[mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm

[Adam Golding]

ok, but how does last.fm scrobble classical music?  what does it expect to
see in 'artist'? can last.fm scrobble more effectively if other tags are
present as well?

2008/6/19 Ali, Mustaqil M <muz at last.fm>:

> At minimum, all we need are correct artist and track title tags in order
> for someone to scrobble.
>
> If you have MBIDs assigned to your track, we can rely solely on those to
> figure out what the track played, however there are things to be wary;
>
> 1) The plugin you use needs to submit the MBID. Although this is described
> in the scrobbling protocol, it is an optional parameter and not all plugins
> adhere to it. I think that the latest official client on Windows and all of
> its plugins do submit MBIDs, but a large number of third party scribblers
> don't.
>
> 2) Our MBID -> track name lookups rely on us having a copy of that MBID
> from when we last imported a copy of the MB database. Our data imports are
> not automated at the moment, and I can't vouch for when the last one was
> done. If we don't have the relevant MBIDs in our database, we default to
> reading your artist and track title at minimum, as a minimum to scrobble.
>
> 3) If our MBID -> Track name link is out of date in light of changes on the
> MB site, they may not have been imported for the same above reason, meaning
> that you may then get a wrongly assigned track name due to the MBID.
>
> -- Muz
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
> > [mailto:musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of
> > Kuno Woudt
> > Sent: 19 June 2008 07:12
> > To: adamgolding at adamgolding.com; General discussions about MusicBrainz
> > Subject: Re: [mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:43:50AM -0400, Adam Golding wrote:
> > > I am planning on using taggerscript to tag my files in a somewhat
> > unusual
> > > way.  What tags do I have to leave as is in order for things to
> > scobble
> > > properly with last.fm?  I'm specially worried about classical music,
> > too.
> >
> > If the software you are using for scrobbling submits the MBIDs of the
> > tracks, the other tags are mostly ignored i _think_.  Please confirm
> > this with the last.fm people, and... not all scrobble plugins submit
> > MBIDs, so make sure the one you're using does that.
> >
> > -- kuno / warp.
> >
> >
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