I'm doing the same thing here (using iTunes tough). But i bet the problem can be solved by correcting your preferences, in the scrobbling part you can select the disks containing music that are allowed to be scrobbled. Maybe you can add your network disk here ?
Nope. Can't add networked folders. Last.fm really needs to fix this, especially considering the number of people running media servers these days. I listen from one computer, but use Windows Media Player or iTunes to grab my songs from another computer. Why wouldn't they update the scrobbling software to take note of these plays? Take a look at the forums as to how many people are asking about this feature!
Consider this another vote for fixing this. Network attached storage is becoming more commonplace and the "only certain directories" feature is becoming more and more annoying as time passes.
Are you using windows? Make sure the networked drive has got a driveletter assigned, and scrobbling is not different as scrobbling from your C-drive. Mac-users... I am sorry, I have no answer for you. I have no experience with Mac.
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I also vote up on this - assigning drive letters is unnecessary when using e.g. a Windows Home Server and only slows down your system on bootup when not connected. Please allow this!
RenBoy said: Nope. Can't add networked folders. Last.fm really needs to fix this, especially considering the number of people running media servers these days.Yup. That's right. This is not a valid workaround for home *media* servers. Some technical info on this situation:
Enabling Media Sharing on Windows Vista and Windows 7 results in your MP3s being re-encoded (actually, "transcoded") into a more network friendly format and streamed like internet radio. There are advantages to this: It is less bandwidth intensive (wireless clients benefiting in particular) and it doesn't put as large a burden on the home network and server as constantly pulling large MP3 files from a mapped network drive.
Due to the transcoding from MP3 to a different format, the title, artist, etc., data is not being send in ID3 format so the Last.fm client cannot interpret it without further coding work. And that's why your music (being networked in this way) cannot be scrobbled.
In short: It's not a trivial thing to code into the client, and I suspect the Last.fm team have other priorities.
Personally, I think Last.fm should have paid attention to this kind of media streaming technology when *hardware* media servers like Squeezebox began turning up in people's homes years ago. Vista was the first Windows OS to ship with a Media Server that works on the same principles, and three years later, an even better version has been shipped with Windows 7.
But still no support in the Last.fm client. *shrug*
Jester-NL said: Assigning driveletters to network locations is around about as long. I think it is more 'standard practice' than 'work around'.It really isn't. To get Last.fm to scrobble properly I've had to assign a drive letter, this in turn meant configuring every media player that Last.fm hooks into to monitor the drive letter rather than the network share path and just for a real kick in the teeth windows 7 doesn't let you have a network drive letter in a library. The code needs updating, end of.
can i scrobble from a networked computer?