I'm only seeing around 50% of the tracks I listen to being scrobbled on last.fm I updated my kubuntu install yesterday from 11.10 to 12.04 in 11.10 I'd been running amarok 2.5.0 via a ppa so there's no version change but I've moved to the official package and a later kde release (4.8.2). This morning I've listened to 14 tracks and only 7 appear on last.fm - the latest one is there as well as the first, I also noticed, last night that some of the tracks I'd only listened to once were appearing on lastfm twice (adjacent to each other) the listening time being the same for both tracks (see http://www.last.fm/user/rajmarshall/tracks). This could be an issue at last.fm but with it coinciding with my upgrade it looks to be more likely on the amarok side. If I look at the amarok output in .xsesssion-errors I can see HTTP POST: QUrl( ... entries for the missing tracks.
Tracks showing twice with the same timestamp is certainly a last.fm bug, as Amarok has no influence on how last.fm displays tracks. The missing tracks though is maybe an Amarok problem. Could you please give the exact error lines from .xsession-errors with some lines before and after the track line?
While I am at it, did you check in http://www.last.fm/user/rajmarshall/library/recent? It seems to me that there are far more tracks shown.
Here's the .xsession-errors output for one of the missing tracks - no errors that are obvious to me - there's only http posts at the start of the track play - presumably this tells last.fm that it is now playing and the second missing one would tell last.fm that I completed listening to it? Tracks which are in my lastfm playlist have both the initial pair of posts and the final pair. What may be related - and I was getting around to preparing a bug report: for some tracks - when the track completes, amarok stops with it apparently being 2 seconds into playing the next track, play/pause won't get that track to play - I have to double click on the playlist to start it. I'm fairly sure that when this happens the previous track doesn't get sent to last.fm but I think that some tracks where there *isn't* a pause also don't get sent to lastfm. So this bug (299545) may be really about the track ending problem in which case it is assigned to the wrong component. (I'm using gstreamer as a backend) ------------- .xsession-errors ---------- About to finish Got next source. Waiting for end of current. New source: QUrl( "file:///home/robert/Music/My eMusic/Michael Tilson Thomas/Mahler_ Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major - Adagio from Symphony No. 10/12 Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major_ Part II - XII. Alles Verg_ngliche.mp3" ) Finally got a source Duration message Stream changed to file:///home/robert/Music/My%20eMusic/Michael%20Tilson%20Thomas/Mahler_%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%20-%20Adagio%20from%20Symphony%20No.%2010/12%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major_%20Part%20II%20-%20XII.%20Alles%20Verg_ngliche.mp3 Fading to 0.891251 Fading to 0.891251 HTTP POST: QUrl( "http://post2.audioscrobbler.com:80/protocol_1.2" ) "s=7ed95582b9fd4c1492b5e67d12c03db8&a[0]=Michael%20Tilson%20Thomas&t[0]=Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%3A%20Part%20II%20-%20XI.%20Blicket%20auf&i[0]=1336387302&o[0]=P&r[0]=&l[0]=392&b[0]=Mahler%3A%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%20-%20Adagio%20from%20Symphon&n[0]=0&m[0]=" HTTP POST: QUrl( "http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/np_1.2" ) "s=7ed95582b9fd4c1492b5e67d12c03db8&a=Michael%20Tilson%20Thomas&t=Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%3A%20Part%20II%20-%20XII.%20Alles%20Verg%C3%A4ngliche&b=Mahler%3A%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%20-%20Adagio%20from%20Symphon&l=375&n=0&m=" QString::arg: Argument missing: /PendingTrack, /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 Stream changed to file:///home/robert/Music/My%20eMusic/Michael%20Tilson%20Thomas/Mahler_%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major%20-%20Adagio%20from%20Symphony%20No.%2010/12%20Symphony%20No.%208%20in%20E-Flat%20Major_%20Part%20II%20-%20XII.%20Alles%20Verg_ngliche.mp3 Fading to 0.891251 Fading to 0.891251 "OK" "OK" QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (2, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (3, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (4, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (5, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (6, 1) already taken QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (7, 1) already taken About to finish Got next source. Waiting for end of current. New source: QUrl( "file:///home/robert/Music/media-a/Music/Chopin/Disc 09 Mazurkas - 25. Mazurka in B minor Op. 33 No. 4.mp3" ) Finally got a source Duration message Stream changed to file:///home/robert/Music/media-a/Music/Chopin/Disc%2009%20Mazurkas%20-%2025.%20Mazurka%20in%20B%20minor%20Op.%2033%20No.%204.mp3 Fading to 0.891251 Fading to 0.891251 HTTP POST: QUrl( "http://post.audioscrobbler.com:80/np_1.2" ) "s=7ed95582b9fd4c1492b5e67d12c03db8&a=Vladimir%20Ashkenazy&t=Mazurka%20in%20B%20minor%20Op.%2033%20No.%204&b=The%20Piano%20Works%20Disc%209%2F%2FMazurkas&l=276&n=0&m=" QString::arg: Argument missing: /PendingTrack, /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 Stream changed to file:///home/robert/Music/media-a/Music/Chopin/Disc%2009%20Mazurkas%20-%2025.%20Mazurka%20in%20B%20minor%20Op.%2033%20No.%204.mp3
(In reply to comment #2) > While I am at it, did you check in > http://www.last.fm/user/rajmarshall/library/recent? It seems to me that > there are far more tracks shown. I'm not sure what you're pointing me to here - there's only one in that addition list which is dated after I started seeing the problem - yesterday afternoon (Poissons d'or) and that's in the tracklist
I saw your comment wrt GStreamer vs VLC in bug #233282 and I have now installed the vlc backend and with this, so far, having played 30 tracks I've seen no tracks being un-scrobbled and no cases of the play back stopping 2 seconds in. So this looks to be a problem with the gstreamer backend in kubunu 12.04 (and not in 11.10), as far as amarok is concerned I think this bug is done.
Oh, quite surprising, but all the better, at least we know how to work around it. Thanks for spotting it. Reassigning to phonon-backend-gstreamer.
*** Bug 300412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
someone please try the 4.6 branch of phonon-gstreamer git TIA
Since the 4.6.1 version has been released several weeks ago, is this still valid?
Is there a ppa for the new phonon-gstreamer release on kubuntu? I can see a proposal to build it for 12.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phonon-backend-gstreamer/+bug/1028903 but it is not available yet
(In reply to comment #10) > Is there a ppa for the new phonon-gstreamer release on kubuntu? I can see a > proposal to build it for 12.04 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phonon-backend-gstreamer/+bug/ > 1028903 but it is not available yet Well, if it is made available it should appear in the kubuntu-backports PPA
I have kubuntu-backports PPA added and I'm still on 4.6.0
Is this still valid with phonon-backend-gstreamer 4.6.3 and Amarok 2.7.0?
I'm am 4.6.2 of gstreamer and I've not seen this since the 12.10 update - it can be closed!
Thank you for the fast feedback.