The Official Last.fm thread

2010-12-12 01:14:21

#201

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Well thats pretty useless Campus-wide wifi has too many dead spots and sucks the battery too quickly.

and thats pretty much why I have had such a low play count for so long...

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2010-12-12 01:19:50

#202

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|6872

I thought there was a way where it would cache all your plays and then sync/update when you plugged it into your computer? I'm probably mistaken, as I only briefly remember coming across it in one of their help threads once.

2010-12-12 01:23:03

#203

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

alexb wrote:
I'm not on the list.

username: saheeeb

gotcha, what is your player preference?

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2010-12-12 01:24:57

#204

Bevo: Nah; +718|6739|Austin, Texas

<- itunes, please

Last edited by Bevo (2010-12-12 01:25:39)

2010-12-12 01:26:46

#205

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

ok

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2010-12-12 01:29:33

#206

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

mtb0minime wrote:
I thought there was a way where it would cache all your plays and then sync/update when you plugged it into your computer? I'm probably mistaken, as I only briefly remember coming across it in one of their help threads once.

Most of the solutions I've seen involve a jailbreak .. which isn't necessarily a big deal.

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2010-12-12 01:31:45

#207

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

I'm reading some pretty outdated post on this .. I better verify the official app hasn't been updated first .. charging

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2010-12-12 01:53:44

#208

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Well thats pretty useless Campus-wide wifi has too many dead spots and sucks the battery too quickly.

It appears that so long as you sync with itunes within two weeks of playing the tracks.. It will submit your qued plays.
http://www.last.fm/help/faq?category=iPod+Scrobbling

also note

If you played a track multiple times on your iPod, all occurrences have the same timestamp, and all plays on an iPod Shuffle have the same timestamp

If I'm reading that right, it would seem that you are going to only get one submission for each play of the same song.

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2010-12-12 01:59:31

#209

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|6872

Kmar wrote:
If you played a track multiple times on your iPod, all occurrences have the same timestamp, and all plays on an iPod Shuffle have the same timestamp
If I'm reading that right, it would seem that you are going to only get one submission for each play of the same song.

Or possibly that it'll submit all your plays, but they'll show up as having been played at the same time.
E.g.
Joe Schmo - La la 10 minutes ago
Joe Schmo - La la 10 minutes ago
Joe Schmo - La la 10 minutes ago
as opposed to
Joe Schmo - La la 10 minutes ago
Joe Schmo - La la 15 minutes ago
Joe Schmo - La la 57 minutes ago

2010-12-12 02:02:38

#210

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

I doubt that would be accepted by last.fm.. Try changing the clock time on your computer and scrobbling . Last.fm takes step to prevent padding... and that would look like play padding to me.

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2010-12-12 05:02:13

#211

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6845|UK

You get multiple scrobbles of the same timestamp. So if you listened to an album twice, and then synced with iTunes it would like like this:

Track 4 - Artist 30 minutes ago
Track 4 - Artist 30 minutes ago
Track 3 - Artist 34 minutes ago
Track 3 - Artist 34 minutes ago
Track 2 - Artist 37 minutes ago
Track 2 - Artist 37 minutes ago
Track 1 - Artist 40 minutes ago
Track 1 - Artist 40 minutes ago

Where the timestamp is the time that you last played the track.

last.fm is fine with it

2010-12-12 05:20:40

#212

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6818|132 and Bush

I did it and synced and hour ago.. none of my tracks have even shown up (yet?).

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2010-12-12 08:25:16

#213

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6956|Toronto | Canada

What if youre scrobbling music at the same time as when you sync it? So confused

2010-12-12 10:46:25

#214

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6688

when you listen to music on your ipod it syncs with your itunes 'recently played' playlist, which is a smart-playlist and keeps timestamps. the 'issue' with it putting repeat-listens of the same song at the same 'time' is down to this feature of itunes: the 'recently played' smartlist only keeps one, singular time-log for each song's recent listen.

therefore you can sit at your computer, listen to music, sync your ipod/iphone... and it'll all go on your charts. the only 'discrepancy' will be that it'll seem as though the last time you listened to music was the last song you played on your ipod/iphone... until, of course, you just scrobble another track from your currently-playing media-player.

Last edited by Uzique (2010-12-12 10:47:34)

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2010-12-12 12:13:06

#215

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6956|Toronto | Canada

Mine didn't sync Did you have to configure itunes/last.fm somehow?

2010-12-12 12:21:45

#216

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6688

make sure the clocks on your pc/ipod are both set properly

you don't have to configure it anymore than to just install it.

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2010-12-12 12:40:36

#217

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6956|Toronto | Canada

Hmm, okay I'll attempt it again when I'm back at my computer. Maybe I need to reinstall the last.fm plugin for itunes or something.

2010-12-12 12:55:09

#218

Bevo: Nah; +718|6739|Austin, Texas

Mine doesn't scrobble all the time, but it seems to catch most of everything when it does

it does have some rather... odd occurrences though, scroll through the number of times played or sort them by that before scrobbling. It works for the most part, but every once and a while it says you listened to a track or two 400 times.

2010-12-12 13:44:26

#219

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6956|Toronto | Canada

Bevo wrote:
Mine doesn't scrobble all the time, but it seems to catch most of everything when it does

it does have some rather... odd occurrences though, scroll through the number of times played or sort them by that before scrobbling. It works for the most part, but every once and a while it says you listened to a track or two 400 times.

Playcount hax

2010-12-12 14:13:00

#220

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6845|UK

Mine has always worked well. I've never noticed any missing scrobbles. I have the "always confirm" feature checked - so I'm presented with a list of what's about to be scrobbled, before the tracks are scrobbled.

Had an issue last week with it not detecting my iPod properly - but I think that was mainly due to an iTunes update.

2010-12-12 15:47:09