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Last.fm and Apple Music?

I was wondering wether or not there is any info about possibly srobbling to Last.fm with Apple Music both in iTunes on OS X (or any OS for that matter) and Apple Music in iOS? As I use a MacBook Pro and an iPhone, Apples ecosystem is of greater importance to me.

For what I've understood, before Apple Music it has been only possible to scrobble with the help of Last.fm Scrobbler from iTunes on your computer, and I believe it hasn't been possible to link Music in iOS to make scrobbling possible. 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.

If someone has some insights about this, they would be highly appreciated.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jun 30, 2015 10:56 AM

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TheBiloi

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Posted on Jul 2, 2015 9:07 AM

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.

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Jul 1, 2015 2:37 AM in response to AlexOscar

I have found working solution → cloudscrob.com

Jul 1, 2015 2:45 AM in response to jacek_zieba

Cloudscrob has been proposed already. It's been tested and it turns out it only works for songs that have been added to your library. Anything your stream directly from Apple Music (from Radio, Playlist or Search results) won't be scrobbled to Last.fm, as (it appears) it doesn't log any information about play counts while only streaming.

I think JSt83 contacted the app developer (not sure if it's CloudScrob or QuietScrob), and he'll be looking into the issue, see if there's anything that can be done.

Jul 1, 2015 2:52 AM in response to ch3v4li3r

Hello, thanks for feedback!

I'm working on it and will try to add it (if possible)." - QuietScrob 🙂

rebolt

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Jul 1, 2015 3:57 AM in response to AlexOscar

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?

Jul 1, 2015 4:17 AM in response to AlexOscar

And for OSX iTunes 12.2? you know a app? I try with Last.fm original, with Mello.app and with Muzzy.app too, and nothing is "scrobbled" :-(

Jul 1, 2015 7:49 AM in response to AlexOscar

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

Jul 1, 2015 8:46 AM in response to rafaespada

@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!!

TheBiloi

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Jul 1, 2015 9:47 AM in response to AlexOscar

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.

Jul 1, 2015 12:59 PM in response to AlexOscar

The Only way to make it work is 'SmartPlayer'.

I tried and works fine when you play anything from Apple Music.

Just open SmartPlayer and apple music at the same time. it will starts to scrobble.

bwally47

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Jul 1, 2015 1:12 PM in response to killsting

Thank you @killsting! Finally something that works! I was getting annoyed.

Jul 1, 2015 1:37 PM in response to AlexOscar

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.