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Are there any plans to address the known last.fm scrobbling issues?

  • July 31, 2025
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Such as omitting & in song, album, and artist’s names.

I specifically joined because scrobbling was available, but editing every single King Gizzard, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Iron & Wine, Peaches & Herb, Mama’s & Papa’s song would be SUPER DISAPPOINTING.

Best answer by Jaime.Deezer

Hi ​@dai77 Last.fm sometimes omits the (&) symbol when scrobbling track, album, or artist names. This can lead to discrepancies in the displayed information on Last.fm. It's a known issue that affects certain track names.
Have you contacted Last.fm support?
Thanks and apologies for the inconvenience

 

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Jaime.Deezer
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  • August 3, 2025

Hi ​@dai77 Last.fm sometimes omits the (&) symbol when scrobbling track, album, or artist names. This can lead to discrepancies in the displayed information on Last.fm. It's a known issue that affects certain track names.
Have you contacted Last.fm support?
Thanks and apologies for the inconvenience

 


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  • Guitar Hero
  • August 3, 2025

I have no problems with scrobbling from Spotify, which I am leaving to join Deezer. Lastfm forums as far back as '09 state Deezer internal doesn't scrobble "&" correctly. And what I'm speaking of isn't sometimes. It's 100% of any title, album, or artist name with & omits that character. It would be nice to get this fixed


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  • Guitar Hero
  • August 3, 2025

My bad, the form I noticed was from 2019


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  • Guitar Hero
  • August 13, 2025

Such a disappointment. You tell me it's a known issue, after I already state it's a known issue. You ask me to address it, when I'm literally asking you if you are addressing it


  • Guitar Hero
  • February 7, 2026

I stuck upon a comment regarding ampersand issue left 13 YEARS ago.


bluezzbastardzz
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Hi ​@dai77 Last.fm sometimes omits the (&) symbol when scrobbling track, album, or artist names. This can lead to discrepancies in the displayed information on Last.fm. It's a known issue that affects certain track names.
Have you contacted Last.fm support?

It is the other way round, Deezer’s internal scrobbling option does not submit the ampersand in artist names, album and track titles. So Last.fm cannot fix this, only Deezer could. It also does not submit additional info in brackets which might be important e.g. to differentiate between versions of tracks on Deluxe Editions of albums. These issues have always been present, i.e. as long as Deezer has implemented their internal scrobbling option.

A workaround would be using external scrobbling apps for Deezer instead if they are available for your device like the Web Scrobbler browser extension or Pano Scrobbler for Android.

Another method to repair this is becoming a Last.fm Pro user, so you can edit your past wrong Deezer scrobbles in your library. As you can also enable an auto-edit feature for future scrobbles, you only have to do this once. But of course it would be better if Deezer could fix this issue.