[mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm

[Crazee_Canuck]

On 2008-06-26 15:17, Adam Golding wrote:
> 
> 2008/6/19 Ali, Mustaqil M <muz at last.fm <mailto: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 Track name link is out of date in light of changes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 <http://last.fm> 
> support, saying that MBID tags are not read by the official software, 
> only mentioning last.fm <http://last.fm>'s own fingerprinting--quoted 
> message below:


There's protocol information available at 
<http://www.audioscrobbler.net/wiki/Protocol1.1> in case you haven't 
seen it.

OT: Hopefully amarok supports MBID submission in the near future...