audioscrobbler fails to connect

[reacocard]

migrated from discussion on bug 406231

Info from Xancurius:
> GNU\Linux, Zenwalk 6.2, Exaile 0.3.0.2 built from source.
> No console output after "INFO : Attempting to connect to AudioScrobbler
> (http://post.audioscrobbler.com/)", no change in lastfm profile. Resetting
> Exaile settings makes no difference. user/pass are correct.
> "Finally, this bug is not only Exaile-specific, I've had the same issues with
> Amarok 2.x on my Ubuntu 9.04 distro."

[reacocard (reacocard)]

> Finally, this bug is not only Exaile-specific, I've had the
> same issues with Amarok 2.x on my Ubuntu 9.04 distro.
This implies its not necessarily something Exaile is doing wrong - it could be your network or internet connection is deficient in some manner, and this is causing the audioscrobbler plugin to fail. If possible, I would try to reproduce the problem with a different connection, preferably as direct a connection to the internet as possible.

[Xanuricus (aynuryanturin)]

This problem turned out to be independent of Exaile. Configuring the system clock with NTP seems to have resolved the issue. The console displays a 'track submitted successfully' message.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

Excellent, thanks for following up on this. We should probably figure out if there's a way to display this problem to the user, so I'm leaving the bug open for now.