Last.fm and Apple Music?

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet but the desktop last.fm app has always worked to scrobble tracks played on iOS. It just scrobbles them all when you sync the device to iTunes. For me this is more convenient than the scrobbling apps as they often seem to just stop working unless I constantly pull the apps back to the foreground. I still think the best solution is for enough people to voice demand for native last.fm integration into iOS and iTunes on OS X. With last.fm's new design, whether you like it or not, it may be getting more popular so this could become more feasible in the future.

For iOS devices Scrobber (by last.fm) works with songs added (not only downloaded) to your library in Apple Music. But the draw back you have to use scrobber as your music player, which isn't that bad. Try it out as a free workaround.

I just gave sssmusic for iOS a test. The app is a little clunky on iPad but the today widget scrobble is a nice feature. Unfortunately, as of now it does not scrobble any content played via Apple Music Radio stations. Yes, it works for everything else as far as I can tell. But it's still no solution to the overall problem of complete scrobbles of Apple Music.

I read the full thread and without any hope decided to download Bowtie for Mac and give it a shot. To my surprise it DOES seem to scrobble tracks played through iTunes radio (tested it with Jazz 'crooners and cocktails'). These tracks are definitely NOT in my library but they DO show up in my Last.fm profile.

Yes!

Like many here I've been using Bowtie to scrobble from Apple Music and have found that it works just fine with streamed tracks. It's an abandoned app (the developer went off to work for Apple I believe), which makes me a little unsure about it's utility as a long term solution, but for now it's fine.

FWIW I've found that version 1.4 actually works more reliably than 1.5 on both Yosemite and El Cap beta with almost no multiple scribbles (1.5 was routinely duplicating the same track 2, 3 and even 4 times when it had only been played once). If 1.5 is being buggy for you, I recommend rolling back to 1.4.

Longer term hopefully one of the developers behind some of the other scrobbling apps will step up and find a stable solution.

if iOS 9.1 ever gets a *censored by Apple*, I'll update my Google Music solution for Apple Music:

https://github.com/octalmage/lastgoogle

This app hooks into the native Google Music app and detects when songs are played, and logs the song and timestamp to a file. This would be easy to do with Apple Music too. This is the only way it's going to work unless:

• Apple adds native Last.fm support.
• Apple adds an API to retrieve information about your listening history.

I'm in the same boat as all of you. I have music logged since 2007 and I'm not ready to give this up. Thinking about using Spotify since I got a new iPhone and lost my *censored by Apple*.

Everyone should send Apple feedback here:

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

I "second" and "thrid" this. NepTunes is the way to go on OS X! https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/neptunes-minimalistic-last.fm/id1006739057?mt=12

I've been using the iPhone app CloudScrob for a while now because it's still in my opinion the best option to scrobble using iTunes Match. I suspect both iTunes Match and Apple Music are using the same kind of way to store the information about plays and stuff, so it should have no problem scrobbling with Apple Music.

http://cloudscrob.com/

Apple music has a gorgeous UI, and the fact that it is somewhat "cluttered" with new music vs. your exsiting collection can be overlooked. Since its launched, I've scoured the internet looking for ways to scrobble to last.fm and tried several apps but nothing has worked. This leads me to believe I will have to stick with what works and works very well: Spotify. I have 6 years of data in last.fm and I'm not about to sacrifice it for a service like Apple Music when Spotify suits my needs and does what it does flawlessly. This is disappointing bc I really want to love and use Apple Music.

I've been using iScrobbler on my Mac for ages and i think it does everything. Tried a random Apple Music Station and is catching the songs with no problem.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11273/iscrobbler

I'm testing it out now with newly saved (not local) music and QuietScrob. So far the first track wasn't captured but the second and third were... Success!

As an update, the latest version of Neptunes is out with full Apple Music support. Works like a charm for me with all streamed music.

I've been wondering this too. I would expect that Last.fm Scrobbler on desktop will still work, but really curious about iOS.

I've heard good things about QuietScrob - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quietscrob-background-last.fm/id741599377?mt=8 - but haven't tried it yet. Really curious if it will still work with the new Apple Music.

has anyone got any experience with Bowtie? It's a desktop app.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33474/bowtie

on a last.fm thread about this, Bowtie was presented as a solution. Will try out and let everyone know if it works.

On Spotify this has been possible since quite a while ago, which is why I fear that I need to stick with them instead of Apple Music. It is very important to me to be able to keep track of my listening and use Last.fm with my music listening services, and I believe (and hope) that I'm not the only one.

Yes, Spotify works well natively with last.fm, as does Mixcloud. But they seem to be the exceptions. Beyond that, getting streaming music to scrobble is usually a challenge.

You can give feedback to Apple at the iTunes Feedback page:

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