Errors from scrobble

[gloomyandy]

MediaPortal Version: latest svn
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Latest svn seems to generate various scrobble errors (see logs). Seems to be sme sort of repeating pattern so I don't think it is a network problem....

Andy

[rtv]

There are many possible reasons why you might not have gotten a response but:

2006-11-24 21:07:25.265625 [Info.][12]: Audioscrobbler plugin: queuing song: Your Song - Elton John (The Best Love Songs...Ever! (Disc 1))
2006-11-24 21:07:25.265625 [Debug][12]: AudioscrobblerBase: trying to kill submit thread (no longer needed)
2006-11-24 21:07:25.500000 [Info.][10]: AudioscrobblerBase.GetResponse: HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream: Thread was being aborted.
2006-11-24 21:07:30.140625 [Info.][15]: AudioscrobblerBase: Submitting data: u=gloomyandy&a[0]=The+Beautiful+South&t[0]=Blackbird+On+The+Wire&b[0]=Solid+Bronze+-+Great+Hits&m[0]=&l[0]=193&i[0]=2006-11-24+21%3a02%3a05
&a[1]=The+Beautiful+South&t[1]=Blackbird+On+The+Wire&b[1]=Solid+Bronze+-+Great+Hits&m[1]=&l[1]=193&i[1]=2006-11-24+21%3a02%3a05
&a[2]=Elton+John&t[2]=Your+Song&b[2]=The+Best+Love+Songs...Ever!+(Disc+1)&m[2]=&l[2]=241&i[2]=2006-11-24+21%3a05%3a19
&a[3]=Elton+John&t[3]=Your+Song&b[3]=The+Best+Love+Songs...Ever!+(Disc+1)&m[3]=&l[3]=241&i[3]=2006-11-24+21%3a05%3a19
2006-11-24 21:07:30.687500 [Info.][15]: AudioscrobblerBase: Action successfully completed.
2006-11-24 21:07:30.687500 [Debug][15]: AudioscrobblerBase: submitted songs successfully removed from queue. Idle...

That is the important part - the system was able to recover itself after the connection was possible. Due to the xml-cache-file none of your played songs is lost

[gloomyandy]

Hi rtv,
Thanks for the quick response I wasn't sure if the logs indicated a real problem or not, I was a little concerned about the repeated thread being aborted messages didn't look like that was a good thing! Also I'd seen your change log note about changes to the scroble code and testing being needed so I thought I'd report what I'd been seeing. Is it normal to get this number of errors with the scrobble stuff? I have what is usually a good internet connection so I don't think the problems are at this end.....

Andy

[ronilse]

Hi,
Sometimes there are problem @ last.fm servers & this could make the log entries you see (it does so here sometimes), but as rtv said it submits the data later when server are ready for connection again so nothing it's lost

Regards
Roy

[gloomyandy]

One other question. Although the data maybe being submitted correctly. I'm sure that the scrobble feature in playlist is not returning new entries as often as it used to. It still returns some entries but I'm sure I seem to hit the end of my playlist more often than I used to. I used to be able to just pick a couple of "seed tracks" and then let it go and it would just keep on adding new entries. But recently I seem to keep hitting the end of the play list and have to add more tracks manually to kick things off again..... Maybe it is just me....

Andy

[ronilse]

hi,
You can adjust number of return "hits" which will be added to playlist in Configuration -> Plugins -> Scrobbler & configure.

Regards
Roy

[rtv]

yup - and if that's not enough you might want to reduce the "accuracy" by increasing the randomness with that slider there

[gloomyandy]

I thought I had the settings pretty loose. Do they get reset when you install a new svn? Will check the settings and see how I go. Thanks folks...

Andy

[rtv]

they are stored in your musicdatabase and user specific