I’ve made a Last.fm API key but at the point of adding it to Navidrome I wondered why I was bothering; is this option only there because of backwards compatibility or is there a tangible benefit?

  • tempo
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    11 months ago

    I’m not certain but it could be used for album art, album description info and for last.fm scrobbling, according to the documentation.

    • Deebster@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yes, that’s why there’s a Last.fm API key, but that and scrobbling work out of the box with the default key. So, is there any reason to replace it with a personal one?

      • tempo
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’m just guessing so your scrobbling can be associated with you. I can’t think of any other reason right now.

        • Deebster@programming.devOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Scrobbling’s set up per-user using OAuth in the browser, which is better since different users can scrobble to different accounts.

          I’m guessing it’s left in because why remove it since it’s working, and it would be useful if the default API key stopped working.