Radio Paradise Scrobbler

Radio Paradise is one of my favourite Internet radio stations, whether I am listening to it via my PC or via my Logik IR100 Reciva based Internet radio.

Radio Paradise is a popular and pioneering Internet radio station that defines itself as "eclectic online rock radio". The channel differs from most FM channels and other Internet stations in that the music played is not limited to any specific genre but instead represents great variety, much like my own listening tastes. Radio Paradise mostly plays different styles of pop and rock music, but occasionally also everything from jazz to classical to electronic music and world music.

I also am an avid fan of last.fm the music community website and have been scrobbling my listening habits for 4 years now. The problem with listening to Internet radio is that media players plugins won't scrobbled the track information, even if it is supplied in the stream, enter build.last.fm which I posted about a while ago, this is a site where developers can post utilities and applications that utilise the last.fm API.

One of these applications is a Radio Paradise Scrobbler which makes use of the extensive playlist information readily available on the Radio Paradise website to add to your listening data. It works pretty well, the only criticism is that it doesn't actually know if you are actually listening to the tracks, this is done independently of the application using the media player of your choice, it seems to simply monitors the playlist for changes whilst running and posts the data. So you will need to remember to close it when you aren't listening.

Last.fm client has not been submitting tracks for days

Just had a strange problem, the last.fm client has been merrily collating all the tracks I have listened to the last few days, but they haven't been showing up on my played list, the last tracks showing were submitted 5 days ago. The client updated itself this morning as well to version 1.5.0.24910

Checking the support forums it seems I haven't been the only one suffering this problem, and this posted solution seems a little strange but I can verify it worked, the official solutions that have been posted don't.

It appears that when the client is starting up (initiated by your media player starting) it doesn't always successfully connect to the servers correctly. If you click the Help and Check For Updates it reports an error about not being able to connect. Shut down the client and restart it and immediately it updates the list of the unsubmitted tracks. If you check for updates again, it will reports if it's up to date, or that it needs to update (this means the client is actually connecting to the server).

There definitely seems to a bug somewhere, and as it wasn't submitted tracks with the previous client it suggests a fault at the last.fm end.