Tags have never worked for me.  I've always run 6.5.1 with  the lasted
Audioscrobbler plugin.

Though in the past few days I'm questioning the usefulness of
scrobbling at all.  The Last.FM site is really bad.  Really really bad.

It has more bugs than Slimserver beta nightly releases and user data is
continuously getting lost or calculated wrong.  

Their developers also don't care about cleaning their databases nor
does the site's focus/goals center around giving its users much control
or configuration.  Lastly, don't get me started on their ghastly layout
and UI which is a nightmare to navigate.

Originally I had started scrobbling to be able to dump from last.FM to
my web site a list of recent plays.  They only have a really weak
method of doing this which lists only tracks and as an image.  They
have no concept of ALBUM from which tracks come, so I'm better off
trying to get a plugin for Slimserver to do this.  The other use was to
find new artists I might like based on my listening habits.  However
their algorithms for finding "similar" are so basic I was amazed at
some of the stuff they group together.  Plus when the site completely
wipes your neighbor lists, it makes it hard to follow even manually
what others are listening to.

Every problem I've ever seen so far with submitting info to Last.FM has
been the fault of Last.FM.  The Slim plugin does everything it should
(at least for track submission) but Last.FM's POST scrobbler server is
often down or otherwise refuses the data.  Then you'll get a mass
submission later in the day.


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MelonMonkey

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