Following the discussions in various threads (including this one) about the scrobbling of tracks that are listened to via internet radio ... I did some experiments and reported the findings in the last.fm forum.
Basically - the official Slimdevices last.fm addin does scrobble tracks (not all - depends on the underlying saupport from the source, the meta data and length of track) and flags then with "R" to indicate that the track was not selected directly by the listener (i.e. internet radio). To the obvious surprise of many users - these tracks really do end up in your last.fm listening profile. last.fm say that they take the source (internet radio) into account when generating recommendations (e.g. lower weighting to playing your own music) - but it does stay in your profile. I then went to some real internet radio stations and got SqueezeCenter to scrobble info ... I picked ones that I could see would generate nonsense. I know that people's complaints here are more about genuine music appearing the profile which you don't want ... but I thought that if I could easily show that rubbish gets in there then it was more likely to get interest from last.fm I then used that rubbish to find other listeners who had been scrobbling without realising it and now last.fm have said that they will look into it again. More details here http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/454500 however, I have cleaned up my test tracks since then but you will get the idea. Meanwhile - I think it would be good to have a switch to disable SqueezeCenter from scrobbling internet radio plays. So I am hacking one line of Perl in mine to turn it off but an option would be better. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48880 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
