Bug#563500: rhythmbox: iPod scrobbling incompatible with Last.fm anti-spam system
John Halton
johnhalton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 13:23:00 UTC 2010
Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.12.6-1
Severity: important
When Rhythmbox scrobbles plays from an iPod (and presumably other media players), it scrobbles them as at the time they were played on the media player.
This means that if you have any later scrobbles from another source (e.g. directly from Rhythmbox itself), the earlier media player scrobbles get ignored by Last.fm as part of its anti-spam system.
It would be better to follow the approach taken by Amarok 1.4, of submitting the media player scrobbles backwards from the time the scrobbles are submitted.
Example: if I listen to tracks A and B on my media player at 12 noon and 12.05 pm on 1 January, then listen to track C on Rhythmbox at 1 pm on 2 January, and then plug my media player in to Rhythmbox at 2 pm on 3 January, the current behaviour of Rhythmbox means the track A and B scrobbles will be timestamped 12 noon and 12.05 pm on 1 January, and Last.fm will then ignore it as it pre-dates the existing scrobble of track C.
The Amarok-type behaviour would be to submit track A with the timestamp 2 pm on 3 January and track B with the timestamp 1.55 pm (say) on 3 January. Last.fm then records these quite happily.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (90, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gconf2 2.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.28.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaud 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-2 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.25-2 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbrasero-media0 2.28.2-1 CD/DVD burning library for GNOME -
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 2.28.2-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-media0 2.28.1-1 runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii libgpod4 0.7.2-2 library to read and write songs an
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.25-7 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support -
ii libmtp8 0.3.7-7 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii libmusicbrainz4c2a 2.1.5-3 Second generation incarnation of t
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.28.2-1 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.28.2-1 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libtotem-plparser12 2.28.2-1 Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii python 2.5.4-4 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-gnome2 2.28.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gst0.10 0.10.17-1 generic media-playing framework (P
ii python-gtk2 2.16.0-1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 1.0.6 automated rebuilding support for P
ii python2.5 2.5.4-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.25-2 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ug 0.10.13-2 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
ii gvfs-backends 1.4.1-6 userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii hal 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii notification-daemon 0.4.0-2 a daemon that displays passive pop
ii yelp 2.28.0+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME
Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn gnome-codec-install <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.28.1-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii python-coherence 0.6.4-4 Python UPnP framework
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