The Audioscrobbler problem has been around for a long time. It's not an MC problem.
Generally speaking, there have been problem
s with this plug-in for a long time, everyone agrees on this. What I, and it seems many others have started seeing is a new specific problem since build 11.1.120 : never before have I seen my username and password being reset randomly (this is what causes a crash I had never seen before either), never before have I seen an audioscrobbler.ini file being created right on my desktop.
I sincerely do understand JRiver's point of view on this: JRiver is not the author of the plug-in, you shouldn't have to waste time fixing an issue that's not your responsibility. Fair enough. But "it's not an MC problem" is a bit of a stretch, because it really looks like recent changes in MC 11.1 caused, in part, the problem. What you could say is "we realize this is a problem for many MC users, but we consider this is not JRiver's problem". That'd be more accurate and users would feel less in the dark as to what to expect on this particular issue.