zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac

2.0.1    2026-10-02
Extend handling of NowPlaying for Stop/Pause on all use cases.
Fix console logging of per-scrobble Last.fm refusals within batches.
Fix parsing of local tracks without Artist field, to avoid NP dispatch.

2.0.0    2026-08-23
Replace JSON key scanners with a strict parser written from scratch.  
Make worker HTTP cancellable so exit doesn't block on a stalled socket.  
Detect and handle Last.fm per-track scrobble refusals of dispatched batches.  
Refresh pending metadata by queue entry id.  
Catch regex errors at match time.
Set the maximum daily scrobble submission budget to 900 from 2600.  

1.5.7    2026-08-01
Rework the logic behind the seekbar and scrobble eligibility.  
Pass musicbrainz_trackid through the TF pipeline.  

1.5.6    2026-07-20
Fix handling of eligible pending stream scrobbles at shutdown.

1.5.5    2026-07-07
Fix order of station title content parsing.  
Fix pause state from vetoing an eligible scrobble at track boundaries.  
Refresh FOO_SCROBBLER tag state on edits instead of polling every tick.  
Add option to hide the Playback Last.fm menu.  
Run Last.fm authentication off the main thread.  

1.5.4    2026-06-28
Apply Title Formatting scripts to streams like local files.
Keep short CJK stream titles from being filtered as station noise.

1.5.3    2026-06-21
Defer filtered dynamic tracks like local files.
Further separate dynamic and local tracker paths.  
Move shared tracker helpers into utilities.

1.5.2    2026-06-11
Extend validation for VA field values.
Defer tracks not in the library instead of rejecting them immediately.
Fix UTF-8 handling in station title heuristic.
Make exclusion substring matching Unicode-aware.

1.5.1    2026-06-01
Add an authentication status indicator to the Console tab in Preferences.
Disable the Dynamic sources combo box when “Scrobble only from media library” is enabled.
Fix Now Playing notifications being sent when scrobbling was resumed while playback was paused.

1.5.0    2026-05-28  
Replace the Advanced settings area with a Cocoa tabbed pane under Preferences → Tools → Foo Scrobbler.  
Add four Title Formatting exclusion filter templates.  
Clean up small repeated snippets of code related to retry behavior and scrobbling.  
Hold filtered tracks until they become eligible instead of dropping them immediately.  
Improve track metadata handling for local files and dynamic streams.  

1.1.2    2026-05-21    
Refresh edited playback metadata through the same filters before NP or queue updates for consistency.  
Fix Last.fm error 9 re-auth console spam.  
                       
1.1.1    2026-05-11    
Preserve order of TF input and TF exclusion filters.  
Improve batch scrobbling error logs.  
Use not-due scrobbles to fill batches for small queues.  

1.1.0    2026-05-08    
Update queue draining with Last.fm API 2.0 batch scrobbling support.  
Fix rare worker races that could cause busy spins and stale queue retries.  
Add exclusion filtering using foobar2000 Title Formatting.  
Add regex filtering support for albums.  
Drop support for the legacy v1.0.1 short-lived queue format.  
Ignore scrobbling and Now Playing according to the FOO_SCROBBLER tag flag.  
Replace Apple MD5 hashing with the SDK-native implementation.  
Update the universal build to use Apple Clang 21.  

1.0.9    2026-03-26    
Avoid reparsing the persisted scrobble queue on every access.  
Cache compiled Title Format scripts instead of rebuilding them during playback.  
Replace unsafe static locals in stream dedup with per-instance tracker state.  
Treat Last.fm back-end error 8 as temp, not having limited retries before discarding.  

1.0.7    2026-03-20    
Handle Last.fm rate-limit error 29 with queue cooldown.  
Added MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID in scrobbling and NP dispatch data.  
Merged NP code into WebAPI.  

1.0.6    2026-03-12    
Added support for foobar Title Formatting for input tags. Removed previous tag mapping.  

1.0.5    2026-03-07    
Added support for regular expressions (regex) to filter out submissions (Advanced prefs).  
Fixed: Unicode track titles, are now handled correctly for Now Playing and scrobbling.  
Language support increased from C++17 → 20.  
Switched to MIT License.  

1.0.2    2026-02-25    
Added tag mapping support (Advanced preferences).  
Discard queued scrobbles after 5 consecutive unclassified responses from Last.fm.   
Fixed: Minor bypass of daily queue drain limit.  
Changed: Small-queue cooldown ignore threshold reduced to 50 (from 100).  
Removed old queue-format compatibility (pre-AlbumArtist field).  

1.0.1    2026-02-08    
Fix: Include Album Artist in Now Playing and scrobble submissions (compilations support).  

1.0.0    2026-02-08    
Minor modifications to logging.  

0.9.9    2026-01-25    
Supporting dynamic sources like radio streams, etc.  

0.9.7    2026-01-08    
Improved Last.fm web client error handling.  

0.9.6    2026-01-04    
If a different user authenticates, the local scrobble cache is cleared.  
Controlling the submission rate of the local scrobble cache to meet Last.fm requirements.  
Fixed bug when authentication was not completed the first time and fbar restart was required.  
Refactored the internal thread system.  

0.9.5    2025-12-24    
Introduced new configuration fields in Preferences → Advanced → Tools → Foo Scrobbler.  
Added option to only scrobble tracks from the media library.  
Added option to set the console info level: none, basic or debug.  
Added option to disable NowPlaying notifications.  
                       
0.7.7    2025-12-15    
Fixed bug related to the behaviour while the user gets unauthenticated.  
Fixed policy issues related to disabling scrobbling.  

0.7.6    2025-12-14    
Removed rule about the seekbar moves at first half of track which were cancelling the scrobble.  
Fixed linear queue policy.  

0.7.5    2025-12-13    
Not considering candidate scrobbles with garbage tag entries.   
Added linear back-off retry strategy per scrobble for the queue.  
Improved internal design.

0.7.3    2025-12-07    
Improved management of the communication to Last.fm.  
Improved internal timing system according to specifications.  
When track tags change during playback, scrobbling will detect them and use the updated info.  
Seeking across the submission mark with the slider (e.g., 50%) doesn’t cheat the scrobble.  
Added option to enable/disable scrobbling while the user remains authenticated.  

0.7.0    2025-12-01    
Initial release.