Bug 214161

Summary:	Last.fm scrobbling should be optional for videos.
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Justin Newman <eqisow>
Component:	Internet Services	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	lfranchi, simon.esneault
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.3-GIT
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Justin Newman 2009-11-11 20:08:36 UTC

Version:           2.2.1-GIT (using KDE 4.3.2)
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 4.4.2 20091027 (Red Hat 4.4.2-7) 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

I believe that most people's music videos are not properly tagged, and some people may even be playing non-music videos in Amarok. As such, last.fm scrobbling should be either disabled or optional for videos. With it enabled I end up with entries like the following in ym last.fm profile:

A Fine Frenzy – A Fine Frenzy - Electric Twist (live 2009).mp4

What's worse is that tagging doesn't work or isn't supported for many video formats, such as mpg or avi. (See bug #210334)

Comment 1 Justin Newman 2009-11-11 20:11:42 UTC

Actually, it seems that Amarok may not scrobble videos with zero tags and that the 'A Fine Frenzy' video above may have had the artist tag filled, then autoamtically used the filename as the title. If this is true, this is much better behavior than I thought.

It may still that should be addressed further, however. maybe onyl scrobble if artist *and* track title tags are present?

Comment 2 Sven Krohlas 2010-04-26 11:53:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 211495 ***