The lastfm API gives different output if the user if user is scrobbling 'now playing; songs to lastfm.

When user is listening to he songs....
{
"artist":

{ "#text": "Cobalt", "mbid": "bb46448e-f7cd-4485-8048-3d1a5f7dcaa0" }

,
"name": "Animal Law",
"streamable": "0",
"mbid": "",
"album":

{ "#text": "Slow Forever", "mbid": "" }

,
"url": "http://www.last.fm/music/Cobalt/_/Animal+Law",
"image": [

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/34s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "small" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/64s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "medium" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/174s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "large" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "extralarge" }

],
"@attr":

{ "nowplaying": "true" }

},

OUTPUT when the user is NOT listening...

{
"artist":

{ "#text": "Cobalt", "mbid": "bb46448e-f7cd-4485-8048-3d1a5f7dcaa0" }

,
"name": "Hunt The Buffalo",
"streamable": "0",
"mbid": "",
"album":

{ "#text": "Slow Forever", "mbid": "" }

,
"url": "http://www.last.fm/music/Cobalt/_/Hunt+The+Buffalo",
"image": [

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/34s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "small" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/64s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "medium" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/174s/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "large" }

,

{ "#text": "http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/074ef8d4925358222a535e9139cb00b0.png", "size": "extralarge" }

],
"date":

{ "uts": "1458328641", "#text": "18 Mar 2016, 19:17" }

},

NOTICE the last values in the dict.