Scrobbling very short songs from Android

[nairobiny]

When scrobbling from the Android app works (which isn't always... see my other posting on this), I've found that with very short songs it always fails to scrobble them properly. It sends the initial "Successfully registered now playing", so it temporarily shows up in last.fm as 'Now listening to', but it seems to not send the subsequent "Successfully registered submission" in time. Accordingly, last.fm never records it as a completed listen and doesn't record it in your library.

This is with songs that are about 10s long.

[jaquense]

I would assume this "bug" corresponds to the fact that most scrobbling is doesn't occur till a few seconds into a song. as far as I know this is common practice to ensure that only songs you are actually listening to (as opposed to skipping quickly). Some scrobblers let you choose how long to wait till the song is scrobbled, Obviously the SS Android app is not that full featured :-/

[nairobiny]

Thanks for the reply. Actually my other scrobbling client also fails to scrobble short songs, which led me to search some more on the Internet. And, unfortunately, it seems to be a deliberate limitation of the last.fm scrobbling system - songs less than 30s don't get scrobbled

(e.g. http://www.last.fm/group/i+want+my+ultr ... +scrobbled! )