Duplicate scrobbles through NepTunes and Eavescrob for iOS

[jbwharris]

I'm haven't really figured out which app causing this, but I thought I'd mention it since it really only started after the Catalina NepTunes update. I've been using NepTunes and Eavescrob for awhile and hadn't had any issues previous to the Catalina update. What happens is I'll listen to Apple Music on my iMac and those will scrobble as expected. Then about an hour later I'll get a notifications that "# tracks have been scrobbled to Last.fm in the background" and it's all the tracks I listened to on my iMac being scrobbled in duplicate. I know this is a really niche problem, but I thought I'd mention it all the same.

[fbracht]

I have the exact same problem, but Quietscrob on iOS.

I'm dying to find some Apple Music Last.fm scrobbler app that works across macOS and iOS/iPadOS. Since Neptunes is my favorite of the bunch and by far much more polished than everything I've found on iOS, I'd love it if it was upgraded in this direction.

[jbwharris]

I'm happy to see someone else is experiencing this. I've reached out to the devs of NepTunes and Eavescrob and heard absolutely nothing back, no acknowledgement of the issue at all. It's been driving me nuts. I feel like there needs to be an app for both macOS and iOS, which it doesn't seem like any of these scrobbling apps have.

[fbracht]

It's really bad. I've made it a weekly appointment to take an hour off of my day to dive into my last.fm scrobble history and manually remove duplicates — of which there are always dozens.

This looks like a bad combination of a problem that's apparently harder than it looks and less worthy of the effort than we would wish it was. Last.fm sadly had been incredibly incompetent in maintaining its relevance for music fans, to a point where I won't be at all surprised if they end up simply ending the service tomorrow.

But anyway, it looks like Apple Music keeps a centralized listening history record for your account regardless of where you did the listening. That's why sometimes one app taps into this centralized history and retroactively scrobbles stuff the other app has already scrobbled "live".

I hope this can be fixed, and I'd love it Neptunes was the one to do the fixing. I'd easily pay a monthly subscription for that solution.

[jbwharris]

I've now found I just need to let Eavescrob scrobble the tracks eventually. So not using a macOS scrobbler seems to sort this out. It's no longer instantaneous, but does seem to work.

[fbracht]

Can you be sure every track played on macOS eventually gets picked up by Eavescrob? I thought about going that way, but worried that some of the songs might get skipped. I already listen to less music than I wish I could, so it's important to me that every play is counted...

[jbwharris]

I'm still experimenting with it. I think it's still susceptible to the "if it's not in your library" problem that iOS has.

[fbracht]

Sure, I think this limitation is sadly inescapable. But outside of that, I wonder if it skips library tracks played on Mac. I think I'll give it a try....