Scrobbling to last.fm not working

james_b

Raspberry Pi b+
Rune 0.3

I can't scrobble to last.fm. I have entered my credentials at /settings and double checked them but nothing scrobbles. Is there more to setting up scrobbling or is something broken?

cheers

james_b

Sorry for the bump, I just can't understand why this isn't working and I'd love to be able to use last.fm again.

hondagx35

Hi james_b,

i tested scrobbling to last.fm and it works fine on my Pi2.

Are there any special characters in your credentials?

Get access to the console and post the output from:

systemctl status mpdscribble

Should look like this:

[root@runeaudiorp2 ~]# systemctl status mpdscribble
* mpdscribble.service - last.fm updater for MPD
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpdscribble.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-11-06 01:53:12 CET; 15s ago
  Process: 1059 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1062 (mpdscribble)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mpdscribble.service
           `-1062 /usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid

With wrong credentials it looks like this:

[root@runeaudiorp2 ~]# systemctl status mpdscribble
* mpdscribble.service - last.fm updater for MPD
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpdscribble.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-11-06 01:49:10 CET; 5s ago
  Process: 1033 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1034 (mpdscribble)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mpdscribble.service
           `-1034 /usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid

Nov 06 01:49:12 runeaudiorp2 mpdscribble[1034]: [last.fm] handshake failed, username or password incorrect (BADAUTH)
Nov 06 01:49:12 runeaudiorp2 mpdscribble[1034]: [last.fm] waiting 60 seconds before trying again

Frank

james_b

Thanks for replying.

Oddly running that command seems to indicate that the credentials are correct, but it's still not scrobbling somehow.

[root@runeaudio ~]# systemctl status mpdscribble
* mpdscribble.service - last.fm updater for MPD
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpdscribble.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-11-06 00:07:14 GMT; 13h ago
  Process: 4991 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4992 (mpdscribble)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mpdscribble.service
           `-4992 /usr/bin/mpdscribble --pidfile /run/mpdscribble.pid

hondagx35

you can try to temporarily enable logging.

Edit /etc/mpdscribble.conf:

# The location of the mpdscribble log file.  The special value
# "syslog" makes mpdscribble use the local syslog daemon.  On most
# systems, log messages will appear in /var/log/daemon.log then.
# "-" means log to stderr (the current terminal).
log = /var/log/lastfm.log

# How verbose mpdscribble's logging should be.  Default is 1.
verbose = 3

The log will be stored in /var/log/ as lastfm.log:

2015-11-06T15:24:49+0100 connected to mpd 0.19.0 at localhost
2015-11-06T15:24:49+0100 starting mpdscribble (mdc 0.22)
2015-11-06T15:24:49+0100 loaded 0 songs from /var/cache/mpdscribble/lastfm.journal
2015-11-06T15:24:49+0100 new song detected (David Gilmour - Echoes), id: 4, pos: 3
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] handshake successful
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] session: f99cf99077d4375a7b3ff54b2be49321
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] now playing url: http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/np_1.2
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] submit url: http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.2
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] sending 'now playing' notification
2015-11-06T15:24:51+0100 [last.fm] OK
2015-11-06T15:29:50+0100 1446820190, songchange: David Gilmour - Echoes (1526)
2015-11-06T15:29:50+0100 new song detected (Howard Shore - Amon Hen), id: 5, pos: 4
2015-11-06T15:29:51+0100 [last.fm] submitting 1 song
2015-11-06T15:29:51+0100 [last.fm] post data: &s=f99cf99077d4375a7b3ff54b2be49321&a[0]=David%20Gilmour&t[0]=Echoes&l[0]=1526&i[0]=1446820190&o[0]=P&r[0]=&b[0]=Live%20In%20Gdansk%2FDisc%202&n[0]=05&m[0]=
2015-11-06T15:29:51+0100 [last.fm] url: http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.2
2015-11-06T15:29:52+0100 [last.fm] OK
2015-11-06T15:29:52+0100 [last.fm] sending 'now playing' notification
2015-11-06T15:29:52+0100 [last.fm] OK

Frank

james_b

I couldn't seem to get to the bottom of this and I was planning on upgrading the SD card anyway so I've reinstalled rune. Scrobbling is working now, thanks for your help.