I\'m running the latest Version of Ubuntu Linux. I recently installed Amarok with the Gstreamer and Xine engines. I started using the Gstreamer engine but it wouldn\'t submit songs to my audioscrobbler profile (a message on my audioscrobbler page said something about a bad object).

I switched engines to Xine and it straight away started submitting the tracks without any problems. However, since a few days ago Amarok has failed to submit anything to audioscrobbler. There are no error messages on the audioscrobbler page and i was able to submit songs using winamp on a windows boot so the probem is definitely amarok. I don\'t recall changing any of the settings in amarok so i\'m at a loss as to what the issue is. Can anyone give me any help? or am I better off posting about this on the audioscrobbler forum?

Thanks for you time,

SomethingGood.

I\'m fairly new myself, but also use amarok (1.2.3) with audioscrobbler, and trying to figure out what\'s going on. For one thing, audioscrobbler seems extremely slow/overloaded, and there was a recent notice that they\'ve temporarily disabled signups to help resolve the overload.

That said, and while I\'ve yet to get any neighbors/recommendations, when the audioscrobbler server is accepting connections, I *do* get uploads from amaroK. I know that for a long time yesterday, the server wasn\'t accepting any new uploads.

One thing to check is the ~user/.kde/share/apps/amarok/submit.xml file, which seems to be the buffer for pending submissions. I notice this file grows for a while (especially while audioscrobbler is slow/down), then later disappears and things have been uploaded. So check this file. I haven\'t located an \"error log\" file myself yet.

I\'m still trying to figure out if audioscrobbler is more than a novel gimmick.

thanks for the quick response, i looked at the file and there\'s a few in the list but definitely not as many as i\'ve listened to since the last update. I\'ll scout around on the audioscrobbler forums to see if anyone else is having similar problems.

I\'ve recently got into Last.FM and thence to audioscrobbler, which led me to install amarok (tempted by the built in scrobbler function rather than having to download development libraries to roll one for XMMS).

I like a lot of things about amarok but have found submissions to be a bit flaky. It seems to submit about two minutes into a track and want to have the focus or at least be open on the current desktop. This is using amarok 1.2.3 under Ubuntu 05.04 (Hoary) with an XFCE desktop.

Wulf

Well, not submitting until two minutes into a track is per the specs. I\'ll try to reproduce the not-submit-on-minimize.

I\'m not 100% sure about the the behaviour re. submitting when not in focus or minimised. Are there log files I could monitor to get an idea of what amarok is trying to do? Figuring it out by watching what actually does get sumitted to audioscrobbler is a bit tricky (and also assumes their servers are working without problems).

Wulf

Well, can\'t be reproduced here. I run roK minimized (in system tray) almost constantly except occasional adjustments to the playlist.

All AS submissions go through fine. I\'ve watched them update on last.fm regularly without popping roK open.

There are periods of minutes or sometimes hours that last.fm won\'t accept submissions and they get cached. But that\'s a last.fm issue affecting everyone, not just roK users. It happens quite regularly for short or long periods. That\'s most likely what\'s happening.

Wulf upgrade to latest version, the 1.2.x series detected false seeks and didn\'t submit all tracks as it should. This got fixed in the 1.3 betas if i remember correctly.

I\'m going to wait until the next version of Ubuntu is released, which is due to have a 1.3 series version of amarok. I\'ll see how it works out then.

Wulf