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#Iscrobbler how to

If you’re interested check out my profile and see what I’ve been listening to. This is due to some obscure policy by last.fm that only accepts track submissions in the order they are played, for whatever reason – I’m sure they have a good one 8) You have to “scrobble” the tracks you played on your iPod before you play any other music in iTunes! So much for that but one big caveat remains:

Klick on “Preferences…” in the iScrobbler menu in your menubar and check “Enable iPod Submissions” and select your prepared playlist in the dropdown underneath.

Meteorologist, a truly cool little tool that provides me with current weather conditions and. In my case this means that a few selected playlists get automatically synced to my 4GB iPod nano and I didn’t need disk use anyway so it was ok for me to disable that. iScrobbler, which keeps my AudioScrabbler profile up-to-date.

Set your iPod to sync automatically and disable disk use.

This list doesn’t necessarily have to be existent on your iPod as well. I made myself one that lists all of the tracks that where played in the last 2 weeks and named it “scrobble”.

In the standard set-up this is called “Recently Played”.

Make sure you’ve got an intelligent playlist in iTunes that keeps track of recently played music. iScrobbler RealPlayer Chax Incremental Search Plugin TextExtras Open Terminal Here.app (also consider Open iTerm Here and Open Terminal Here CM.

I’ll try to sum up in a few steps how I think is the easiest way to accomplish that. I say “finding out” was hard, because the instructions delivered with the program aren’t that clear, but once you figure it out it’s actually quite simple.

#Iscrobbler how to

The tricky part was finding out how to get iScrobbler to also “scrobble” the tracks I played on my iPod. Setting up the iScrobbler application isn’t much of a big deal and I trust you to find out how to do that yourself 😉 & iTunes 7.0.2) so you might as well try it and take advantage of the added features. The Beta version works fine for me (Mac OS X 10.4.8. Current Beta Version: iScrobbler 1.5 test 3 (Universal Binary).Current Stable Version: iScrobbler 1.2.1 Final (Universal Binary).Next you need the iScrobbler application, you can choose from two different versions: To start your last.fm experience you first have to get an account there. So it can’t determine if you played from an original CD or a file on your computer (just in case you worried 😉 ). It just sends track name, artist & album, no filename or file type.

IScrobbler is an awesome little menubar item that submits all the music you play, to the music community site last.fm.