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1. #Google play music desktop player not scrobbling to last fm how to
2. #Google play music desktop player not scrobbling to last fm install

#Google play music desktop player not scrobbling to last fm install

Install The Scrobbler, choosing all the normal default options.ģ.

#Google play music desktop player not scrobbling to last fm how to

How to Scrobble from iTunes or an iOS deviceġ: Download The Scrobbler for Windows, Mac, or Linux.Ģ. Your personal URL can be found at: last.fm/user/. That's it! Now, when you listen to anything in Spotify, it will appear on your Last.fm profile, which can be accessed by various apps as well as anyone with your unique Last.fm URL, so you can share your taste outside of Facebook. Note: You can also control the sharing of your listening habits to Spotify Social (Spotify's own social network) and Facebook, just below the Last.fm controls:ģ. With that in mind, here's how you set up scrobbling for two commonly used programs: iTunes and Spotify.īefore you continue, you'll need to register for a Last.fm account, assuming you don't have one already.ġ: Open up your Spotify preferences by going to Edit > Preferences.Ģ: Check the box that says "Scrobble to last.fm," and enter your username and password. For the serious music fan with a taste for cutting-edge technology, there's no reason not to scrobble to both Last.fm and Facebook.

Besides, scrobbling to Last.fm lets you enjoy all sorts of hacks and apps that run on your Last.fm profile. If sharing your music habits with Facebook freaks you out, perhaps you'd rather share them to Last.fm, to keep your musical identity separate from your Facebook identity. It continues to scrobble not only from iTunes, but from cloud-based music services. In fact, "scrobbling" to Facebook is so easy that when Facebook added the feature, we called Last.fm the biggest loser in that equation. In that one simple step, you'll start sending your listening history to Facebook, so your friends can see what you've been listening to (unless you turn off Facebook sharing). All you have to do to send your playback history to your Facebook Timeline is use your Facebook identity to log into a music service. Now, Facebook does pretty much the same thing (except for with iTunes). Screenshot by Eliot Van Buskirk/Evolver.fm Last.fm's feature for this is called "scrobbling," based on the fact that it had acquired a company called AudioScrobbler in order to add it.

Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sorts of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more.