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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Posted on Jun 30, 2015 12:00 PM

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.

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Jul 3, 2015 8:04 AM in response to badicek

I've tried Bowtie for OSX. Double and triple scrobbles are very common with it, so it's not really good, because to keep your stats the right way you will have to go to your page on last.fm and manually remove music you haven't actually listened to (same thing happens with the official last.fm scrobbler).


I'm going to try Melo and Muzzy now and see how well it goes.

Jul 24, 2015 4:06 AM in response to ch3v4li3r

Connect is similar to Last.FM's general website. However, Last.FM and AudioScrobbler merged years ago. Can you tell me where Apple Music is providing a scrobbling service? As far as I can tell, that does not exist. Many old time Last.FM users originally used AudioScrobbler and use it as a music archival system - not for the features added later on Last.FM or for the features "Connect" has that are similar to it. Unfortunately, Apple has not provided support for scrobbling and streaming but they should in the future because nothing they have is quite like it. But perhaps I am mistaken, so like I said above, where is the service on Apple for which scrobbling is direct competition?

Jul 8, 2015 5:30 AM in response to mlads

OH yes ! , I am sorry but I never tried radio . Well , if you catch a song , you can add it to my music and listen and remove it after a while , there is another app by the way - muz , and also groove player , but all I can see that my songs reach 'now playing' but never actually gets scrobbled. And more over . These apps must be open to scrobble , where as you can open wigdet form any app and it will not take more than 2 seconds to scrobble , sssmusic is not the best option , but it does the scrobble job right .

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