For those who scrobble with Rhapsody using RhapsodyScrobbler, I’ve felt your pain. Ever since a Rhapsody update earlier this month, Rhapsody’s Recent Tracks feed has been broken. Meaning I’m missing 3 weeks of listening history. And they’ve been slow as molasses in fixing it. I’m sure it’s because they’re running it through the same rigorous testing that prevents bugs from making it to production….DOH!
Don’t worry, I still love you, Rhapsody…
Anyway, I just discovered via the Rhapsody forums that someone wrote a scrobbler plugin for Rhapsody that integrates with the Rhapsody player itself. Works like a charm! The only mixed blessing is it seems to send track info as a track starts playing, rather than waiting until it is completed. Perhaps an annoyance to those who prefer to scrobble only after listening to a complete song, but I haven’t minded so far.
Enjoy!
The song has to play a certain percent of the song before it is actually saved in the scrobbling history. ScrobRhapsody uses the ScrobSub library to scrobble. It will announce the song as soon as it begins to play. If you open the client you can see when the client actually reaches the point that the song is actually scrobbled. If you stop playing the song before the point in time that the client says it is scrobbled then the scrobble is not saved in your history. This is a feature that Last.fm introduced with the lastest client. Some of the older plug-ins do not work like this, but any new plug-in that implements the ScrobSub audioscrobbler library will inherent this behavior.
Ron, many (belated) thanks for the comment! Great work on the plug-in, keep it up!