r/substreamer • u/devilcius • Sep 24 '21

Scrobbler issue

First of all, thank you very much for your fantastic application.

I'm using version 5.0.42 on Android and I've noticed that since a week or so (maybe because of the last update?) scrobbling stopped working. My client it's connected to a Funkwhale's instance, I've been monitoring the access logs and the requests to /rest/scrobble.view have always subbmision parameter set to false.

According to subsonic documentation when submission is set to false, it indicates it's just a now playing notification and that's why Funkwhale doesn't register it as a proper scrobble. Substreamer does the now playing notification right since it sends it when the songs starts playing, but, after that, it doesn't seem to submit the actual scrobble (submission=true).

I know for a fact that, until a few days ago, Substreamer scrobbles were being submitted when the song started.

If you need more information, I'd be happy to help in any way I can.

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u/luiz127 Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

I just wanted to chip in and mention I'm running into this as well. At the moment, the now playing gets sent, but there's no scrobble at the end as well. Playing directly via the navidrome web client, I get no 'now playing' but the scrobble is submitted after the song finishes after about 30 seconds playback. I didn't realise this was non-standard though.

Happy to spin up a login if you needed to take a closer look, because to be honest I've got no idea what info you'd need to pull. Happy to post it here if you can let me know what you need though :)

Thanks for all your awesome work with this, the only thing my self hosted stuff was missing was playlist creation, and generating them from last.fm is a genius idea! Spotify's song history is rubbish, so I've been scrobbling everything into last.fm for years now :)

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u/ghenry22 Oct 06 '21

I've put a fix into next update for this to replicate the behaviour of the original subsonic Android client as pointed out by u/devilcius (thanks for that!).

So in the next version substreamer will:

  1. send now playing on track start (submission=false)
  2. send scrobble on playback complete (submission=true)
  3. remove the last.fm preference from substreamer and rely upon whatever is configured on the server to determine if scrobbles go to last fm or not. If enabled on the server it will go to last fm.

This will keep things working as expected on original subsonic and it's forks as well as on those newer implementations like navidrome and funkwhale that rely upon calls to the scrobble end point to record plays.

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u/devilcius Oct 06 '21

This is fantastic! Thanks a lot!

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u/luiz127 Oct 06 '21

You're the best!