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  • Offline Scrobbling

    Hello,

    I'm trying to implement offline scrobbling into my app, but it's not working correctly.

    I am saving the Scrobble requests to an array, and sending the requests when the app detects an internet connection. I am sending the requests with the exact same metheod I am sending as if it was a "live scrobbling."

    Last.fm is returning me an OK status, but it's just not scrobbling.

    It's not a problem with the array, neither with the metheod I'm calling, because it works on live scrobbling.

    Is there any different API call I need to do for offline scrobbling?

    Thanks.

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    • tburny said...
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    • 24 Oct 2010, 15:37
    "OK" only means all required parameters were sent, it hasn't anything to do with validation :)
    See http://www.last.fm/api/submissions

    You have to pay attention that timestamps are all correct and nothing has been scrobbled before :)

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  • Hmm. All the timestamps are the same as when it was added to that array, and I don't think changing the timestamp from when the song has started playing is a good idea.

    Any other idea? :s

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  • If someone is wondering, this is what I am passing to last.fm, apart from the sessionID.

    {
    album = "Mario the Music";
    artist = "Super Mario";
    genre = Jogo;
    name = "Ending BGM";
    songLength = "37.147";
    startTime = 1287959361;
    }

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    • tburny said...
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    • 24 Oct 2010, 23:03
    maybe try to use fix(songLength) to strip off the decimal part :) it is said "in seconds" in the docs, so maybe in integer seconds

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  • I can try that, but it is what I am sending when I'm scrobbling normally, so no idea why it would work different.

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