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A **Client** is an application that stores the historical information about what songs you have played (scrobbles). Examples are **Maloja, Last.fm, Listenbrainz**...
## Clients
| Name | Now Playing |
| :-------------------------------------------------- | :---------- |
| [Last.fm](/configuration/clients/lastfm) | ✅ |
| [Listenbrainz](/configuration/clients/listenbrainz) | ✅ |
| [Koito](/configuration/clients/koito) | ❌ |
| [Maloja](/configuration/clients/maloja) | ❌ |
| [Rocksky](/configuration/clients/rocksky) | ❌ |
| [Teal.fm](/configuration/clients/tealfm) | ❌ |
## Features
### Dead Scrobbles
If multi-scrobbler is unable to submit a scrobble to a Client then it places the scrobble into a queue which is retried every 5 minutes for a number of times before it gives up.
After it stops _automatically_ retrying the scrobble still exists and can be retried from the dashboard. Dead scrobbles persist between restart so you will never lose a scrobble that hasn't been successfully submitted yet.
### Now Playing
Multi-scrobbler can report the currently **playing** tracks it is monitoring to some Scrobble Clients via their individual **Now Playing** functionality.
Now Playing is **default enabled** for all Clients that support it.
The behavior multi-scrobbler uses for determining Now Playing reporting:
* Now Playing can be explicitly enabled or disabled globally using ENV `NOW_PLAYING=true` or `NOW_PLAYING=false`
* This only affects Clients that don't have behavior set via File/AIO (below)
* Now Playing will be only be reported to the same Clients a Source is configured to scrobble to
* A Source's Player status must be **Playing**, IE **active**, for reporting to occur
* This status can be verified via Player UI on the Dashboard
* If multiple Sources having active Players then the scrobble Client will default to reporting the track based on Source **configuration** name, alphabetically
* This is the `name` property set in [File or AIO source configs](/configuration?configType=file#configuration-types)
Clients can customize the Now Playing behavior individually using [File or AIO source configs:](/configuration?configType=file#configuration-types)
```json5 title="CONFIG_DIR/lastfm.json"
[
{
"name": "myLastFmClient",
"configureAs": "client",
"data": {
// ...
},
"options": {
// disable or enable
//"nowPlaying": true
//
// OR define a list of Source *config* names that should be allowed to report Now Playing
// order of the list determines priority for reporting Now Playing
//"nowPlaying": ["mySpotify1","myJellyfin2"]
}
},
]
```