[mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm

[Ali, Mustaqil M]

I clearly need to hit someone in the face then. Someone sitting next to
me...

 

I'm right, their answer is badly worded and rather lacking in details ;)

 

From: musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
[mailto:musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of
Adam Golding
Sent: 26 June 2008 13:17
To: General discussions about MusicBrainz
Subject: Re: [mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm

 

 

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 Track name link is out of date in light of changes on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

 




I seem to get contradictiig information, from last.fm support, saying
that MBID tags are not read by the official software, only mentioning
last.fm's own fingerprinting--quoted message below:



-------------------------------------------------
Hi,

last.fm <http://last.fm/>  only takes the metadata from the song on your
computer (song and
artist titles) and nothing else. Last.fm also has the option to
fingerprint
your tracks, you can read more here:
http://www.last.fm/help/faq/?category=Fingerprinting


Regards,
The Last.fm Support Team

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"Adam Golding" <adamgolding at gmail.com> wrote:

> does the official last.fm <http://last.fm/>  software submit
musicbrainz ids when scrobbling
> the ipod?
>
> 2008/6/26 Last. fm Support <support at last.fm>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry, but we currently do not offer support for scrobbling devices
other
> > than
> > with the offical Last.fm software, but if you wish, you can check
out
> > http://build.last.fm <http://build.last.fm/>  for other third party
plugins that might.
> >
> > Regards,
> > The Last.fm Support Team
> >
> > adamgolding <adamgolding at adamgolding.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What methods of scrobbling from portable devices will submit
musicbrainz
> > ids?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

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