Fuzzy search, album aware - Questions

[pankookis]

Hi,

Thank you for this script, it works great. I used it last week and it successfully populated my library with my scrobbles.

However, I have a few questions and issues about how tracks are matched, which I saw others mention as well.

Last week I used:

ENABLE_FUZZY_MATCHING=True
PLAYCOUNT_CONFLICT_RESOLUTION=ask
ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE=album_agnostic

This required several hours of manually selecting matches for many songs.
After finishing, I noticed that a lot of albums (live albums, bootlegs, compilations, etc.) ended up with hundreds of scrobbles even though I’ve never listened to them. The problem was that I couldn't see which album the script was assigning scrobbles to when I was asked to confirm matches.

Could an option be added to show the album the scrobbles belong to, and the album they will be assigned to?
As it works now, it's hard to see where the scrobbles are coming from or where they’re going.

Second question: Is it possible to consolidate scrobbles?
(e.g., multiple scrobbles of the same song from different albums on Last.fm being merged into one playcount)

Today I tried again on my backup database, this time with:

ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE=album_aware

But before even getting to album-aware prompts, I was still receiving the same fuzzy match questions as before, so I stopped and decided to ask here first.

Here’s an example:

Fuzzy match found for:
  Navidrome: Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone

  Potential matches in Last.fm:
  [1] Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone (5 scrobbles) (similarity: 100%)
  [2] Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone (1 scrobbles) (similarity: 100%)
  [3] Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone (1 scrobbles) (similarity: 100%)
  [4] Anna Ternheim - To Be Gone (2 scrobbles) (similarity: 100%)
  [0] None of these match (skip this track)

  → Select match [0-4]:

On Last.fm:

Scrobbles 9

| Track        | Album                                |
|--------------|---------------------------------------|
| To Be Gone   | Somebody Outside                      |
| To Be Gone   | Somebody Outside                      |
| To Be Gone   | Somebody Outside                      |
| To Be Gone   | Rolling Stone: New Noises, Volume 75  |
| To Be Gone   | Somebody Outside                      |
| To Be Gone   | Leaving on a Mayday                   |
| To Be Gone   | Halfway To Fivepoints                 |
| To Be Gone   | Somebody Outside                      |
| To Be Gone   | Halfway To Fivepoints                 |

All 9 scrobbles are the exact same song, but from different albums, presumably because of Spotify. If I view the track on Last.fm, it correctly shows 9 total plays, even though they’re split by album in the history.

Since this is essentially the same track across different albums, shouldn't this be handled automatically when using ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE=album_aware?

Finally, last time I ran this, I experienced the same issue: I got prompted repeatedly for the same song and kept pressing [1]. This caused scrobbles to be added to multiple albums like live versions and bootlegs. After the import, one artist ended up with 14,000 playcounts in Navidrome, even though the actual number on Last.fm is only about 5,000.

Thanks in advance for any clarification or improvements!

[VIVxID]

I was the one who requested those features for my specific use case, so I'll try to help you get the results you want.
If you want to skip as many prompts as possible and consolidate the play counts (which results in all instances of the track getting the same number of plays), you'll probably want to use these settings:

PLAYCOUNT_CONFLICT_RESOLUTION=lastfm
ENABLE_FUZZY_MATCHING=false
ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE=album_agnostic

This should always use the play counts on your Last.fm profile, always use the exact artist/title match for a track and give all copies of those tracks the same play count.

[zeroquinc]

Hey @pankookis,

Could you try the settings @VIVxID just commented? Let me know how it went and we will debug further. I'm a bit busy irl so I try to reply as soon as possible.

[pankookis]

@VIVxID @zeroquinc Thank you, I tried this yesterday. It works great for the example I mentioned (Anna Ternheim). My real problem is that I'd like a combo of the two ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE's. Not sure if that's even possible though.

I'll use a dummy example but I know I have many of these in my library.

On Last.fm

Scrobbles 9

| Track          | Album                                      | Length | 
|---------------|-------------------------------------------|--------|-----|
| Paradise City | Appetite for Destruction                 | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Appetite for Destruction                 | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Appetite for Destruction (Deluxe)        | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Appetite for Destruction (Japan reissue) | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Live Era '87-'93                         | 07:28  | Y   |
| Paradise City | Appetite for Destruction                 | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Live Era '87-'93                         | 07:28  | Y   |
| Paradise City | Greatest Hits                            | 05:00  | X   |
| Paradise City | Live Era '87-'93                         | 07:28  | Y

This is a common thing for me, many live albums and bootlegs. Many scrobbles of the album version with different tags. Not sure if Last.fm also scrobble the track length so it can consolidate all the album / "real" versions of songs and then use ALBUM_MATCHING_MODE=album_aware for songs that have non matching track length?

So with the dummy example above I would have:

GnR

Appetite for Destruction 9 scrobbles
Live Era '87-'93 9 scrobbles

When in an ideal world it would be:

GnR

Appetite for Destruction 7 scrobbles
Live Era '87-'93 2 scrobbles

Gonna try more settings but if I interpret the settings correctly this can't be done. Thanks

[VIVxID]

Yeah, it's either matching all albums or none. I have Last.fm Pro for this exact purpose, editing scrobbles to match what's in my library and keeping only a single instance of any unique version of a song.
In your example I would edit all the editions of "Appetite for Destruction" and "Greatest Hits" to be just the original release called "Appetite for Destruction", and keep the Live album as is.

Of course, this may not be an options if you want to keep a complete discography, including all release variants with duplicate songs, but that's what I do to keep my library clean with regards to play count.

Edit: I just realized this may be exactly what you meant. In that case you'll have to edit the scrobbles manually with Last.fm Pro to consolidate the play counts. Of course, make sure that the tags in your library are the same so the script can match them.