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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

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    bluezzbastardzz
    Superuser
    Superuser
    March 25, 2026

    It seems I haven’t mentioned another alternative external scrobbling app for desktop users yet in this thread: Pano Scrobbler has a Windows and Linux version now as well which can scrobble Deezer correctly and in time showing “Scrobbling now” on your Last.fm profile. It also can use regex rules to remove unwanted additions to the scrobbles. There also is an option to only scrobble the first artist in a multiple artist name with featured artists.

    Furthermore you can circumvent the current lagging of the internal Deezer scrobbling (currently at least 14 hours or more), but this is also true for all external scrobbling apps which can scrobble Deezer. Note that you might get duplicate scrobbles when the lagged scrobbles finally arrive on your Last.fm profile, so you should disable the internal Deezer scrobbling.

    If you are on Discord and a desktop user, you will be able to scrobble with Music Presence soon, their version 2.4.0 with internal scrobbling for all supported media players and streaming sites will probably be released end of March.

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