Last.fm Import does not work for large libraries

[davidsmind]

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/blob/afc3effc9d6bcfec83f60e9b90bd55dbac14c672/src/scrobbler/lastfmscrobbler.cpp#L69C13-L69C28

A possible solution would be to allow the user to specify a last.fm api key, which they own, either manually (via an environment variable, config file or passed in argument) or via the ui.

Additionally, some more resilience (backoff logic) would allow large libraries to eventually successfully be fetched even with the shared application api key, even if it would be slower.

[davidsmind]

Ok, so I used a hex editor to change the api key and secret, still bails at around the same point . I suppose the page pulls are too agressive.

[jonaski]

Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to fix this feature in any good way as the API doesn't allow to filter by song, so we need to download all scrobble history which is very consuming. So I'm going to remove this feature.

[ddasilva]

Can you clarify what was removed? the entire feature of scrobbling songs, or just importing the play counts?

[jonaski]

Just the feature for importing play counts and last played

[ddasilva]

Thanks. I would recommend clarifying this in the release notes on the upgrade screen... right now it makes it sound like the whole feature was removed, which would be sad.
Cheers,
Daniel