Re: EMMS doesn't scrobble tracks to libre.fm, despite handshake reporting good

"Nathan R. DeGruchy" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using EMMS 12 from ELPA on Emacs 28.2.50, when I configure it to
> scrobble tracks to libre.fm, it handshakes with turtle.libre.fm and
> says that it was successful, but does not actually scrobble the
> tracks. I know that my account works because I can log into it and
> have configured it in other players, like Clementine and Strawberry.
>
> My configuration looks like this:
> https://github.com/ndegruchy/emacs.d/blob/10b7fc7d45c024081f3845c1978293d9d6e414c2/settings.d/external-packages.el#L47-L99
>
> Any ideas? I asked on IRC, but it seems like the libre.fm feature is not often used.

Thank you for reporting this.

It is working fine for me here on Emacs 28.2 and the latest Emms. I'm
wondering if there is a simpler explanation for this issue.

Can you please set the variables `emms-librefm-scrobbler-username', and
`emms-librefm-scrobbler-password' to an empty string ("") and then
configure your ~/.authinfo (or an other file understood by auth-source)
to house your username and password? This is the recommended way of
doing so (as per the Fine Manual).

Then make sure that you have a successful handshake.

Finally, play a track that is at least 30 seconds long, and also that is
either 4 minutes long or that you have played at least half of the track
(https://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling#when-is-a-scrobble-a-scrobble). You
should then get a short message saying that the track had been
"scrobbled".

If it is still not working, please report back and we'll enable some
debug info.

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