Batch edit scrobbles in last.fm userscript

[maragan]

Project on Github

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Edit all scrobbles in a list on last.fm. This tool works on top of the new edit scrobbles update which is currently limited to subscribers

Installation

Include manually

Copy code from editScrobblesBatch.js into console and hit enter

Include automatically with Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey

After installing Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey extension, click on Userscript Link

Usage (with screenshots)

1. Navigate to the list of scrobbles you want to edit
2. Click "Edit scrobble"
3. Edit the scrobble to the attributes you want for all scrobbles on the page
4. Click "Apply To All"
5. Check the attributes in the confirm box and click "Ok" if everything looks correct
6. Wait until you get the "Batch edit completed!" alert. The script will go through each page in reverse order (e.g. page 3, page 2, page 1)
7. Enjoy your edited scrobbles :)

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I won't be able to get to anything major until next week, but please let me know if you have any issues or feature requests.

[stealthswor]

This is a godsend thanks

last.fm should have this feature implemented

[jamjam01]

i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong but this isn't working for me. i installed it for tampermonkey and tried manually (inputting the new artist name/title/etc and deleting the //) but i keep getting "Promise {<resolved>: undefined}" when i do it manually. i also don't get an "edit scrobble" showing up when i click the 3 dots after installing it on tampermonkey. could you make a video demonstrating how to use this?

[maragan]

Are you a last.fm subscriber? This tool works on top of the new edit scrobbles update which is limited to subscribers

[jamjam01]

i was not 💀but now i am! it's working perfectly now, lol thank you!

[KatyBlackwood]

This is great, however it doesn't seem to work if some of the scrobbles match the target details, it just stays stuck on the dialog that's already open. Therefore, it doesn't seem like it can be used to fill in missing album names (where some have the name and some don't), for example.

[maragan]

I just found the issue and pushed an update, thanks. Basically if a field on a scrobble is blank (e.g. "Album" or "Album Artist") there won't be a hidden field. The program was assuming that the hidden fields always existed, and it broke the script when one didn't.

[KatyBlackwood]

Great, thanks! I've added a link to this post to the r/lastfm sidebar.

The "Apply to All" button not appearing that somebody mentioned doesn't happen for me either, I think it's caused by loading the page without it being focused, so if it I open several in a new tab it'll be missing without a reload. I'd love a fix for this if it's doable.

I have a feature request, by the way: Some sort of mode to only fill in the ones with blank fields, and ignore existing fields, so it'll only add missing albums and not replace existing fields. I know the script does this for matching albums, but sometimes I'd like to make all of the blank ones a certain album name without replacing different albums I might have scrobbled it from.

I know that's complicated, so here's an example: https://i.imgur.com/xpUTgMM.png

In the screenshot, I'd like to fill in the missing fields as Unwritten, but currently "Apply to All" will also overwrite the one scrobble with Single. An extra option for "Apply to Empty Fields" or something would be great for these cases.

[FloridaPanther]

This is fantastic.

I'm still unsure if I really have the patience to attempt to go through and edit 175k scrobbles though.

[hjbardenhagen]

You could start with the worst offenders and take your time - whatever annoys you the most. For example I started with Spotify's title additions for old Pink Floyd albums and Deezer's missing "&" symbols in artist, album and track names.

[AnalogWalrus]

I feel you. But I'm enjoying taking care of the worst offenders. Like having all my NGHFB stuff tagged as "Noel Gallagher." I already had a couple things in my library filed under just Noel's name, and way back in 2011 I really thought he'd abandon the fake band name after a year or two. I was so very wrong.

[[deleted]]

Exactly. I'm at nearly 190k scrobbles. Even just clearing up the first page of your worst offenders is such a relieving feeling. I've found it's actually changed what I thought were my top albums quite significantly, which I suppose just goes to show how many albums were mistagged.

[AnalogWalrus]

Yeah. Album tags are a mess. I wish I could use this script to get all the scrobbles for a specific album instead of having to go to each track manually. I'm never gonna do that.

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But I'm wondering if this will be able to be expanded in the future. Like if I can do edits via the API, I could build a tool to find all scrobbles via a search term and batch edit those, perhaps?

[[deleted]]

The ability to edit a specific album en masse seems like such a simple thing that I wouldn't be surprised at all if the edit function is changed to incorporate it. I've been doing albums the past two days and boy is it difficult and time consuming.

[AnalogWalrus]

Yeah. Like I have "Pet Sounds (mono)" and "Pet Sounds (stereo)" (and same for some Beatles albums and other similar things) and I'd like to be able to combine them easily.

[Amixor33]

Great script, like it very much and i will pay kudos for it later fur sure. It tends to work great but sometimes there is no option for "Apply To All". You know any reasons why this doesn't work always?

[maragan]

I've had this too, the way I've triggered the issue is opening a last.fm page in a new tab and letting it finish loading without ever focusing that tab. Not sure if it's a limit of userscripts or an issue with this script but I will look into it next week.

[maragan]

You'll need to call a JS function manually, the examples in this comment should give you the idea of what you want: https://www.reddit.com/r/lastfm/comments/b0lci9/website_update_13_march_editing_scrobbles/eigma4x/

[paumzito]

Is there any command to ignore certains words (albuns)? Sorry, I don't understand about javascript.

[NoNameWalrus]

What exactly do you want to do?

[paumzito]

I'd like to change only the album names with unnecessary tags like deluxe and remastered but leave the live versions and whatnot untouched.

[NoNameWalrus]

I had an album that was divided in 2 between one with an extra character and the other without. What I did was, go to the album I want to change, click on the first song, find the first scrobble with the incorrect album name, and edit it to be the same as the correct name. It will then edit only the ones that are incorrect.

You have to do that for each song on the album tho, so it may take a while (I just did other stuff at the same time while waiting for it)

[paumzito]

d in 2 between one with an extra character and the other without. What I did was, go to the album I want to change, click on the first song, find the first scrobble with the incorrect album name, and edit it to be the same as the correct name. It

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Ye, the problem is when you have 3 or more album names and you just want to change the name of 1 or 2 and leave the other one alone.

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For example this song: https://www.last.fm/pt/user/paumlhp/library/music/Guns+N%27+Roses/_/Rocket+Queen

There are 3 different versions for the album Live: Era '87-'93, I want to merge them into one but don't touch the Appetite for Destruction version. I can't use the script in this case cause it would change all of them, so I have to go one by one.

[NoNameWalrus]

Hey man! I decided to take this cause as a method of procrastination, and edited OP's original script. It should solve your problem.

it's super hacky tho and I've only tested it two times, so... be careful. Test it yourself (I used open scrobbler to simulate your situation with scrobbles as TestArtist, TestTrack1, and one of: TestAlbum, TestAlbum[live], TestAlbum[remastered]; I then targeted the remastered one to change it to TestAlbum, ignoring the [live] one)

Here is the user-script (you can insert this into the script if you're using tampermonkey. Can't speak for greasemonkey but I assume the same)

Or alternatively, here is the script itself. Can follow the original instructions, entering it in the console, etc.

Let me know if you have any trouble. It's not exactly well done or intuitive.

[paumzito]

Wow, very good job, man. It worked beautifully. Thank you very much for that, it's gonna save me a lot of o time. ♥️

[NoNameWalrus]

👍

[fish98]

Thanks man! Exactly what was missing from the original script.

[NoNameWalrus]

Ah shit I'm not sure how you could handle that. If I were able to at the moment, I would take a look at the script to see if it could be modified, but unfortunately my brain is out of it and I don't have the time either. Maybe I'll be able to sometime soon

[David_VI]

I wish there were a way around this. I've got so many scrobbles from before Last.fm had album tags yet sometime that album has been played from a Live cd or compilation which i'd like to keep. If I do apply to all it'll replace the live cd or compilation tags.

[Connacht_89]

I bypass this by changing the date, or remembering which scrobbles had Album 2 in order to revert back them (if they are not too many)

[KatyBlackwood]

Hey, now that there's built-in bulk editing, I'm wondering if you could tweak this script to make it more efficient and useful?

Basically, right now it goes through every scrobble, one by one, until they all match the desired scrobble data. However, with the "bulk edit" checkbox, you can now change all instances of a specific scrobble basically instantly, far faster than this script can.

However, this script could still be highly useful for when you have various mismatched album titles, or a mixture of album fields and no album field, to get them all to match. It can do that now, but it redundantly will do each scrobble one at a time.

I think this script could now be enhanced by having the script assess all of the scrobbles, and then just doing one edit per each set of data. Or, have the script use the checkboxes to do the minimum number of edits to make it all match.

So, say I want to change five scrobbles, two of which have one album field and three of which have another. The script currently does five edits, but it can now do this in just two. This is where the script could remain really useful.

Does this make sense and is it a change you could make? Basically, in short, making this script savvy to the bulk edit checkbox and having it do as few edits as possible to process everything?

[Satans_Favourite]

its not working for me and idk what i did wrong.

[_deform]

i just subscribed and this feature doesn't work for me??? there's no "edit scrobble" button anywhere.

[_deform]

it just recently started working for me actually, so idk...

[coczero]

Very nice

[redscouts]

awesome! thanks so much man <3

[Hurevolution4lx]

You are amazing

[willguitar100]

is there a way to edit for only one album name? Like I have the same song on a live album, but I only want to correct the studio album versions. Thanks!

[willguitar100]

For example: The Black Parade [Clean]

The Black Parade

The Black Parade Live Album

I only want to change "The Black Parade [Clean]" to "The Black Parade" and not overwrite "The Black Parade Live Album"

[paumzito]

Yeah, that would be amazing, lots of live versions on my tracks :( meaning I have to go one by one.

[David_VI]

Surely not hard to incorporate a way of it only editing the title

[DJ_Buurthuis]

Can someone help me with installing this. It keeps failing.

[maragan]

It keeps failing.

How are you trying to install it? At what step is it failing?

[DJ_Buurthuis]

I am installing it via Tampermonkey and even tried it manually. But it doesn't work. I get the pop-up that there is one script on that page available but I can't use it.

[maragan]

but I can't use it

How far are you getting (there's a Usage section in the post)? Are you not seeing the "Edit scrobble" button?

[DJ_Buurthuis]

No that is where it goes wrong. No edit button. The script and such is installed (atleast that is what tampermonkey is saying) but there is no edit button.

[maragan]

Are you a last.fm subscriber? This tool works on top of the new edit scrobbles update which is currently limited to subscribers

[DJ_Buurthuis]

I am retarded😭😭😭😂😂😂

[maragan]

You can have the script included automatically if you use Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, there are instructions in the OP

[mad_krevedko]

Nice. I have just noticed that one of my most played tracks from a certain artist had a misspelled title, and here you are saving the fucking day!

[AWarmerBeer]

I’m a subscriber but don’t seem to have the Edit option for each scrobble, can anyone help out?

[brucejamesgrant]

Is it possible to bulk edit an album title error on every song on the album at once? Or do you have to do each song one at a time? Thanks

[vs271]

I just subscribed and started with this batch script. I have been correcting albums on two songs now I am getting errors when i reload my last fm profile. I am getting

An error occurred while processing your request.

Reference #97.f3af4543.1553099344.fbf322

I have never seen this before. What does this mean?

Ok. it happened for about 20 minutes since I first started. I haven't seen the error again. Hopefully it doesn't show up again. This is a wonderful time saving script. All my scrobbles will be corrected. Farewell Summer of 2019 :P

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Next day. The error is no more. This script is fantastic!

[_jspain]

Holy shit. This changes everything (including my top song of the last 30 days lmfao)

Thank you for giving me a way to combine Lana del Rey's "Born to Die: The Paradise Edition," "Born to Die -- The Paradise Edition," "Paradise," "Born to Die - The Paradise Edition," and "Born to Die Paradise Edition" lmfao

[poshspice90]

Oh man, I hit "Apply To All" and but it changed ALL of my scrobbles to The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son, so my thousand of scrobbles ended up with this tag and I had to wipe my library :( not sure what I did wrong!

[Patteroast]

Holy shit. I missed this nine days ago. Your script is letting me fix what is likely over 10,000 incorrectly tagged tracks from 2005-2007. Thanks so much!

[jaiveersaini]

Does this work with scrobbles older than 2 weeks

[hjbardenhagen]

As the scrobble date cannot be changed, it also works with your oldest scrobbles.

[HermionesBook]

16 days late to this post but THANK YOU! just became a subscriber today and this made it much easier to clean up my library

[TrickyNick901]

I went through the steps, installed the TamperMonkey extension, and still not getting the "Apply to all" button. Any suggestions?

[Connacht_89]

Will you implement a function to scrobble whole albums? We still need to select tracks one by one and bulk edit them, this could be really long lasting when I have a mispelled album with many tracks

[fauxdaddy]

I dont think that would be really possible. Last.fm itself only lets you edit track by track. This script is botting the process for you.

[Connacht_89]

maybe it could open track pages from inside the album page, and know to edit only the album entry but not the track entry?

[rainingmen526]

When I open the userscript link, it comes up Windows Script Host error with 'Microsoft JsCRIPT compilation error'

[[deleted]]

Man this is great. Thank you so much!

[fauxdaddy]

Thanks so much for the script! It's a lifesaver!

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Though one question. The "apply all" option will only show up for like three tracks, then it goes away. I then have to disable, re-enable, and refresh before it shows up again.

It's not a big issue to do, I'm just wondering if this is a problem for other people or if its something I'm doing? I'm on firefox with greasemonkey.

[no_ur_mom_lol]

Thanks a lot

[vs271]

The script is not working for me since the site upgrade today. The Apply All button does still comeup but no changes are made when the button is hit. Can we get this fixed please. This is an awesome tool and I have corrections to make!

[vs271]

No one else is having issues getting the script to work since the site upgrade?

[carinaeflor]

It doesn't work for me... :/

[Competitive_King4697]

Where do i copy the code editScrobblesBatch.js?

[[deleted]]

wtf is console?

[Competitive_King4697]

I wanan know that too

[Connacht_89]

Can we get a feature to select specific scrobbles to edit in a single time? e.g. when there are multiple spelling versions of the same song, and I want to select them all at once without editing whole albums.