GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709338
Last.fm is scrobbling only to now playing and not to recent tracks
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:58:20 UTC
Created attachment 256347 [details] debug log When playing media from a UPNP/DLNA server, Last.fm is reporting correctly to Now Playing, but nothing is being reported to recent tracks. looking in the debug log, seems like the wrong track name is reported.
Hi there, sorry for the delay! Real life etc etc. I dug through the log you provided (thanks for that!) and I see that Last.fm itself is ignoring the tracks you submit because the track name is filtered. Based on my reading this is not necessarily a Last.FM related issue. Either Banshee (or whatever dependency it uses for FLAC) is incorrectly reading the track name from your FLAC tags or your FLAC files themselves are tagged incorrectly. Or perhaps your UPNP/DLNA server is somehow reporting the wrong info to Banshee? I'm not sure at this point. For starters I'll look into FLAC and leave the UPNP/DLNA checking for later. I don't use FLAC myself so I'm going to have to dig a bit into how Banshee uses FLAC tags. In the meantime, would you be able to: 1) Provide the tags for one of the tracks in your log? 'Foo Fighters - 01 - Stacked Actors.flac' would work. 2) Let us know what UPNP/DLNA server you are using (including version)?
I further checked this issue, using Serviio v1.3.1 as a software UPNP/DLNA server. in Serviio there are different views for the media (artists, albums, folders, ...), all of them are enabled by default and when Banshee scans the media server it creates duplicate entries. to fix that, I disabled all views except the folders view. in folders view, Serviio track names are the file names and this whats causing Banshee to report wrong. if I change Serviio to have only the artists view, Banshee is getting and reporting the correct file names, but then, some albums don't have any order for the tracks (I don't know if the tags are missing or Serviio doesn't report it). I have no problem changing to a different media server to solve this (for Linux), which are known to have the correct behavior with Banshee ?
Sorry for the late response! I don't have any experience personally with UPNP/DLNA servers. I'm hoping that one of the maintainers can provide a recommendation. Can any maintainers recommend a UPNP/DLNA that we know works without issues with Banshee?
Sorry for asking but, in which plugin is the UPNP/DLNA feature? I'm interested on that and I could help with some tests.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.