Lovely day

Done fixed

Currently non-Roman tracks/artists (e.g. Asian, Kyrillic, ...) are not correctly transmitted to last.fm.
It's only recognized as ??? :-( and it means also: tracks are not scrobbled

problem description

E.g. This track: ??? - Lovely Day is not yet listed as scrobbled though the scrobbler software seems to have sent it correct.
Perhaps due to Asian chars conversion problem? (in below log you can see the artist's name: 박신혜 appears 5 times)

• since other Asian artists get scrobbled: why not this one also?

e.g. Thái Hiền - Bóng Cũ Chiều Mưa got scrobbled

perhaps just a temporary display/cache problem on website, let's wait

• checked for general keywords like: error, fail

no appearance in log file in that time interval

other tracks with this problem

the artist name appeared as ?'s in scrobbler:

• Άννα Βισση - To Parelthon Mou
• Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков Procession of the Nobles

temporary solution

for last.fm's scrobbler

1. in scrobbler menu: Tools > Options > Connection > Bandwidth Usage

• clear cache +
• deactivate artist images + info downloading

if 1. does not help:
2. scrobble normally, BUT: don't open scrobbler's window

for other ways

• see section 2 (listen from other services + send data to last.fm) in: Scrobble specific tracks on last.fm

system info

• Last.fm scrobbler 1.5.4.26862
• Ubuntu (EN)
• played track: ??? - Lovely Day
  • which is actually: 박신혜 - Lovely Day (play history)

log file from scrobbler

<track>

<location>http://play.last.fm/user/5f6b6bf8c71cc3160c9c9f45ef57312f.mp3</location>

<title>Lovely Day</title>

<id>351871787</id>

<album>미남이시네요 OST</album>

<creator>박신혜</creator>

<duration>197000</duration>

<image>http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/39657327.png</image>

<lastfm:trackauth>b013b</lastfm:trackauth>

<lastfm:albumId>206301970</lastfm:albumId>

<lastfm:artistId>54650746</lastfm:artistId>

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/artistpage">http://www.last.fm/music/%EB%B0%95%EC%8B%A0%ED%98%9C</link>

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/albumpage">http://www.last.fm/music/%EB%B0%95%EC%8B%A0%ED%98%9C/%EB%AF%B8%EB%82%A8%EC%9D%B4%EC%8B%9C%EB%84%A4%EC%9A%94+$

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/trackpage">http://www.last.fm/music/%EB%B0%95%EC%8B%A0%ED%98%9C/_/Lovely+Day</link>

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/buyTrackURL"></link>

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/buyAlbumURL"></link>

<link rel="http://www.last.fm/freeTrackURL"></link>

</track>

[120127 19:35:40] doPlay()

AudioController requesting play of ??? ? Lovely Day

[120127 19:35:40] onTrackChanged()

Radio sending ??? ? Lovely Day to listener.

[120127 19:35:40] OnStart()92: L3

Starting new track '??? ? Lovely Day' Goal: 93

[120127 19:35:40] "120127 19:35:40" - "1911756640" - void ScrobblerManager::nowPlaying(const TrackInfo&) ( 155 ) - L4

"박신혜 – Lovely Day"

[120127 19:35:40] "120127 19:35:40" - "1911756640" - void Scrobbler::announce(const TrackInfo&) ( 646 ) - L4

"박신혜 – Lovely Day"

[120127 19:35:40] "120127 19:35:40" - "1911756640" - virtual void ArtistMetaDataRequest::start() ( 35 ) - L4

"박신혜"

[120127 19:35:40] onAppEvent()

Event::TrackChanged ??? ? Lovely Day 3:17

[120127 19:35:41] "120127 19:35:41" - "1911756640" - void Request::onSuccessPrivate(QByteArray) ( 182 ) - L4

"TrackMetaData" request succeeded

[120127 19:35:41] onAppEvent()

Event::TrackMetaDataAvailable ??? ? Lovely Day 3:17

[120127 19:37:14] onScrobbleTimeout()212: L3

Scrobblepoint reached for ??? ? Lovely Day

[120127 19:39:00] onTrackEnded()

Radio sending stop for ??? ? Lovely Day to listener.

[120127 19:39:00] "120127 19:39:00" - "1911756640" - void ScrobblerManager::scrobble(TrackInfo) ( 105 ) - L4

"박신혜 – Lovely Day"

[120127 19:39:00] "120127 19:39:00" - "1911756640" - int Scrobbler::submit(const ScrobbleCache&) ( 565 ) - L4

"??? – Lovely Day"

[120127 19:39:01] "120127 19:39:01" - "1911756640" - int ScrobbleCache::remove(const QList<TrackInfo>&) ( 422 ) - L4

Removing "??? – Lovely Day"

see also

• my Scrobbler: is unicoding al non roman script tiles and artists name (same issue? reported today)