![]() ![]() Users are then rated against eachother, you can upload and vote on artist pictures, build a library, play recommended music of genre tag radio stations, and much more. ![]() “Scrobble” is a term coined by the site to refer to a track play that has been captured by it’s software and added to your profile. But then, I like stuff like music charts and linking artists and genre tags. Sounds exhilarating, right? Sarcasm aside, Last.fm is one of the most interesting and interactive websites I’ve ever joined. Last.fm is a website that tracks your music-listening habits and forms charts of all that statistics. Well, I can help you get your problems solved!įirst, for those who are unfamiliar with Last.fm, allow me to sing it’s praises to enlighten you. Sign up for an Exist account to start tracking and understanding your users, have you ever found yourself reluctant to change your currently playing song because, eventhough you’ve lost desire to listen to the song, you still want your charts to pick up the scrobble? Or maybe you’ve wished you had a higher playcount for a particular artist that you love, to balance your charts between new and old favorites. You can find out if yours is one of them on the Does it scrobble? page. If we haven't included your favourite music app here, don't worry-over 600 apps connect to last.fm. The app can also use your phone's GPS to tell you about music events nearby, and in some countries you can access your last.fm personal radio stations as well. On Android you can download the last.fm app and scrobble tracks from any music player on most Android phones. You can also hit a button on the "now playing" screen to make last.fm play similar music to the current song. The app is free, though, and includes some extra features like automatic playlists based on artists in your last.fm account and extra details like which artists from your phone's music library are currently on tour. You'll need to listen via the scrobbler app to make your tracks count. Unfortunately, you can't scrobble tracks from the standard music player or other music apps like Spotify, as far as I can tell. The app lets you play your music library and scrobbles tracks to your account. On iOS, you can download the last.fm scrobbler app to scrobble tracks to your account. You can also see last.fm music recommendations inside Spotify: Once you're in, your songs from Spotify will be scrobbled to your last.fm account and will update your stats. When you add the last.fm app, you'll need to login to your last.fm account to enable scrobbling. ![]() Spotify has a built-in last.fm app, which you can find in the apps menu on desktop, or in the settings menu on mobile. If you listen to music on an iPod, those tracks will be scrobbled when you sync your iPod with iTunes. The app can also show you stats about your listening habits and your last.fm profile: In here, you'll find a menu option called "Scrobbling" where you can adjust your preferences. Once you've downloaded the app, sign in and open the settings/preferences menu. iTunesįor your iTunes tracks to scrobble to your last.fm profile, you'll need the last.fm desktop app. Then skip to the instructions for your music app below. When you're all setup, login and go to the scrobbling page on last.fm. If you don't have one already, set up a new last.fm account. Here's how to get your music app connected to last.fm: Set up a last.fm account Here are some of the correlations I have from my last.fm data: Then you can use Exist to get insights about your music listening habits and how listening to music affects your mood, your sleep patterns and your likelihood to exercise. Last.fm can connect to most major music apps, scrobbling (tracking) what you listen to with just a one-time setup. Far from leaving Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and other music app users out in the cold, this actually lets us get data from many more apps all in one go. ![]()
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