#52 Last.fm submissions are processed too quickly

[cshipley]

Subsonic registers a "now playing" for Last.fm as soon as the song plays. That's correct.
Subsonic registers a "submission" for Last.fm 2 to 5 seconds after the "now playing". That's not correct. The submission (the considered meaning is that the song has been played) should not happen until the song is halfway through.

[cshipley]

Last.fm specific log

[Timo]

While I also think that 2-5 seconds is too short, I don't see a particular reasons why submitting at 50% playback time should necessarily be the way to go. IIRC, the official Android Last.fm client set the timeout to 30 seconds which I believe to be quite a reasonable value. My personal experience is that I cannot always guarantee being able to listen to 50% of a, say, 7-9 minutes song due to network disruptions. And yes, certain music genres comprise songs that long. (Read: Heavy Metal. :) )

[cshipley]

Looking at the success of the submits. It seems that the 2 submits are so close together, that it succeeds with the "now playing" submission, but frequently fails with the "played" submission. A possibility is just eliminating the "now playing" submission altogether.

[8/24/12 9:59:25 AM EDT] INFO PlaylistInputStream admin listening to "I Created Disco (2007)/Love Souvenir.mp3"
[8/24/12 9:59:28 AM EDT] DEBUG AudioScrobblerService Successfully registered now playing for song 'Love Souvenir' for user champro at Last.fm.
[8/24/12 9:59:31 AM EDT] DEBUG AudioScrobblerService Successfully registered submission for song 'Love Souvenir' for user champro at Last.fm.
[8/24/12 10:09:58 AM EDT] INFO PlaylistInputStream admin listening to "I Created Disco (2007)/Electro Man.mp3"
[8/24/12 10:10:01 AM EDT] DEBUG AudioScrobblerService Successfully registered now playing for song 'Electro Man' for user champro at Last.fm.
[8/24/12 10:10:04 AM EDT] WARN AudioScrobblerService Failed to scrobble song 'Electro Man' at Last.fm: FAILED Plugin bug: Not all request variables are set - no POST parameters.

[Anonymous]

Just want to say that being able to set the play time before scrobbling would be a good feature to add.