Last.fm Scrobbler and firewall woes

November 25, 2008 6:06 AM

Is there a specific file in which the last.fm scrobbler caches scrobbled music which has not been uploaded? I am stuck behind a corporate firewall at work which prevents the last.fm scrobbler from uploading the tracks I've listened to. I'm not interested in bypassing the firewall at work but instead am wondering if it's possible instead to transfer a file to my home PC so that the cached tracks can be uploaded by the copy of the scrobbler running on that machine. Any thoughts appreciated.
posted by patricio to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Instead of playing through iTunes, can you just hook up your iPod to a set of speakers and play it that way? That's what I do at work and the iPod played tunes are scrobbled perfectly.
posted by banannafish at 6:14 AM on November 25, 2008

Response by poster: Sorry, should have added - I'm running Windows Media v.9 with all the tracks on a USB drive. I'm hoping I can copy a file to the USB drive, take it home and then get the scrobbler at home to do the upload.
posted by patricio at 6:18 AM on November 25, 2008

In the original version, back when it was called audioscrobbler, there was a dedicated log file. I have two plugin versions, one for iTunes, the other for Windows Media. I have an _audioscrobbler.log file residing in c:/ that stores handshake details and stores a cache of scrobbled tracks if it can't access the internet or can't handshake with the lastFM server. I also have an AudioScrobbler.log.txt file in program files/windows media player/plugins.

No idea how the modern version works with the dedicated software, they might have changed the way it operates. But search the c: drive for any file containing the word 'scrobble'.
posted by Beautiful Screaming Lady at 6:33 AM on November 25, 2008