Amarok and Last.FM

The Last.FM plugin with Amarok in 12.1 (seemed to be the same in 11.4 as well), doesn’t ‘scrobble’. It gets similar artist data etc OK and shows the ‘Love’ button, but the played songs are uploaded (or aren’t accepted). There’s some stuff about using Kwallet or not, but I think that is out of date and doesn’t make any difference anyway.

Does it work for anyone else?

It didn’t work for me either - and I haven’t found a solution, apart from using another music player.

Currently I use ‘Tomahawk’ - which scrobbles just fine.

Seems there is still an issue with kwallet. I got scrobbling working using this tip: Amarok Last.fm integration | words.mixedbredie.net

  • Open ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc
  • Find the Last.fm plugin section
  • Add the following:
  • username=<yourlastfmusername>
  • password=<yourlastfmpassword>
  • ignoreWallet=true

It works OK for me by default, no need for any tweaking. Both the Packman version and the default OpenSusSE version of AmaroK works fine with scrobbling. Though, I do use the wallet.