Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: Last.fm Scrobbling Broken for YT Music

[Izumemori]

OS:
Arch Linux

GPMDP Version:
Built from https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/commit/82c84871163e0949172e6dde7550f6844fb88749

Issue Descriptions:
Last.fm scrobbling seems to be broken, which is probably to be expected as the YT Music integration is still in alpha, just wanna give a heads up that this is an issue.
Scrobbling works fine in GPM mode.

The issue seems to be that the change:track event doesn't include a duration.
I've fixed this locally by waiting a few seconds before sending the nowplaying and pulling the time from the PlaybackApi instead.

Steps to Reproduce:
Switch to YT Music while having Last.fm authorized and play any song.

debug_info.zip

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[joshlebed]

@Izumemori do you think you could detail how you fixed the issue locally? I'd like to do the same but I'm not quite sure how. Thanks!

[lelukas]

yea, me too. describe it, please.

[restinginlove]

Yes, please describe how to fix! I've had to stop using it for YTM in the meantime.

[bellini666]

@Izumemori I'm also interested in knowing how did you workaround the issue

[mpgarate]

@Izumemori I am also interested in the local workaround. I tried to debug locally and have not been able to resolve.

[mpgarate]

I submitted this pull request with a proposed solution: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/pull/3476

[mpgarate]

@MarshallOfSound please let me know if there's anything further you recommend on the above PR.

[lelukas]

so? did the commit pass?

[mpgarate]

We are waiting for a code review and merge from the maintainer.

[rcp87]

Same problem with YouTube music here... Not scrobbling anything to lastfm. Google play backend works well, last stable version 4.6.1

[lelukas]

any news, guys?

[nayTuHbl4]

this is a problem because of which I do not use the program

[TiraelSedai]

@MarshallOfSound have you had a chance to look at @mpgarate 's PR?

[Landen13]

Want to start migrating my library to YT Music, but lack of lastfm scrobbling feature for YT Music is what stops me. Need this.

[restinginlove]

https://ytmdesktop.app/ has working last.fm intergration for anyone interested. And is just solid all around.

I've been using the official PWA for YTM with web scrobbler with good results for a while too. Bummer GPMDP's YTM integration isn't working.

[juliovedovatto]

Well it seems we can consider this project kinda "dead". Since author didn't make any considerable commits since last year, nor have accepted PRs.

Also: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/05/12/google-play-music-shut-down-how-transfer-tunes-youtube-music/3112297001/

Thanks for the tip @restinginlove, your recommendation worked really well with YT Music and Last.fm 👏🏻

@MarshallOfSound thanks for you efforts for such great player, I used over the years. But I think it is time to me to move on, since GPM will be killed soon.