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Plugins / Re: Now Playing to External Files

« on: September 14, 2020, 11:00:41 PM »

I'm making use of the Now Playing to External Files plugin to write the currently playing track info out to a text file.

Prior to MusicBee 3.3.7491 (the most recent release as of this writing), whenever musicbee was paused or stopped, this plugin would update the text file and "empty" it.  This behavior was useful to me, since I could (via scripts) take actions based on whether the file was populated with playing info or was empty.

After updating to the latest Musicbee, this empty-on-pause-or-stop longer happens, and the file is unchanged whenever MusicBee is paused or stopped - though the file is still emptied whenever MusicBee is closed.

I realize the plugin is no longer maintained, but the source for the plugin has been shared), so (long shot) maybe someone will know how to fix it?

(if you've read this far and are curious why I care - I use this plugin in conjunction with a crappy shell script I wrote to set my status in slack with what I'm listening to - and auto-clear said status when the nowplaying file is empty, i.e. I'm not listening).

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Questions / Re: play count sync from last.fm is incorrect for a single, specific track

« on: January 15, 2020, 02:56:36 AM »

"Hero Member" indeed.  Thank you frankz, that did fix it.

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Questions / play count sync from last.fm is incorrect for a single, specific track

« on: January 15, 2020, 12:19:19 AM »

So this is a strange one.

last.fm plugin is enabled, I have enabled the  "Synchronize Play Count" option.
By all appearances, this works!  However, one track (and only one track) is way off.

https://www.last.fm/music/The+Promise+Ring/_/Make+Me+A+Chevy

For some reason, the play count for this track (and only this track) is synced to be 57.  
last.fm reports my play count for this track as 6.
Every other track in my library (including all the other tracks on this same album) are correct and update as expected.

(I even pulled my entire play history from last.fm via the api and double-checked manually - 6 scrobbles.)

If I manually edit the play count in Musicbee and set it to 6, and then close/reopen, the value is updated to 57 again (which I guess is at least consistent with the checkbox / indicative that last.fm sync is to blame...)

Just before making this post, I even tried playing this track to see if I could get the count to increment, and it does.
After that most recent play, my "real" last.fm play count is now 7, but musicbee now thinks it is 58.

I recognize that this is a long shot, but anyone have any idea why this might be happening? 51 extra plays seems like a very odd thing indeed...