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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 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" :-(

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.

mctape

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Jul 1, 2015 3:11 PM in response to jacek_zieba

./..

badicek

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Jul 1, 2015 3:25 PM in response to badicek

okay. it's laggy. worked pretty well for the first few songs.

jessesv

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Jul 2, 2015 9:39 AM in response to TheBiloi

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

bwally47

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Jul 2, 2015 2:11 PM in response to TheBiloi

Agree 100%.

Amnesi4c

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Jan 1, 2016 1:36 AM in response to AlexOscar

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.

Amnesi4c

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Jan 3, 2016 8:49 PM in response to ed2345

Provided feedback at that link, pretty sure it won't change things but just in case, you never know.

Jan 5, 2017 12:14 AM in response to MattF7272

I honestly think one of the reasons is "Last.fm" is a small site. I don't know how many users they have, but it's more popular outside USA (Brazilians seem to love the site). I've been on the site on two accounts since 11-12 years ago and the site have barely updated their features. It's a fun site, but how do you make money?

Sidenote, all music fans should check out Setlist.fm, a place to log all your concerts.

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

Dec 16, 2015 11:41 PM in response to octalmage

Like a lot of others, scrobbling is essential to me and a deal breaker when it comes to using a streaming service. I recently went back to an iPhone from Android, which allows third party scrobblers so I could scrobble pretty much from anything, but am becoming frustration as the limitations of scrobbling.

I am using Quietscrob to scrobble all my plays of my own music, but as I cannot scrobble from curated playlists, artist radio, etc, without the ballache of having to 'save' them first, I definately will not be paying for Apple Music when my trial expires (and indeed have hardly used it for the same reason, using it only on Sonos beta).

Rdio is the best at scrobbling, as it caches offline plays too, which Spotify has never seemed to be able to do, but with the impending closure of Rdio it seems Spotify is the only option for scrobble addicts on iOS.

One of the main reasons for me needing scrobbling is because I pull my plays from Last.fmm into Media Monkey to dynamically update playlists for my Sonos system, so if plays are not scrobbled my playlists become stagnant.

I don't understand why Apple, Google, Tidal, Deezer don't implement Last.fm scrobbling as an option. It's so easy for them to do it and requires no overheads for them, but adds a feature a lot of people want.

1stance

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Jan 7, 2017 8:50 AM in response to AlexOscar

A solution to scrobble any music source that is not supported by a scrobbler is ShazamScrobbler: http://shazamscrobbler.com

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