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Oh how I love to Scrobble!

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last-fm_audioscrobbler_logo1So - I discovered last.fm in May of 2007 (I know that because my last.fm profile tells me so) on the suggestion of Josh Stevenson (who’s got a profile that has been inactive since July of 2008).  What last.fm does is keep track of everything  you listen to on their site and on your iTunes. The novelty of this is what got me hooked - a chance to show my friends how cool my music tastes are.  Then it was creating playlists that I could post on other websites that held my interest.  But it wasn’t until Josh and I started doing a weekly radio show on our local college radio station that I realized that last.fm does a pretty great job of suggesting music to fit my tastes (unlike iTunes Genius playlist).

This was helpful, but I quickly found myself cursing the day that Al Gore invented the internet.  I was addicted to scrobbling, but at least half of my day-to-day music listening was done on the internets.  How would last.fm really know what to suggest if it only knew about half of what I listen to!?

Well - all that has changed for me in a whirlwind week of scrobbling ecstacy as I’ve discovered that not only does last.fm scrobble my lala.com listens, but also everything I listen to on blip.fm and hypem.com (not to mention stuff you listen to on your iPod - but that’s old news).

Now - some of these are more straightforward than others.  Both blip.fm and hypem are intuitive enough to set up (as long as you have an account), but lala.com takes a few steps.  Here you go:

> login to your lala.com account
> click “My Lala” at top right
> then click “Settings”
> then “Beta” on the far right.

There you will find the option to request Last.fm scrobbling on your lala.com account.  You should get an email from lala within a day or two that scrobbling has been enabled on your account.

And now, on faith,  I’ll leave you with some tunes that last.fm is telling me I’ll like.


Panda Bear - “Take Pills” MP3

Great Lake Swimmers - “Your Rocky Spine” MP3

Phosphorescent - “A Picture of Our Torn Up Praise” MP3

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One Response to “Oh how I love to Scrobble!”

  1. Stereopathic Music on October 29th, 2009 5:29 pm

    [...] log in and listen to my music from any computer. Then, they came out with last.fm scrobbling, which was thrilling to me - mostly because it scratches a narcissistic itch that most of us music snobs have. Well - the one [...]

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