Re: [Banshee-List] Audioscrobbler upload failed - Last.FM

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 04/15/2012 05:20 PM, Phil Trimble wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm glad that we at least have a way for you to scrobble going forward!
>
> You are right, &, <, >, ', and " are reserved characters in XML since
> they are used in the syntax. The thing is that I thought that the
> XmlWriter class that Banshee uses would convert these into valid values
> when writing to the cache but it seems that either my assumption is
> incorrect or somehow it isn't being converted for another reason.

Maybe the class is supposed to do what you assumed, but it is a bug in 
Mono? Worth testing in .NET just in case.


> It seems to me that we need to add more robust error checking around the
> submission of tracks to the queue for Last.fm or at the very least in
> the Xml cache writing/loading process. Would it also be possible for you
> to attach a few examples of the weird entries in your
> audioscrobbler-queue.xml as well? This way we can be sure we will be
> catching all scenarios.

I'm lately thinking that in the same way we submit statistics of Banshee 
usage to a webservice, we should be submitting these kind of exceptions 
too, how about if we work towards that direction? See you on IRC ;)

	Andres

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