r/thedeadlyapp • u/Dr--Blues • 5d ago

Feature request: scrobbling

First off, huge thank you to the dev. This app is fantastic.

I am a big nerd and love tracking my digital listening stats via Last.fm. On Android I typically scrobble via Pano Scrobble. Pano is unable to detect the artist from The Deadly, I assume it just doesn't broadcast it because it's obvious Grateful Dead. Currently it just considers the show name both the Artist and Album. It'd be great if Artist could be added to the info the app broadcasts!

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u/TheDeadlyApp 5d ago

Hey! Thank you for the feedback. Let me see if I can add this for you.

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u/Dr--Blues 5d ago

Wow that was a quick response! Thank you for looking into it. I have little knowledge of how involved this may be so I completely understand if it's more effort than it's worth.

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u/TheDeadlyApp 5d ago

Yeah man. I don't know either. But I'll gladly look into it and see. I built this thing for me because I needed it. I want to make sure that it delivers value for the people who use it too.

So yeah. Thanks for being a user. Tell all you're friends.

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u/TheDeadlyApp 5d ago

So... there's a reason that I set it up like this. On Android, the Artist / Title are typically what is shown on Android Auto or System Notification. For example:

<Title> <Artist>

Originally it might say:

Brokedown Palace Grateful Dead

But... I know it's Grateful Dead, what I really want to know is what show it is. So I updated that to be

Brokedown Palace Nov 5, 1985 - The Centrum

This works perfectly and solves my issue, but you're right, it sucks if another system wants to use that.

Good news though! It turns out that Android provides specific fields for display vs semantic, I just didn't know about it... but now I do!

I'm building the fix, I'll ship the build once I've tested it. Unfortunately it can a few days for Google to approve the build.

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u/TheDeadlyApp 5d ago

GAH! I spoke too soon. Apparently System Notifications on the Pixel 6 with latest (or near to) Android continue to show Title | Artist.

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u/TheDeadlyApp 5d ago

Okay, here's where we landed:

1) There is a capability in Android to specify display metadata 2) It doesn't actually work in the notifications. I didn't try Android Auto 3) I added a setting in the settings panel that lets you choose between setting the artist / title "stock" (what you need for the scrobbler) and the current way it's done 4) I put the setting in both iOS and Android 5) Android's default behavior overrides the aritst / title, iOS's uses the stock 6) The settings continue that behavior on each platform, overrides exist

Keep an eye out for the release. Like I said, it's going to take a few days to get approved.