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Scrobble Last.fm from Deezer not working

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
November 8, 2017
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Hi @Lucelia.Mascarenhas,

It is possible to link your Deezer account to your Scrobble Last FM account from a computer/laptop using this link:

https://www.deezer.com/account/share

You should see the Scrobble as the option on the right.

Best answer by bluezzbastardzz

As far as I remember, Deezer’s internal scrobbling option wasn’t working correctly around that time and was simply lagging several hours with submitting the scrobbles to your Last.fm account, so probably it was coincidence that it started working for you again after reinstalling. This lagging occurs from time to time, and the only thing you can do in this case is wait.

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benyam1n

Roadie

don't work again(

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @benyam1n

Could you please reinstall the app? 😉

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Luka.Urbac

Rising Star

I've lost a whole day of scrobbles yesterday. Today it scrobbles fine. Any info whether the scrobbles can be retrieved?

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @Luka.Urbac

Will query this with our devs and get back to you if they can be retrieved.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi @Luka.Urbac

I've checked this and unfortunately the answer is no 😕

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ashfrr

Roadie

I have a small issue with scrobbling. I've linked my lastfm account, the scrobbling does work, but it doesn't work in real time — the scrobble displays on lastfm only when I finish listening to a certain song.

Can I fix it somehow? Thanks in advance.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

@ashfrr

I believe this is intended behaviour. @bluezzbastardzz could you confirm?

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ashfrr

Roadie

@Rudi well, that's a sad thing to hear but thank you anyway

V_Shaft

Hitmaker

Deezer's scrobbling implementation is still one of the poorest I've seen, severely limited. No real-time scrobbling, then artists with ampersand in their names are not scrobbled properly, albums and song names with parentheses are not scrobbled correctly, etc. Using Deezer with their built-in scrobbling implementation will sooner or later mess up your last.fm library.

Third party solutions are still the best:

Deezer web player + Web Scrobler browser extension works perfectly
Mobile app + Scroball app are a clean and elegant way to scrobble

bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

@ashfrr

I believe this is intended behaviour. @bluezzbastardzz could you confirm?

Well, "intended" probably is the wrong word, because it looks like the Deezer API does not offer the option to read the currently playing track (please someone correct me if that is wrong). So the internal Deezer scrobbling cannot display the "Scrobbling now" track on your Last.fm user profile which would also need a different Last.fm API request than the one for scrobbling.

The browser extension Web Scrobbler can do this, but then you would have to use the Deezer web player exclusively which e.g. means no FLAC streaming if you have a HiFi account. So I prefer the internal Deezer scrobbling with the desktop app and correct the mistakes afterwards with the new Last.fm feature of bulk editing the scrobbles in your library.

Last but not least the Mentor.fm online tool uses Deezer as its playback source, and it also displays the currently playing track in its GUI (not for scrobbling), but I don't know how this works if the Deezer API does not offer it.

By the way, while this thread is one year old and has almost 19k views, there also is a similar idea with "only" 3.5k views and 95 votes, so maybe these two should be merged or at least more interested people should vote on the idea.

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

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