Last.fm and Apple Music?

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. It should be clear that any scrobbling app (bowtie for desktop, cloudscrob for ios, or the default scrobbler apps by last.fm) will work to scrobble any tracks played from your library. Nothing ever stopped working.

The only thing that's not working is streaming curated playlists. People should stop saying "I've found a fix" in their confusion. There is no fix that anyone can provide for this but Apple. If you like a curated playlist, save it to your library, navigate to your own playlists and play it from there. Any tool you use will then scrobble the plays even if they are not downloaded, so long as they are playing from your library.

I would also disagree that switching back to Spotify is a meaningful solution unless scrobbling is top priority. Spotify has offered a stagnant user experience since it's inception. It's a pain to manage your library especially on the mobile app. It's especially difficult and near unreasonable to play your own files that spotify doesn't offer. The only way to do this is through shoddy workarounds like having them in a pinned playlist. I'd rather patronize a music streaming service that adopts everything users have ever wanted in one package and REQUEST that they add last.fm support.

I tried it and it looks like both CloudScrob and QuietScrob can only scrobble a song you have added to your library or have available in your iCloud library via iTunes Match. There is no native Last.FM scrobbling. I REALLY, REALLY want to have one app to use for my huge iTunes library and my streaming but scrobbling is a deal breaker. So looks like I will be sticking with Rdio. What a disappointment.

Well, the ordinary desktop scrobbler still works for local music, but switches off when streaming from Apple Music. It's the same deal breaker I've had with Google Music from the beginning, who also refuses to implement Last.fm. They really fail to see that there's more to Last.fm than just the community. For me the statistics is essential (11 years and counting), but also the discovery of new music from these 11 years of listening habits. Spotify (and also Wimp, TIDAL's original service - but not TIDAL itself, mysteriously) understands this and their discovery service works for me also. There's no clash between these things.

The only way Apple Music (and TIDAL) will scrobble, is through the Sonos app when this gets integrated. But in that case you have to be at home and have that system setup.

Weak, so utterly weak. Why haven't these giant companies understood that sharing and open services is the way of the future?

Last.fm replied directly to me via Facebook: "Hi, unfortunately Apple Music doesn't support Last.fm integration. We hope that Apple will add it in the future." 😟

Maybe someone will find some workaround, but QuietScrob only scrobbles music that's in your library. So, it will still work with music you own, and it will work with music that you stream if you first press the plus sign to add it to your music. If you don't add it to your music library first, though, QuietScrob doesn't pick it up. Maybe the app's creator (or the creator of one of the other similar apps) will figure out how to make it work with anything that you stream... It's still Apple Music's first day.

SOLVED (or possible solution for now)!!!

When plays music from "For me", "New", etc. the tracks are not scrobbled... but... if you add discs (or tracks) to "My Music" before play, and plays tracks in "My Music" tab, all are sucesfully scrobbled.

Y try with official Last.fm app, with Melo.app and Muzzy.app and always oks!

http://www.last.fm/user/rafaespada

iTunes 12.2.0.145 & OS X Yosemite 10.4

I just gave NepTunes a go and am seeing "Scrobbling now" active on my last.fm account, with all scrobbled songs appearing in my recent tracks list. This is while streaming from Apple Music in iTunes on my Mac. Having read this thread I'd earlier tried adding music from Apple Music to My Library and a couple of those showed up as I installed NepTunes. So at the moment it appears to be working. Hopefully it will continue to do so.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/neptunes-music-scrobbler/id1006739057?mt=12

@rafaespada That worked for me as well. On desktop OS X 10.10.3 and iTunes 12.2 with the official Last.fm app music would not scrobble when streaming directly form the artist/album/song page. However, once the music has been added to "My Music" and then played from "My Music" it scrobbles.

Thanks!!

it's working!

Just set up Bowtie and connect it to your last.fm profile and it scrobbles without any issues.

Doesn't work with Beats 1 Radio, but that's not my main point. So i'm totally okay with this.

these is an app called ' sssmusic ' , it can easily scrobble any song played by Apple music , no need to add or download the songs , and there are many scrobble options in settings, but P.S you must slide form top to open widget and leave it open till it says scrobble sucess...

Amnesi4c wrote:

I was ecstatic to see Apple music work in India, I chucked Spotify immediately but seems like I have to go back to Spotify now. Scrobbling is a DEALBREAKER! Apple please understand.

If you wish, you can provide feedback directly to Apple at this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

And of course, you do have the option of simply switching back to Spotify. Spotify offers native support for scrobbling, which Apple Music has so far declined to do.

I have found working solution → cloudscrob.com

OK guys, I have solution:

- OS X - Bowtie → http://mac.filehorse.com/download-bowtie/

- iOS - CloudScrob → http://cloudscrob.com

Those apps probably go through the list of all songs listed in your library see if it was recently played. It's probably going to work for music added for offline listening, but not for anything else streaming unless Apple adds Last.fm support (which they won't).

It's only scrobbling songs stored on my device and in Match. Song played with the new streaming feature aren't. Contacted the dev about this, he replied that he's gonna check if it's possible and if so he'll implement it.