A fun way to keep track of things in the project to fix or improve.
Effectively, any track that comes in without a MusicBrainz ID does some funky lookup where it doesn't find a track without an MB id and the track title / artist combination and creates a new track everytime. This has to be cleaend up by condensing the duplicated tracks into the original proper track.
But it opens a bigger quesiton about how much MB id should the drive the app lookup. If it can't be depended on to exist from all sources, it really can't be canonical. Instead, the combination of track title / artist is really the best we can do. Last.fm also has this problem, where it doesn't know about albums and definitely does not know or care about MB ids.
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https://code.unbl.ink/secstate/vrobbler/commit/93c16d80ec
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Nothing. Over the last few months I built out a youtube model in videos and use a bookmarklet scrobbling pattern. Now web-scrobbler is just disabled for Youtube.
May want to revisit this at some point and only scrobble tracks from Youtube, because many people use YT for music listening.
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Essentially, we currently have the timestamp as when the content began scrobbling and then calculate the finish time from the length of the content. This works pretty well because we know how long most things are.
But in some cases, sports events or long podcasts, we may start mid-way through an event or finish halfway through but still want to mark it as done. In these cases, knowing the finish time could be useful, especially when interfacing with other scrobblers which may have different definitions of when a scrobble finishes or started.
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CLOSED: [2023-03-24 Fri 00:31] The live view will be blank every Monday, no reason to tie it to a day of the week. It should be "the last 7 days"
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An example: https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/blob/master/src/core/background/scrobbler/maloja-scrobbler.js
This is actually going to be moot because we can import from LastFM, and web-scrobbler integrates well with LastFM. The only thing to think through here now is what to do with all the garbage web-scrobbler sometimes pushes to LastFM from Youtube (all videos get pushed, sigh).
This turned out to be a non-starter … Amazon is aggressive at disallowing scraping quality. And all the OSS tools out there are stuck in an arms race trying to keep them from breaking.
That said, Google Books actually has a decent API (for now), and I've built this out using that.
This was fixed a while ago, but there's a new manifested bug. Going to create a separate bug tracking ticket for that.
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When we get artwork from Musicbrianz, and it's not found, we should check for release groups as well. This will stop issues with missing artwork because of obscure MB release matches.
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If we play music from Jellyfin and the track reaches 90% completion, the scrobbling goes crazy and starts creating new scrobbles with every update.
The cause is pretty simple, but the solution is hard. We want to mark a scrobble as complete for the following conditions:
Play stopped and percent played beyond 90%
Play completely finished
But if we keep listening beyond 90, we should basically ignore updates (or just update the existing scrobble)
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An example of the format:
, #AUDIOSCROBBLER/1.1 #TZ/UNKNOWN #CLIENT/Rockbox sansaclipplus $Revision$ 75 Dollar Bill I Was Real I Was Real 4 1015 S 1740494944 64ff5f53-d187-4512-827e-7606c69e66ff 75 Dollar Bill I Was Real I Was Real 4 1015 S 1740494990 64ff5f53-d187-4512-827e-7606c69e66ff 311 311 Down 1 173 S 1740495003 00476c23-fd9e-464b-9b27-a62d69f3d4f4 311 311 Down 1 173 L 1740495049 00476c23-fd9e-464b-9b27-a62d69f3d4f4 311 311 Down 1 173 L 1740495113 00476c23-fd9e-464b-9b27-a62d69f3d4f4 311 311 Random 2 187 S 1740495190 530c09f3-46fe-4d90-b11f-7b63bcb4b373 311 311 Random 2 187 L 1740495194 530c09f3-46fe-4d90-b11f-7b63bcb4b373 311 311 Jackolantern’s Weather 3 204 L 1740495382 cc3b2dec-5d99-47ea-8930-20bf258be4ea 311 311 All Mixed Up 4 182 L 1740495586 980a78b5-5bdd-4f50-9e3a-e13261e2817b 311 311 Hive 5 179 L 1740495768 18f6dc98-d3a2-4f81-b967-97359d14c68c 311 311 Guns (Are for Pussies) 6 137 L 1740495948 5e97ed9f-c8cc-4282-9cbe-f8e17aee5128 311 311 Misdirected Hostility 7 179 S 1740496085 61ff2c1a-fc9c-44c3-8da1-5e50a44245af ,
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This would allow a few nice flows. One, you'd be able to record the play of an entire album by just dropping the muscibrainz_id in. This could be helpful for offline listening. It would also mean bad metadata from mopidy would not break scrobbling.
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Given a UUID from musicbrainz, we should be able to scrobble an album or individual track.
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Maloja does this cool thing where artists and tracks get recorded as the top track of a given week, month or year. They get gold, silver or bronze stars for their place in the time period.
I could see this being implemented as a separate Chart table which gets populated at the end of a time period and has a start and end date that defines a period, along with a one, two, three instance.
Of course, it could also be a data model without a table, where it runs some fun calculations, stores it's values in Redis as a long-term lookup table and just has to re-populate when the server restarts.
{ "type": "event", "event": "track_playback_ended", "data": { "tl_track": { "__model__": "TlTrack", "tlid": 13, "track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "file:///var/lib/mopidy/media/podcasts/The%20Prince/2022-09-28-Wolf-warriors.mp3", "name": "Wolf warriors", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "name": "The Economist" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "name": "The Prince", "date": "2022" }, "genre": "Blues", "date": "2022", "length": 2437778, "bitrate": 127988 } }, "time_position": 3290 } }
{ "type": "event", "event": "playback_state_changed", "data": { "old_state": "paused", "new_state": "playing" } }
{ "type": "event", "event": "playback_state_changed", "data": { "old_state": "stopped", "new_state": "playing" } }
{ "type": "event", "event": "track_playback_started", "data": { "tl_track": { "__model__": "TlTrack", "tlid": 13, "track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "file:///var/lib/mopidy/media/podcasts/The%20Prince/2022-09-28-Wolf-warriors.mp3", "name": "Wolf warriors", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "name": "The Economist" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "name": "The Prince", "date": "2022" }, "genre": "Blues", "date": "2022", "length": 2437778, "bitrate": 127988 } } } }
{ "type": "status", "data": { "state": "paused", "current_track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "file:///var/lib/mopidy/media/podcasts/The%20Prince/2022-09-28-Wolf-warriors.mp3", "name": "Wolf warriors", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "name": "The Economist" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "name": "The Prince", "date": "2022" }, "genre": "Blues", "date": "2022", "length": 2437778, "bitrate": 127988 }, "time_position": 2350 } }
{ "type": "event", "event": "track_playback_started", "data": { "tl_track": { "__model__": "TlTrack", "tlid": 14, "track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "local:track:Various%20Artists%20-%202008%20-%20Twilight%20OST/01-muse-supermassive_black_hole.mp3", "name": "Supermassive Black Hole", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:250dd6551b66a58a6b4897aa697f200c", "name": "Muse", "musicbrainz_id": "9c9f1380-2516-4fc9-a3e6-f9f61941d090" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "uri": "local:album:md5:455343d54cdd89cb5a3b5ad537ea99d0", "name": "Twilight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:54e4db2d5624f80b0cc290346e696756", "name": "Various Artists", "musicbrainz_id": "89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377" } ], "num_tracks": 12, "num_discs": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "musicbrainz_id": "b4889eaf-d9f4-434c-a68d-69227b12b6a4" }, "composers": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:4d49cbca0b347e0a89047bb019d2779d", "name": "Matt Bellamy" } ], "genre": "Rock", "track_no": 1, "disc_no": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "length": 211121, "musicbrainz_id": "ff1e3e1a-f6e8-4692-b426-355880383bb6", "last_modified": 1672712949510 } } } }
{ "type": "status", "data": { "state": "playing", "current_track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "local:track:Various%20Artists%20-%202008%20-%20Twilight%20OST/01-muse-supermassive_black_hole.mp3", "name": "Supermassive Black Hole", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:250dd6551b66a58a6b4897aa697f200c", "name": "Muse", "musicbrainz_id": "9c9f1380-2516-4fc9-a3e6-f9f61941d090" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "uri": "local:album:md5:455343d54cdd89cb5a3b5ad537ea99d0", "name": "Twilight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:54e4db2d5624f80b0cc290346e696756", "name": "Various Artists", "musicbrainz_id": "89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377" } ], "num_tracks": 12, "num_discs": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "musicbrainz_id": "b4889eaf-d9f4-434c-a68d-69227b12b6a4" }, "composers": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:4d49cbca0b347e0a89047bb019d2779d", "name": "Matt Bellamy" } ], "genre": "Rock", "track_no": 1, "disc_no": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "length": 211121, "musicbrainz_id": "ff1e3e1a-f6e8-4692-b426-355880383bb6", "last_modified": 1672712949510 }, "time_position": 17031 } }
{ "type": "event", "event": "track_playback_paused", "data": { "tl_track": { "__model__": "TlTrack", "tlid": 14, "track": { "__model__": "Track", "uri": "local:track:Various%20Artists%20-%202008%20-%20Twilight%20OST/01-muse-supermassive_black_hole.mp3", "name": "Supermassive Black Hole", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:250dd6551b66a58a6b4897aa697f200c", "name": "Muse", "musicbrainz_id": "9c9f1380-2516-4fc9-a3e6-f9f61941d090" } ], "album": { "__model__": "Album", "uri": "local:album:md5:455343d54cdd89cb5a3b5ad537ea99d0", "name": "Twilight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "artists": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:54e4db2d5624f80b0cc290346e696756", "name": "Various Artists", "musicbrainz_id": "89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377" } ], "num_tracks": 12, "num_discs": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "musicbrainz_id": "b4889eaf-d9f4-434c-a68d-69227b12b6a4" }, "composers": [ { "__model__": "Artist", "uri": "local:artist:md5:4d49cbca0b347e0a89047bb019d2779d", "name": "Matt Bellamy" } ], "genre": "Rock", "track_no": 1, "disc_no": 1, "date": "2008-11-04", "length": 211121, "musicbrainz_id": "ff1e3e1a-f6e8-4692-b426-355880383bb6", "last_modified": 1672712949510 } }, "time_position": 67578 } }