I’ve been using plexamp since it came out, and recently showed it to my wife. She loved the idea, so I set up a library with her music in it. Plexamp doesn’t have the concept of users though, so when I installed it I logged into plex using my email, and set it up to look at her library.
On the main plex server I have given last.fm access to scrobble my songs. This is obviously set at a server level. When my wife plays songs they appear in the history of all devices, and get scobbled to last.fm.
Is it possible to keep her history local to her device? I tried untoggling “Sync recent plays” under advanced setings, but that didn’t stop it (as an aside, what does that option do?). Is there any way of keeping her stuff local?
I hadn’t realised that there were user accounts in plexamp! Moved her over to hers this morning. Thanks.
I still have a couple of questions though. Scrobbling seems to be a server thing, not a user thing. The last.fm integration is at the account level, not the user level; so surely anything the server sees as “listened” will be scrobbled regardless of user? So this again leads to “Can I keep my wife’s listening local to the device?”
Secondly, more for my curiosity, what does the “Sync recent plays” toggle actually do an advanced settings?
While it is true that the server is handling the scrobbling, it still is distinguishing which user did the playing.
All playback activity of other users (which includes “managed” users) is not scrobbled to your last.fm account. So do at least create a managed user for your wife.
It’s keeping the last few items in Recent Plays in sync across several Plexamp instances (as long as they are signed into the same plex user account). So you can see your recent playbacks on your phone when you return home and open your desktop computer or use your tablet.
I’ve had a managed account for my wife for some time. This morning I went into plexamp on her phone, selected account, and switched to her user profile. I then played 3 songs on her phone and all of them appeared in my last.fm profile.
I had turned “Sync recent plays” off on her phone, after a couple of songs I put that back on. Immediately my phone (obviously logged in as me with my profile) showed me her songs in my history. I’ve now turned that setting back off on her phone.
The history isn’t a major problem, I (and she) can just ignore it. The scobbling is a pita. I don’t want extra scobbles, and I don’t want to have to disable it on plex.
You stated that the server distinguishes which user did the scobbling, but the last.fm integration is up at the overall account level. There is now way in the system to say this managed user is that last.fm account, and this other one doesn’t have a last.fm account. All plays through plex get scobbled irrespective of user.
There is no “overall account”. Even a managed user is a separate account.
That is intentionally so. But it is no indication that all playback by a managed users is to be scrobbled to the server admin’s account.
Did you put something into “List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth” in your server’s configuration?
If you did: clear that out, save, stop the server, start the server, and repeat the scrobbling test.
I’m obviously not being clear in my terms here. Apologies.
I have one account with plex themselves. This is my email address plus password. This is what I call the main account. It’s the thing I log into plex on a new device with. This is where last.fm is integrated. I access it via settings - account - other services where last.fm is a linked account. Linked to the “main account”
On the server itself I have an admin account for me and a managed account for my wife. (there are also a couple of managed accounts for the kids). That’s it. It’s a simple setup.
What I can’t see is any way to link the last.fm service to only the admin (my) plex account. It’s linked at the top level and scobbles everything the server plays to my last.fm account.
Maybe I’ve linked last.fm at the wrong place (not that I can see another way of doing it).
I’ve got nothing in “List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth”.
I understood you very well.
The linkage of the last.fm account is to your own, personal account.
The managed users are not supposed to scrobble to that last.fm account.
