{"id":849,"date":"2010-08-16T21:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-08-16T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T02:05:24","slug":"recent-issues-with-scrobbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/849","title":{"rendered":"Recent Issues with Scrobbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around about two weeks ago I started experiencing problems with <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a>&#8216;s scrobbling service.  Scrobbling tracks what songs and albums users listen to and suggest similar music that the listeners may also like.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The specific problem that I have been facing is that certain online services and programs have either stopped scrobbling or are not scrobbling reliably.   I have not experienced any problems with iTunes or from the music player on my EVO.  However, most other music players that I have listened on &#8211; including VLC &#8211; have stopped scrobbling.  Also, the online service <a href=\"http:\/\/pandorafm.real-ity.com\">Pandorafm<\/a> had not worked last week, but appears to be working as of right now.<\/p>\n<p>I can find no pattern as to why some of these programs and services have stopped scrobbling &#8211; or why Pandorafm has started working again.  While searching the Internet, I found many complaints that VLC had stopped submitting tracks to Last.fm or had only been sending this information intermittently; however, no one seemed to have an answer as to why.<\/p>\n<p>This issue does not appear to be a problem at Last.fm, or nothing would scrobble.  However, I find it odd that a number of unrelated programs and services would stop working at or around the same time.  Also, I have not changed my Last.fm password recently (which would prevent programs from working until I updated their login credentials).<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you reading this had similar problems?  If so, do you have any idea what the cause is or was?  Also, If anyone from Last.fm has a suggestion, I would love to hear something official.  The same goes for the creators of VLC and Pandorafm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around about two weeks ago I started experiencing problems with Last.fm&#8216;s scrobbling service. Scrobbling tracks what songs and albums users listen to and suggest similar music that the listeners may also like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,17,15],"tags":[466,252,41,40,479,251,432,480],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-online","category-rant","category-music-services","tag-evo","tag-issue","tag-itunes","tag-lastfm","tag-pandorafm","tag-problem","tag-scrobble","tag-vlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}