[mb-users] taggerscript / last.fm

[Adam Golding]

2008/6/26 Crazee_Canuck <ed.shornock at gmail.com>:

> 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 Track name link is out of date in light of changes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...


oh, nice, since I saw there was a way to install amarok on PC, too.  I'm
really itching to leave iTunes in the dust but I'm currently locked in by:

1. MBID submission from the program (only foobar/winamp/wmp/itunes, to my
knowledge)
2. MBID submission from a portable device (only iTunes)
2. syncing ratings to a portable device (not possible with many programs,
including foobar and foo_dop, so far)

iTunes seems to be only way to do all three at the moment, alas.


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