mpdas loses tracks when submitting to last.fm about mpdas

[drook]

Unfortunately, github formatting ate some of the xml formatting stanzas, not sure how to fix the formatting.

Update: I fixed the formatting, sorry.

[hrkfdn]

I'm guessing you don't happen to live in the future? ;)
Ok, noted as well. Those definitely aren't correct timestamps (5:44:06pm on Sunday, 1. May, 3059).
Thanks, I'll check it out!

[drook]

Yeah, I did some basic digging - looks like when compiled without any optimizations mpdas gets more comprehensive errors: seems like for some reason the message that it's trying to send to the last.fm is empty. For example:

(18:14:05) [ERROR] Code: 6
(18:14:05) [ERROR] Error scrobbling. Trying again in 5 minutes.
(18:14:05) [ERROR] Re-Handshaking!
(18:14:05) [INFO] Last.fm handshake successful. SessionID: 0a61dcbebe1bfc28ace809fdcbe5ccfe
(18:16:38) [INFO] New song: Evol - Sorrow Of The Witch (Live Suicide Pub Venezia 2-11-95)
(18:16:39) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:19:05) [INFO] Scrobbling:  - 
(18:19:05) [ERROR] Last.fm returned an error while scrobbling:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<lfm status="failed">
<error code="6">
    Missing required parameter artist
</error>
</lfm>

(18:19:05) [ERROR] Code: 6

Tags are in place, of course.
However, I just don't understand how can this happen. The cache is filling:

> cat /home/emz/.mpdascache


0
0
1
Evol
The Awakening (Outro)
94
1404734739
Dies Irae
1
Evol
Witchlord (Bonus Track)
566
1404734833
Dies Irae
1
Evol
Sorrow Of The Witch (Live Suicide Pub Venezia 2-11-95)
329
1404735398
Dies Irae

[hrkfdn]

Thanks for the further input. Very odd. This is with GCC as the compiler, right?

[drook]

Yup:

# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: amd64-undermydesk-freebsd
Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]

[drook]

Funny thing. I decided to look what will happen if I will run the clang-compiled code without optimization. Removing optimizations also revealed some of the minor syntax-related errors that clang was complaining about. Fixinng them and removing -O2 optimization didn't bring it to life (was still crashing); however, after I recompiled mpdas with gcc (leaving changes intact) I got working scrobbler.

Patch: http://zhegan.in/files/mpdas.diff

[root@bsdrookie:work/mpdas-0.3.0]# ./mpdas -c /usr/local/etc/mpdasrc
(18:32:11) [INFO] Config file (/home/emz/.mpdasrc) does not exist or is not readable.
(18:32:11) [INFO] Connected to MPD.
(18:32:11) [INFO] Last.fm handshake successful. SessionID: 0a61dcbebe1bfc28ace809fdcbe5ccfe
(18:32:11) [INFO] New song: Evol - Portraits
(18:32:12) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:32:12) [INFO] Scrobbling: 0 - 1
(18:32:12) [INFO] Scrobbled successfully.
(18:34:34) [INFO] New song: Evol - Ancient Abbey
(18:34:34) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:37:35) [INFO] Scrobbling: Evol - Ancient Abbey
(18:37:36) [INFO] Scrobbled successfully.
(18:40:39) [INFO] New song: Evol - Inquisition Begins
(18:40:39) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:41:31) [INFO] Scrobbling: Evol - Inquisition Begins
(18:41:31) [INFO] Scrobbled successfully.
(18:42:23) [INFO] New song: Evol - Once Upon A Time...
(18:42:23) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:45:27) [INFO] Scrobbling: Evol - Once Upon A Time...
(18:45:28) [INFO] Scrobbled successfully.
(18:48:27) [INFO] New song: Evol - Il Principle di Anghista
(18:48:28) [INFO] Updated "Now Playing" status successfully.
(18:51:43) [INFO] Scrobbling: Evol - Il Principle di Anghista
(18:51:43) [INFO] Scrobbled successfully.

[drook]

"0 - 1" is probably from old cache file.

[hrkfdn]

Yea, the codebase is definitely in need of a major cleanup or even rewrite, something that's been on my list for a while.

[hrkfdn]

I'll close this one for now, as it could be related to #8.

Should the issue persist, please let me know.