through like ~20 songs I know that I will have to go and delete all those ~20 wrong scrobbles from last.fm manually.

    Also, while at it, deezer could apply the same rules to the user listening history page, we can’t even delete stuff from it (though I have to admit it has way less skipped tracks that I don’t want into my history). Unless of course it doesn’t affect the Flow whatsoever.

    bluezzbastardzz
    Superuser
    Superuser
    October 21, 2022

    A workaround for the problem with scrobbling a track after a few seconds is to not use the internal Deezer scrobbling option anymore and rather use their web player plus the Web Scrobbler browser extension which scrobbles the standard way, i.e. after 50% of the track length or after 4 minutes for longer tracks than 8 minutes.

    This also makes sense if you are interested in gapless playback with HiFi streaming, because the web player is able to do that for a few weeks now, but not the desktop app. Also the Web Scrobbler shows the “Scrobbling now” track on your Last.fm user profile which can be used by  other apps like the fullscreen tool Descent or Last.fm’s Pro fullscreen feature.

    ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
    Guitar Hero
    January 22, 2023

    Deezer for pc doesn’t seem to have any place to address last.fm scrobbling. My phone (black player) scrobbled, and so does jriver, But not Deezer for the pc, as far as I can tell

    bluezzbastardzz
    Superuser
    Superuser
    January 22, 2023
    ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
    Guitar Hero
    January 22, 2023
    Hitmaker
    January 5, 2025

    Deezer still doesnt scrobble Hearted and disliked songs to Last FM :/

    Leonídia.Deezer
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 17, 2025

    Hi ​@Evonos! Thanks for reaching out!

    Currently, scrobbling for hearted and disliked songs to Last.fm isn't in our plans to implement.

    I appreciate your feedback, though!

    Leonídia.Deezer
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 31, 2025
    In discussion→Not for now
    ProfessorRufal
    Roadie
    Roadie
    August 3, 2025

    The Deezer desktop app still scrobbles tracks after only about ten seconds of play. Please give us the option to adjust this in the “Sharing preferences” tab of the web player.