Last.fm and Apple Music?

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.

ccorrection to the above: scrobber will also scrobble if you leave it running in the background and play music directly from Apple Music.

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." 😟

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

OK guys, I have solution:

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

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

Thank you x10000 for saying this. Everything you said is spot on.

Agree 100%.

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.

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...

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.

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 .

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!

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?

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.

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.