![]() ![]() You can decide how long a song has to play to consider it scrobble-worthy and manually synchronize which players you want to scrobble from. The Android app also has more personalization features. Playing music on the iTunes app does not scrobble for you automatically. The player can detect music from your iTunes app, but scrobbling can only occur when the music is played off the Last.fm app. Due to reasons that probably have something to do with Apple’s compatibility, the Last.fm app for iOS comes with its own music player. The Android scrobbler syncs with most music players of today, if not there’s always the ScrobbleDroid app. There is an official Last.fm app for every OS (except, maybe Windows Phones, but we’ll get to that). And Last.fm’s tentacles reach deep into the world of smartphones. Suffice to say, if you’re an avid scrobbler, scrobbling from your phone is a must. The phone has become the next generation of MP3 player of sorts. If you’re using a media player not supported by the Last.fm plugin, well, as the Last.fm saying goes – If it doesn’t scrobble, it doesn’t count! So if you use Winamp, Media Monkey, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Songbird or VLC, the scrobbler will scrobble it all for you. We can’t speak for the out-of-the-way media players, but for the popular and functional standard players, however, the scrobbler plugin works like a charm. To find out if your favourite media player can scrobble, visit for the complete list of Last.fm scrobblers. Web browser-based scrobblers are useful for people who don’t rely on just one website to listen to music.įor the offline users, Last.fm has an easily accessible plugin for almost all conventional (and some unconventional) media players. If you use Firefox try Foxy Scrobbler from. Scroblr is also available for Safari users at. ![]() Install any of the plugins and let it scrobble for you from any of the supported websites in its list. Another lesser known plugin is Scroblr ( ). Simply go to and download the ‘Last.fm Scrobbler’ plugin. If you’re a die-hard Chrome user, life is much easier. Scrobbling complete.įor websites like YouTube and Soundcloud, one would need to find alternative routes to scrobble. Now everytime you play something on any of the linked websites, Last.fm will update your account with the data from said website. Sign into your respected profiles on other websites and link them to your new Last.fm ID. This will give you a list of pre-supported applications that support the scrobbler plugin by defaut. In your Last.fm homepage, go into Settings and check the ‘Applications’ tab. Websites like Spotify and 8tracks have built-in plugin-ins for Last.fm. If you’re the kind of person who relies on online players to stream their favourite music or to discover new music, then scrobbling is at your fingertips. Visit and create your own Last.fm profile. So here’s a quick refresher course on how to scrobble easily from wherever you are. For scrobbling your songs, the audioscrobbler plugin is available for over a hundred and fifty music players (both online and offline). Thus essentially catering to your own individual musical needs. Scrobbling involves taking songs played through your media player and filing away the required metadata to improve, and better tailor the songs that are played for you through Last.fm. Why not use the world’s largest music database to play your music? Yep, Buggles uses YouTube videos to play your library.įor those who came in late, Scrobbling was a term that originated with the UK-based music database Last.fm. The Buggles feature has now found a workaround. While Last.fm has primarily been known for playing audio tracks from various artists, regional restrictions don’t allow most music to be heard globally. Named after the 70s new wave/electronica duo ‘The Buggles’, the new Last.fm feature takes the song ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ to heart. Scrobbling has re-entered our radar with Last.fm’s newest project – Buggles. Yes, we are well aware that scrobbling has been around for the past decade.
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