Back from a looooong break, i started up my last.fm player today looking for some new features to play with. i started off by creating a station with the tag audioslave (artist tag). the track like a stone came on - my favorite.
At the top of the last.fm player are 2 bars which look like a long progress bar. the top one states the current track the player is playing/scrobbling. the bar below talk about the station and the artist/song on which it is based.
A few seconds into the track, i noticed some activity in this top bar. at the same moment the track started playing, a blue progress bar started filling up the bar. a few seconds later the whole bar was blue, and then the words 'scrobbled' were flashed in the corner of the bar.
To sum it up, a track is scrobbled only after you listen to it for a few minutes/seconds. i will time this progress bar and get more info on it later. for now, i know that i have to actually listen to the track for a few seconds before it is scrobbled into my profile.
Update (March 12, 2008):
Link: http://www.last.fm/forum/34905/_/168133
The above link points to the fact that a track has to play for a predetermined amount of time, before it gets scrobbled and registered with the last.fm recommendation engine. though the source of this info cannot be validated, it is reassuring to know that someone else other than me has actually noticed this !!!!
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