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Michael
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
November 8, 2017
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Scrobble Last.fm from Deezer not working

  • 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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bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
September 5, 2021

Did you wait long enough for the whole song to scrobble and the next song to start playing already? The internal Deezer scrobbling does not provide information about the currently playing song unfortunately, so there is no “Scrobbling now” shown in your Last.fm recent tracks, it will appear as scrobbled only a few seconds after the new song has already started. So you might think scrobbling is not working, but in fact it does.

If you use the Web Scrobbler browser extension with the Deezer web player, this would work though. It would also explain why you can scrobble with the web player while the desktop app would not work.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
Guitar Hero
September 5, 2021

Did you wait long enough for the whole song to scrobble and the next song to start playing already? The internal Deezer scrobbling does not provide information about the currently playing song unfortunately, so there is no “Scrobbling now” shown in your Last.fm recent tracks, it will appear as scrobbled only a few seconds after the new song has already started. So you might think scrobbling is not working, but in fact it does.

If you use the Web Scrobbler browser extension with the Deezer web player, this would work though. It would also explain why you can scrobble with the web player while the desktop app would not work.

 

Yes I’m already aware of everything you’ve said. No I don’t use an extension. As far as I’m concerned it’s an issue that Deezer isn’t really interested in fixing so I suppose we’ll leave it at that.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
September 6, 2021

Fair point in your comments @jasongenova 

Our Legend here has been advocating for improvements for quite a long time @bluezzbastardzz but we haven't managed to convince our decision makers to prioritise this one yet. There's an open discussion about it here at Deezer, and because of the success of Last.fm, I haven't dropped the towel on this one. Thanks a lot for your support and patience!

PedroBrasa
Rising Star
Rising Star
October 6, 2021

Please remove those unnecessary album tags like (Deluxe Galaxy Wide Edition Standard Album Version).

 

Not to mention miswritten messes like Seasick Steve’s “Man From Another Time ( Only 2)”.

 

Isn’t there anyone on Deezer hired to mind those tags? Last.fm users like me care too much about these dumb letters. You seriously need a tag upkeeper.

"The Kids of Today Should Defend Themselves Against the '70s"
bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
October 8, 2021

Currently the Last.fm developers are working on a feature for Pro users to save their edited scrobbles for later playback independent from the source which would also allow to fix some of the known Deezer issues with scrobbling, so you would only have to edit your Deezer scrobbles once and not everytime when you play a related song. This is already possible with external scrobbling apps like the Web Scrobbler browser extension and Pano Scrobbler for Android.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
PedroBrasa
Rising Star
Rising Star
October 8, 2021

Even if it is already possible with Pano and Web Scrobbler, you can’t edit all the tracks from an album at once. For example, 

 

Why this (Acoustic) after every song title???

"The Kids of Today Should Defend Themselves Against the '70s"
bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
November 30, 2021

Today Last.fm released the new feature of saving edited scrobbles for later playback for Last.fm Pro users:

https://support.last.fm/t/save-edited-scrobbles/638

Save edited scrobbles in bulk for artists, albums and tracks

This will help Deezer users who have connected to Last.fm in their Sharing Preferences to correct their scrobbles from known issues like missing ampersands. The overview of edited scrobbles shows the original scrobble, and you can see your edits when clicking on the Edit icon there. It is sorted alphabetically per track and artist name. The external bulk scrobble edit script by Rudey should also work with the new feature without needing an update, as you can see in the screenshot, so you can now bulk edit artist, album and track names at once and only once. :wink:

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
mournfulpigeon
Rising Star
Rising Star
December 10, 2021

I'm also having issues with Last.fm scrobbling. I have enabled it (the logo is red), but the songs only get scrobbled when I use the web player. I use the desktop player (on macOS) and the iOS app. Both are up to date. I did wait long enough for the songs to end and I also tried reconnecting. Is there anything else I could try?

This feature really is a deciding factor for me whether I will continue using Deezer or not.

bluezzbastardzz
Superuser
Superuser
December 10, 2021

Do you use the Web Scrobbler browser extension perhaps, so that is why your Deezer listening is scrobbled in the web player? I haven’t heard of current problems with macOS/iOS yet, it works for me on Windows.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
mournfulpigeon
Rising Star
Rising Star
December 10, 2021

No, I don't have the browser extension installed.