diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 6853d5ab..d7841635 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -37,3 +37,4 @@
 - Simon de Bakker <simon@simbits.nl>
 - Arnaud Barisain-Monrose <abarisain@gmail.com>
 - nathanharper <nathan.sam.harper@gmail.com>
+- Pierpaolo Frasa <pfrasa@smail.uni-koeln.de>
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 9f050f64..ea3af657 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ v0.18.2 (UNRELEASED)
 
 Bug fix release.
 
+- Fix the ``time_position`` field of the ``track_playback_ended`` event, which
+  has been always 0 since v0.18.0. This made scrobbles by Mopidy-Scrobbler not
+  be persisted by Last.fm, because Mopidy reported that you listened to 0
+  seconds of each track. (Fixes: :issue:`674`)
+
 - Fix the log setup so that it is possible to increase the amount of logging
   from a specific logger using the ``loglevels`` config section. (Fixes:
   :issue:`684`)
diff --git a/mopidy/core/playback.py b/mopidy/core/playback.py
index b2acb35a..3164e3b3 100644
--- a/mopidy/core/playback.py
+++ b/mopidy/core/playback.py
@@ -306,9 +306,10 @@ class PlaybackController(object):
         """
         if self.state != PlaybackState.STOPPED:
             backend = self._get_backend()
+            time_position_before_stop = self.time_position
             if not backend or backend.playback.stop().get():
                 self.state = PlaybackState.STOPPED
-                self._trigger_track_playback_ended()
+                self._trigger_track_playback_ended(time_position_before_stop)
         if clear_current_track:
             self.current_tl_track = None
 
@@ -336,13 +337,14 @@ class PlaybackController(object):
             'track_playback_started',
             tl_track=self.current_tl_track)
 
-    def _trigger_track_playback_ended(self):
+    def _trigger_track_playback_ended(self, time_position_before_stop):
         logger.debug('Triggering track playback ended event')
         if self.current_tl_track is None:
             return
         listener.CoreListener.send(
             'track_playback_ended',
-            tl_track=self.current_tl_track, time_position=self.time_position)
+            tl_track=self.current_tl_track,
+            time_position=time_position_before_stop)
 
     def _trigger_playback_state_changed(self, old_state, new_state):
         logger.debug('Triggering playback state change event')
diff --git a/mopidy/utils/log.py b/mopidy/utils/log.py
index 80bf3997..d106af8d 100644
--- a/mopidy/utils/log.py
+++ b/mopidy/utils/log.py
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ def setup_console_logging(config, verbosity_level):
     if verbosity_level > max(LOG_LEVELS.keys()):
         verbosity_level = max(LOG_LEVELS.keys())
 
-    verbosity_filter = VerbosityFilter(verbosity_level, config['loglevels'])
+    verbosity_filter = VerbosityFilter(
+        verbosity_level, config.get('loglevels', {}))
 
     if verbosity_level < 1:
         log_format = config['logging']['console_format']