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Can't scrobble a song with "Unknown Artist" as artist

Open Magikh42 opened this issue 10 months ago • 3 comments

Tried witth Spotify using Multi-Scrobbler and in the webadmin Exemple track: Unknown Artist - Who Got Me Workaround: In the webadmin replace "Unknown Artist" by another name like "(Unknown Artist)"

Magikh42 avatar Feb 10 '25 13:02 Magikh42

It's not well documented but in your settings.ini you should be able to set invalid_artists which should prevent maloja from using the default values that prevent Unknown Artist from being scrobbled.

invalid_artists = ["DefinitelyNotARealArtist","Spotify"]

FoxxMD avatar Feb 10 '25 14:02 FoxxMD

Thanks it solve the issue Shouldn't the default be an empty list, because Spotify uses "Unkown Artist" for tracks without credited artists

Magikh42 avatar Feb 14 '25 01:02 Magikh42

IMO Maloja should tolerate scrobbles of songs with no known artist. Currently, if all song artists (those extracted from the artist_name parameter) are also in the invalid_artists list, it returns a 500 internal error. Navidrome (for example) will then get stuck and keep sending the broken scrobble.

The easy workaround is to remove the offending unknown artist text from invalid_artists, as FoxxMD said.

lordkekz avatar Apr 27 '25 22:04 lordkekz