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Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #150 –
Quote from: fuffi on
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 [] ?
Yeah, I do this on purpose because I mainly use it in JScript and the '[]' is needed to show that it's an empty array.

If you don't want to show anything in that case you could do:
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$iflonger(%lastfm_played_times%,2,%lastfm_played_times%,)

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #151 –
Uploaded v3.0.6 to the components registry. Don't think there's a reason to force an upgrade as the functionality is identical, only change is that the component was compiled with the release 1.4 SDK instead of the Beta, and the component size was cut in half.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #152 –
Do you ever plan to implement manual importing (and exporting to xml too) of statistics?

I know there's the last.fm import option, but it doesn't really do much for me as my early years on last.fm are a mess. A couple of years ago I downloaded all my last.fm data and with some help of excel I managed to weed out outliers and finally adopt it for original playback statistics component. But it took time and manual tinkering and I'm 100% sure no automation can manage to do that without my own input. Also, you know, maybe one day sites like YouTube or Soundcloud will allow downloading user history through API - another case where manual import would prove useful.

There's also the second reason, a bit more idealistic - the ability to import/export the stats would give me a sense of much more freedom and 'ownership' of my personal data.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #153 –
Quote from: Awesomeo on
Do you ever plan to implement manual importing (and exporting to xml too) of statistics?
I hadn't considered it before. If I were to ever do something like this, I'd probably export to JSON because it's easier to work with IMO.

Just to be clear, this component doesn't really backup the data from last.fm, it just backs up the data from last.fm for songs that you select (either manually or by playing them) so long as the data in last.fm matches one of the selected songs. So I pull plays for "Song A" from a particular artist, and I get back all the values for "Song A" and "Song B", but only those plays for "Song A" are saved... at least until "Song B" is played. Also, if last.fm has records of plays of "Song C" but it's not in your library (maybe the song title is mispelled locally) then you'll never see those plays recorded. It's not a great way to mirror the last.fm data which I think somewhat limits the value of exporting/importing.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #154 –
Quote from: MordredKLB on
If I were to ever do something like this, I'd probably export to JSON because it's easier to work with IMO.
And same with importing, I suppose? Well, JSON importer would be fine, because there's a lot of converters out there (even online like this: http://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter), so I could easily transform my xml/xls data.

Quote from: MordredKLB on
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).

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #155 –
Quote from: Awesomeo on
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).
That's why I relaxed pattern matching in this component from it's initial release. It wouldn't solve your "Florence and The Machine" to "Florence + The Machine" problem, but if your original artist name was "Florence & the Machine" that would have matched.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #156 –
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:


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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

Hope you can help, the component seems great

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #157 –
Quote from: Saulo-Aredes on
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:
Good catch. last.fm expects that usernames are not escaped (they only allow a-Z, '_', and '-'). I've stopped escaping usernames and things seem to work now.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #159 –
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

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #160 –
Quote from: PrimulaRosea on
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.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #161 –
Quote from: MordredKLB on
Quote from: PrimulaRosea on
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?
damnit, the problem of living in a 3rd world country lol
thanks for the answer!

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #162 –
Quote from: PrimulaRosea on
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).

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #163 –
Quote from: TheQwertiest on
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).
It goes through all the pages for the currently playing artist, at 200 scrobbles per page. With a full 200 scrobble request, it takes last.fm about 100-150ms to start returning a response, and then however long it takes to your internet to receive 150-200kb of data. On a slow connection it's possible even a single page could take longer than 500ms unfortunately. The less scrobbles you have with an artist the faster it'll go.

The component also minimizes requests by caching (if you're playing only songs by one artist you should never see the popup until you restart foobar), and also checking the last recorded scrobble we know about. So you might have 1000 scrobbles from an artist, but if the component has a record of the scrobble from yesterday it will stop making requests to last.fm if it finds scrobbles before that date in the last response.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #164 –
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.

Re: foo_enhanced_playcount - Record all song plays and Last.fm scrobbles

Reply #165 –
Quote from: kode54 on
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.
For the record, I do not have the knowledge or skills required to do this. Frankly I'm amazed I was able to write this component to begin with :)
 
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