Re: Listenbrainz: no permanent storage of items

There is no problem with the player. I tried several players and the 
problem goes if I activate emms-playing-time-mode. Then the variable 
emms-playing-time gets updated and your code works accordingly...


On 11/23/25 23:36, Fran Burstall (Gmail) wrote:
>       (why is this necessary?) 
> 
> 
> The api places these restrictions on the submission (at least, I think 
> it does---cannot find a reference right now).
> 
> Now we know how things are failing, let us try to understand why.
> 
> 1.  While a track is playing, what is the value of emms-playing-time?
> 2. What does (emms-track-get (emms-playlist-current-selected-track) 
> 'info-playing-time) return?
> 
> I am going off the air now but will get back on this tomorrow in about 
> 20 hours.
> 
> ---Fran
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 at 22:13, Igor Sosa Mayor 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     I think I found the problem (or the source of the problem...). I made a
>     simplified version of your code:
> 
>     (defun emms-listenbrainz-scrobbler-stop-hook ()
>         "Submit the track to listenbrainz if we have listened long enough.
> 
>     That is, if it has been played for 240 seconds or half the length of
>     the
>     track."
>         (let ((current-track (emms-playlist-current-selected-track)))
>           (emms-listenbrainz-scrobbler-make-async-submission-call
>                 current-track)))
> 
>     Removing the code about the length (why is this necessary?) and now it
>     is working. But still I do not understand why this is happening. Maybe
>     because of this?
> 
>             (when (and track-length
>                       ;; only submit files
>                       (eq (emms-track-type current-track) 'file))
> 
>     --- Igor
> 
> 
>     On 11/23/25 23:04, Fran Burstall (Gmail) wrote:
>      > I wonder if there is something else in the finished hook that fails
>      > ahead the call to the scrobbler?  What is the value of emms-player-
>      > finished-hook?
>      >
>      > However, that would not explain the empty failed process buffers:
>     does
>      > one of these appear after every scrobble attempt?
>      >
>      > To see if it is the hook that fails, execute
>      >
>      > (emms-listenbrainz-scrobbler-make-async-submission-call (emms-
>     playlist-
>      > current-selected-track))
>      >
>      > and see if that records a scrobble.  For me, it does most of the
>     time
>      > but, during testing today, it has failed 4 times leaving a failed
>      > process buffer.
>      >
>      > ---Fran
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 at 21:37, Igor Sosa Mayor
>      > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >      > and let me know what appears in the message buffer when
>     you try
>      >     to scrobble.
>      >
>      >     Exactly the same.
>      >
>      >     I have the impression the finished-hook is not called...
>      >
>      >     In the buffer URl-Debug I get the following (token removed
>     obviously),
>      >     but only after starting the track.
>      >
>      > https://paste.rs/8Vl5n.txt <https://paste.rs/8Vl5n.txt> <https://
>     paste.rs/8Vl5n.txt <https://paste.rs/8Vl5n.txt>>
>      >
>      >     After finishing there are no new messages logged.
>      >
>      >     But why should a hook not be triggered?
>      >
>      >     Thanks again.
>      >
>      >     --- Igor
>      >
>