Last.fm

No issues here (from the spotify web player)

I went to last.fm > settings > applications and disconnected and reconnected the spotify scrobbler and it's working now

Yeah, done the same and seems ok now.

it hasn't scrobbled from iTunes for years now, is that true for anyone else?

I've been using Neptunes for years and it still scrobbling along...
https://micropixels.software/neptunes

For ITunes, mine was down for a while but I updated the scrobbler app and it’s fine again.

As someone in his thirties, I find scrobbling a lonely endeavour these days. All the real-life acquaintances I had friended on Last.fm 10–15 years ago no longer scrobble due to changes in how they listen to music, or they got married and started families which dampened their time and interest in seeking out new music. I feel like the last living member of a tribe.

Looking around to see if strangers out there share my tastes is no longer rewarding: apparently challenged by the sheer bulk of music available to anyone nowadays, which means two people’s listening is even less likely to overlap than before, Last.fm has changed its compatibility algorithm. The way Last.fm tries to drive up website engagement by being too optimistic feels slimy and dishonest: now I’m seeing “Your compatibility with X is Super” even when we just share a small handful of common artists, and they aren’t even close to my most-listened artists.

it's all true but I love it. so much hot listening data! a last.fm revival wld be good, tho I am used to music being a lonely/online endeavour

I agree with both of these takes. Last.fm still feels like a superpower I wished was available when I was ten, and every time this thread gets bumped I'm terrified it's going to go away. It would be so lovely if someone gave it a revamp though...so much of that wonderful data is languishing inside the clunkiest interface.

erstwhile ilx0rs like electricsound and stevem are still listening to 1000 tracks a week -- helps me maintain faith

Been Scrobbling for nearly 15 years and still have no idea why I like it

Yeah. Big fan too. Can we do more ourselves as a community?

would be cool, im still scrobblin away

Still scrobbling here too. 16 years' of data

Mostly listen to vinyl at home, but still scrobbling strong at work and on the go.

Times have changes a lot since '07...
I still discover new stuff via a handful of fellow listeners I trust.

what would I do without last.fm? I mean how would I know what my top 20 tracks of the last 90 days are?

btw they are

1. Los Tucanes de Tijuana - La Chona (9)
2. X - In This House That I Call Home (9)
3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (8)
4. Olivia Kaplan - Barely Above (8)
5. Neil Hamburger - Three Piece Chicken Dinner (7)
6. Novos Baianos - Preta Pretinha (7)
7. Texas Tornados - Hey Baby Que Paso (7)
8. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee (7)
9. Wire - The 15th (7)
10. Cate le Bon - Cyrk (6)
11. D Train - Keep On (12" Remix) (6)
12. Jackie Lynn - Casino Queen (6)
13. Mission of Burma - All World Cowboy Romance (6)
14. Nap Eyes - Mark Zuckerberg (6)
15. Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows (6)
16. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (5)
17. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (5)
18. Duncan Dhu - Cien Gaviotas (5)
19. Guy Clark - Anyhow, I Love You (5)
20. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (5)

isn't that fun? I think it's fun. plus tonight I got to scrobble my first Juicy J and 2 Chainz tracks and that's not something I'll ever get to do again, god bless this website and the 100% free amusement it has provided me since June 2010

It definitely seems more of a personal thing rather than a community one now. My last shoutbox messages were almost 9 years ago :(

for some reason, last.fm still thinks i'm a subscriber/pro user even though I haven't paid them anything in four years, and for that I am grateful.

Nice.

What does being a subscriber get you - more analysis/stats?

yep though I hardly use them - monthly charts, historical charts, library images etc. But I appreciate the no-ads browsing.

Back in the day, I used to subscribe for their radio streaming service but spotify pretty much killed it off so it wasn't really worth it anymore.

I still check mine fairly often without really knowing why. I've been on there 12 years.

Who am I kidding, I LOVE knowing my stats. And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data. Nope.

Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.

I still wonder what went on there in what was it 2015/2016 when for no apparent reason they rebuilt the site, made everything worse or just removed features completely, then just let it rot. why even bother rebuilding it? what was it like working in their development team at that time? was there some demented management decision behind it?

I think the re-design was meant to make the site more phone/tablet-friendly, as this had been introduced as a factor in Google page rankings, and they needed to maintain the site hits to retain the ad clicks.

It's one of those things that I would just never stop using and would probably be low-key sad about if it went under. I've got like 13 years' worth of listening on there.

Also, for the recent noughties poll I was looking back over my loved tracks from 2007 or so and there were loads of great tunes I'd completely forgotten about

biggest stats gripe atm is that the iphone app will sometimes scrobble a song 20 times after i listen to it once

btw if anyone wants to add me - last.fm/user/jdevine28

And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data.

just fyi you can use openscrobbler.com to do it without having to waste the time/bandwidth

signed a guy who used to go to great lengths to scrobble vinyl and mp3 player tracks

I had no idea that existed - cheers.

I use universalscrobbler.com to log my cd/vinyl listening.

Was disappointed to find that the new Apple Music app doesn’t tell last.fm what’s been played on my phone - iTunes did.

Who am I kidding, I LOVE knowing my stats. And haven't once played a record and queued it up on Spotify so it won't be missing from my data. Nope.

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Haha. That's a dark secret but yep.

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I haven't been able to scrobble anything through iTunes for 2 years....anyone else have that issue? the scribbler still pops up every time I open the program, it just....doesn't do anything

Mine hadn't worked for a long time, either. Since switching laptops I've abandoned it altogether (iTunes) and haven't missed it for a moment.

had a laptop with iTunes until last year, and it was working just fine (maybe too well: it double-scrobbled every played track)

I'm still on this thing. If anybody would like to add me I'll add you back
https://www.last.fm/user/Algerian_Goalie

"signed a guy who used to go to great lengths to scrobble vinyl and mp3 player tracks"

I listen to a lot of SACDs with 5.1 surround sound. I have evolved this little dance where I hit play on my media center so that the rip of the album starts playing and scrobbles, and then I quickly switch the stereo over to my SACD player so I can actually enjoy the music.

glad i'm not alone in my obsessiveness!

fyi I was having some wifi issues on OS X, most obvious symptom was poor videoconference quality. turns out the AudioScrobbler thing I had in the menubar was causing them.

in case anyone is still using AudioScrobbler and having network issues on OS X. it was very obvious for me:

1. open terminal, type: ping 8.8.8.8
2. ping times reliably went up every thirty seconds or so
3. close AS
4. ping times were fine

I’m not using AS but last.fm in general has been wonky the past couple of days, there’s been a few hours where it would just suddenly stop scrobbling or my charts would disappear. The missing scrobbles do come back later on though

Been flaky for me today.

same here. happens sometimes.

like the fonz I had to fix that shit by knockin on it, and by that I mean logging out and then logging back in again ok

it is much pleasing to see my results. I mean wouldn't you be pleased to see these pleasing-ass results

minutemen - my heart and the real world
e-40 - GOAT
kanye west - lift yourself
kanye west - i love kanye
bill wells - duck
u.s. girls - rosebud
the invaders - spacing out
toots & the maytals - pressure drop
keith & tex - stop that train
the spinners - could it be i'm falling in love
al green - it ain't no fun to me
dionne warwick - you're gonna need me
johnny paycheck - fifteen beers
silver jews - friday night fever
pavement - black out
creedence clearwater revival - ramble tamble
ghostface killah - jellyfish
suicide - ghost rider
scott walker - the lady came from baltimore
ultramagnetic mc's - traveling at the speed of thought
ramon ayala y sus bravos del norte - rinconcito en el cielo
the strokes - hard to explain
flipper - sex bomb
optimo - liquid liquid
deerhoof - o ye saddle babes
james taylor - i was a fool to care
terry callier - you don't care

There seem to be two different Spotify widgets now (or there have been for a while) - Spotify Scrobbling and Spotify Playback (the old one). Lost two days of scrobbling as a result (I'm devastated can you not tell) - no communication about this from last.fm that I noticed, had to go to Settings and the Applications tab to enable it.

one of these days i need to arrange matters so that ZEUHL is my leading genre of the week

congrats to me, i guess, for having scrobbled a quarter-million tracks

I'm almost there - 246,000.

Just checked and surprised to find out I'm almost on half a million - 495,000

Given that the world is burning I thought I'd idly check my last.fm stats. Looking at the weekly stuff they produce, I average around 400 scrobbles a week, which equates to about a days listening. Given I can't listen to music at work anymore, a fair amount of listening in a week, I figured.

Well, I'm following someone who regularly posts 6000 scrobbles a week, so more than ten times my amount and, well, what? Are they just shuffling 24 hours a day for the shits and giggles? A bot? Are there prizes for most scrobbles?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address plz.