Add option for apps that don't send track length
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I am using tidal-hifi as a Chromium/Electron app on Ubuntu 20.04 and only get the title/artist via MPRIS - nothing more, nothing less. To solve this, I currently only deleted the corresponding lines out of the source code and set the length to a constant of 30 seconds - which works in my case but I don't really like the solution.
I documented my changes here: Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi#11 (comment)
There should be an option to ignore the missing track length.
Hmm, it definitely makes sense to add this. The difficult part is that rescrobbled will currently scrobble a song multiple times when the same song keeps playing, so a default playing time of 30 seconds would cause a 2 minute song to be scrobbled 4 times. Do you have any ideas to avoid that?
Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for the quick reply! I'm using rescrobbled with the changes as documented and it works fine - no songs scrobbled multiple times. Just one thing is a bit weird: While playing a song it's displayed twice on last.fm (one as "scrobbling right now" and one as "x seconds ago"), after the track is done the second one gets removed.
I'm using rescrobbled with the changes as documented and it works fine - no songs scrobbled multiple times.
Interesting, I'll have to look into that then. Maybe the existing functionality is broken, haha.
Just one thing is a bit weird: While playing a song it's displayed twice on last.fm (one as "scrobbling right now" and one as "x seconds ago"), after the track is done the second one gets removed.
I think this may be the "now playing" song? If you submit a "now playing" request to Last.fm it will typically disappear automatically after a while.
I think this may be the "now playing" song? If you submit a "now playing" request to Last.fm it will typically disappear automatically after a while.
Yeah, I guess so. I was listening to the internal YouTube player on the last.fm site today and the current song got displayed the same way. Also, just to keep you updated: Someone added code to include the song duration and artist via MPRIS so if I'm lucky I might not even need this patch in the future anymore :)
Also, just to keep you updated: Someone added code to include the song duration and artist via MPRIS so if I'm lucky I might not even need this patch in the future anymore :)
Thanks for the update! I unfortunately haven't had any time to look into this yet, so I would love to hear if the patch ends up not being needed. :)
The pull request in tidal-hifi just got merged. Thus, from my side: I do not need the implementation of this feature in rescrobbled anymore. Feel free to close the issue - thanks again for your quick replies!
Awesome, thanks for keeping me in the loop! I'll close this issue now.