Last.fm 'now playing' feature

[rock_dinosaur]

For many years, I've had my Last.fm account linked to my journal so that the music I'm listening to appears in the 'Music' box alongside the text-editing box as I type, and displays along with mood and location in the post. However, this feature hasn't been working for the past several months, and I'm wondering if it's just me (it usually is!), or

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[inchpinching]

I can't comment about the Last.fm syncing directly since I do not use it. But I always typed in my Music for entries. LJ entirely took away the Music segment and the ability to choose different user icons per entry. It's very disappointing.

[rock_dinosaur]

I still have the box for music on my post-editing page, which should be automatically populated by Last.fm, but I'm still using the oldest LiveJournal style. Are you using a newer version, by any chance?

I could type the music in myself, but that's not really the point. Last.fm is supposed to do it!

Every time changes are made to LiveJournal, they seem to do away with useful and even essential features. I don't get the point.

[steveshot]

Hi! I found this post via searching for how to post last.fm to journal entries like the good 'ole days.

I am using the oldest LiveJournal posting style (HTML) for it to populate. It appears to be hitting the webscrobbler API but erroring out as it states that it is missing a required parameter (error 6) when I look at the error via the inspector tab in devtools from Google Chrome (and following its link). It is unlikely they will fix it, as I remember they haven't fixed it for some time in previous years. Yes, I did add my last.fm username to my profile so it was pulling my username to the API call.

I do not think this will be fixed. Not sure what broke with it originally, but if there was a new parameter or new things needed for it to interface with the API, chances are they just simply didn't do the work to maintain this funtionality.

[rock_dinosaur]

I'm pretty frustrated and annoyed about this. I used the 'Now playing' feature on most of my own posts and also found it useful if I wanted to investigate to what my LJ friends were listening to. I contacted LJ support and asked if they were aware it wasn't working and when the Last.fm link was going to be repaired, and the response I received amounted to, 'This feature isn't working. You can enter your currently-playing music in the text-box yourself'. No explanation of why it isn't working or when (or if) it will be fixed. What use is a feature that doesn't work? I'm probably not as technically-minded as you are and I'm not sure whether the fault lies with LiveJournal, Last.fm or elsewhere, but I wish LiveJournal would ensure the site is maintained in full working order instead of fannying around with emojis and achievement tokens or whatever the latest pointless gimmick happens to be.

[steveshot]

Hi there!

Honestly it comes down to lj not wanting to do the work on their side of things to maintain the functionality for their users. I do not believe they will be working on this. I can also pester them about it, but I am now a free account, but for quite a few years I was a paid account, and quite active on this platform (especially before the 2010s and stayed on this platform often till about 2012 or so).

They are also lazy to not remove the call from the old HTML entry page. However, with that said, in programming the idea is to not to mess something up when it's already "working". In this case, the working is that HTML old style is mostly functioning (and I don't want them to get rid of that) for the most part, and removing that call may result in the HTML posting page needing further work - so like any corporate programming mindset, they just leave it be because of removing it takes work, and actually getting it to work takes work, sad to say. Like shifting sands, priorities in corporate programming seem to move and usually