Another (dumb) question:
in f2k, if we don't want to show an empty string/variable, we enclose it in [brackets].
And it greatly works with %lastfm_first_played%, but [%lastfm_played_times%] shows [] if its empty.
How can I suppress the [] ?

$iflonger(%lastfm_played_times%,2,%lastfm_played_times%,)

Do you ever plan to implement manual importing (and exporting to xml too) of statistics?

If I were to ever do something like this, I'd probably export to JSON because it's easier to work with IMO.

so long as the data in last.fm matches one of the selected songs

Yeah and that's a problem. When I was importing my last.fm to foo_playcount a few years ago, I only had ~80% of my foobar library tracks matching exactly my last.fm scrobbles. And these should be identical! But last.fm used to have the metadata correction option and also my library was constantly updating thanks to musicbrainz. So yeah, in the end I had to make manual changes in excel (for example: I had to swap all the last.fm's "Florence and The Machine" to stylised name "Florence + The Machine" to match my foobar library).

Querying last.fm: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getartisttracks&api_key=a1685abe5265b93cf2be4a70d181bf6b&user=Saulo%252dAredes&artist=Anti%252dFlag&limit=200&format=json&page=1
Found 0 plays in last.fm (since last recorded scrobble) of Liar

Hi.

I have a little problem with my username in last.fm and your plugin.

My username is "Saulo-Aredes" and when I used "Get last.fm scrobbles" the terminal said:

• No longer escaping usernames.
• Reporting last.fm errors in the console.

hey, I have a little problem with this plugin and I'm sorry if this already asked before


can I suppress that message? it usually is fine but sometimes it stealing focus when I'm gaming or watching videos and it's getting annoying when it happens too often

Quote from: PrimulaRosea on 2019-01-29 02:28:28

hey, I have a little problem with this plugin and I'm sorry if this already asked before


can I suppress that message? it usually is fine but sometimes it stealing focus when I'm gaming or watching videos and it's getting annoying when it happens too often

Unfortunately no. It's a requirement when using a separate thread to avoid blocking the main foobar UI. Foobar lets you delay it showing up for 500ms, so if the request completes in less than that time you won't see it. I've asked if there was a way to further delay or completely suppress that dialog and it appears the answer is no.

oh so the problem is because my internet connection is trash?

That or you have a big LastFM playback history - AFAIK the component has to go through all the pages to find the play count and play times (it caches pages for some time, so it much faster afterwards though).

The only workaround to doing it in the background would be to implement the full threading model of the background request manually, and avoid using the SDK's convenient threaded background process interface.

Apparently it's not working by me, but maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the component. I was expecting to retrieve the whole scrobbling history of the played track. I tested it with a playlist where all tracks have a few scrobbles, because I play it very often. I can see the popup showing up, but all lastfm fields remain empty. I tried with and without album, and with and without removing duplicates. The console log confirms that the query has been submitted, but the result is always "Found 0 plays in last.fm (since last recorded scrobble)".

Hi there! I've just come across this thread when searching for "user.getArtistTracks". I'm the Last.fm dev who sent the "mildly disturbing" message last year.

Based on the use case presented to me by MordredKLB last year, I have a different suggestion for a replacement API method when user.getArtistTracks goes away, which is that we'll create a new method to retrieve all scrobbles of a specific track.

Also, what do you mean FB got stuck? When you're pulling multiple data for multiple songs at once, the progress bar will appear, and should continue updating. If an artist has a ton of scrobbles, it might take some time to pull all of them so you might see it pause movement for 30s or so, but it'll continue moving again after that.

I managed to pull all of my scrobbles (about 80k out of a 230k tracks library) in less than an hour, but at first I had this freezing issue, too. Eventually I found the cause was not in the component itself, but in scripts triggered by the on_metadb_changed() event.
Usually these scripts were flawless, because even a massive tag update triggers the on_metadb_changed() event once only, whereas if you have many scrobbles of the same artist, foo_enhanced_playcount will fire a continuous series of on_metadb_changed() events. In my case, one of the scripts in question would run four queries if triggered, and by the time the memory used was released, the script might have been triggered several times more by the subsequent scrobbles imports, fast approaching foobar2000's memory cap.
I was able to handle the issue with the fromhook argument, which is always true when the metadb is changed by foo_enhanced_playcount (I was not as lucky with third party applications, such as beaTunes, but this is OT).

I'm still a newbie when it comes to JScript, but I found other scripts by more skilled users did not take this circumstance into account, all the same. So, my advise to who is having foobar2000 freeze while downloading the scrobbling history, is to check whether your scripts have demanding performances triggered by the on_metadb_changed() event.

@MordredKLB not a feature request, just curious: have you thought of downloading other lastfm data, such as tags and similar artists?

I haven't since there are other components that I assume do the same thing, and the original intent of this wasn't to be just a last.fm component.