Something seems to be broken with either the Spotify web player and/or Chrome
rgoudie opened this issue · comments
I am posting my issue here instead of in the Bug section as the issue does not seem to be a Web Scrobbler issue, but rather a Spotify web player and/or Chrome issue.
Over the past few days, I have noticed that random songs are not being scrobbled. I investigated and noticed that the Spotify web player tab often doesn't update the currently-playing song unless I switch to the tab and I will then see the song update to what I am hearing. This issue implies that the Web Scrobbler plugin is not able to scrobble the song because the Spotify web player tab isn't always updating in real-time.
Even if I leave the Spotify web player tab as the selected tab, if I switch to a different program, which sends Chrome to the background, I will still notice that some songs are not being scrobbled. There does not seem to be any noticeable pattern to which songs are or are not scrobbled.
Question: Is anybody else noticing the same issue?
If so, does anybody have any ninja settings that I could change in Chrome?
I already have the Spotify web player URL (open.spotify.com) kept active in the Performance / Memory saver section.
Sounds like lazy loading of UI.
We might have to rewrite to find the information in javascript using inject script.
Tagging as bug, as while this is spotify behavior, this is generally something that we aim to not cause issues with web scrobbler, and several other connectors (like apple music) already have logic to scrobble correctly despite UI freezing when in background.