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- How do I scrobble my iPod?
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You can scrobble your iPod with our software. Last.fm supports all iPods, Firewire and USB, including iPhone and iPod Touch. However, Linux iPod scrobbling does not yet support iPhone or iPod Touch.
Windows and Mac: To scrobble your iPod, you need to have the latest version of our software installed in order to use Last.fm for scrobbling your iPod along with iTunes 7 or 8.
To start using the Last.fm software for scrobbling tracks played on your iPod, you need to make sure your iPod is synced with iTunes.
The first time you connect your iPod with Last.fm installed, set up for your user account and running, a message will pop up near the Last.fm system tray icon to notify you that your iPod will be scrobbled from now on.
Disconnect your iPod, listen to some tracks, and connect it again. Now iTunes will sync with it and update its internal play counts with any new plays on the iPod. Once iTunes is done, Last.fm will analyse iTunes's newly updated play counts to find out whether there were any new plays on the iPod. This could take a while. If new tracks were found, they will be scrobbled to your profile.
By default you won't be asked to confirm your iPod scrobbles, but in case you always want to confirm them, you can enable this in the iPod section of the Options (Preferences on Mac) dialog.
Linux: You can scrobble with Linux using the “scrobble iPod” item in the “Tools” menu in the latest version of our software.
After you have synced your iPod with iTunes, iPod scrobbles may take up to 20 minutes to appear on your profile.
You can check your submissions history by going to your profile page, and clicking on the title “Recently Listened Tracks”, which will let you see your past submissions.
- Can I scrobble from an iPod that is manually managed?
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Yes. However, automatic syncing is still recommended.
Manually managed iPods require you to manually transfer tracks to your iPod using iTunes. You can only scrobble manual iPods after the first time they are synced with iTunes.
If you add tracks or change tags of tracks on your iPod after a sync, you should eject and plug in the iPod again to ensure those tracks will scrobble next time.
- How come the tracks played multiple times on my iPod all get scrobbled with the same timestamp?
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If you played a track multiple times on your iPod, all occurrences have the same timestamp, and all plays on an iPod Shuffle have the same timestamp. This is intended behaviour, and you can remove plays from your “Recently Listened Tracks” page on the website as per normal, if you don't want them to appear there multiple times.
- Whenever I scrobble my iPod, some tracks I listened to a long time ago get detected.
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Check if any of these tracks have more than one entry in your iTunes library. If so, remove the duplicate and they should stop being picked up by the iPod scrobbler.
- When listening to my manual iPod via iTunes, the tracks get scrobbled twice.
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This is a known issue. For now, you can work around it by turning off real-time scrobbling in the Last.fm software when listening through iTunes. Alternatively you can enable "Always confirm iPod scrobbles" in the software's Options dialog, and then answer no when the software asks if you want to scrobble them.
- How long can I wait to scrobble tracks from my iPod?
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You have two weeks to scrobble new tracks played on your iPod. There's a time limit for scrobbles, which means that any plays with timestamps older than two weeks will be disregarded and won't get scrobbled to your profile.
- What is the iPhone and iPod Touch application?
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The Last.fm iPhone app allows you to listen to Last.fm radio on your iPhone or iPod touch, and also presents you with a selection of other Last.fm functionality, such as artist biographies, similar artists and events.
- What happens if I scrobble offline and my tracks don’t get submitted immediately?
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When you’re scrobbling offline, the Last.fm scrobbler will cache the tracks you listen to. You can check this by going to the “Help” menu and clicking “Diagnostics” where the cached scrobbles should appear. These scrobbles should then be submitted to your Last.fm profile the next time you connect to the Internet.
You have two weeks to submit your scrobbles to your Last.fm profile, otherwise they will be disregarded. You should bear this in mind when scrobbling music you listen to on your computer while offline for a long time, or when you don’t sync your iPod scrobbles for a while.
- What is scrobbling?
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Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile.
Once you've signed up and downloaded Last.fm, you can scrobble songs you listen to on your computer or iPod automatically. Start scrobbling yourself, and see what artists you really listen to the most. Songs you listen to will also appear on your Last.fm profile page for others to see.
Millions of songs are scrobbled every day. This data helps Last.fm to organise and recommend music to people; we use it to create personalised radio stations, and a lot more besides.
- Does the iPhone application scrobble the tracks I’m listening to?
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The app scrobbles what you listen to via Last.fm, but unfortunately Apple don't allow background applications on the iPhone, so it's impossible to scrobble what you play in iTunes directly on the phone.
You can use our Last.fm Scrobbler to scrobble the songs you've played on your iPhone when you sync it with iTunes on your computer – you’ll find some more information about this in our iPod Scrobbling FAQ category.
If Apple ever decide to allow background applications on the iPhone (we've asked them!) we will release an update to scrobble directly from the iPhone.
- How can I get the iPhone application, and how do I use it?
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The iPhone and iPod Touch application is available in the US, UK and Germany where you can get it in your iTunes App store.
To get started, go to the music category of the iTunes App store (in iTunes or on your iPhone/Touch). Find the Last.fm app and simply download it (for free).
Log in or signup to Last.fm and you’ll be presented with a fairly obvious selection of Last.fm functionality. Things with the red circle icon start streaming. You can navigate through the menus and go back with the button in the upper left.
Once you start streaming something, you’ll have access to the familiar Last.fm contextual items (love, ban, skip… tagging will be in the next version). You can also check out the artist bio, similar artists and events (particularly cool). If there are current events for the now playing artists, you can specify if you’re attending or not and go to a Google map for the event location.
Read more on our blog.
- What can I use to scrobble the music I listen to?
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If you listen to music here on the Last.fm website, the on-site flash player will scrobble every track you listen to to your profile (given that you are logged in to your account and play at least 50% of the track; 30 second previews won’t scrobble).
You can also use our Last.fm Scrobbler software to play and scrobble Last.fm radio on your computer, and also to scrobble what you’re listening to with your media player or iPod. If you need more help information about the scrobbler, please have a look at our ”The Last.fm Scrobbler” FAQ category, for instance for what operating systems and media players we support.
Should you have any questions about or problems with the scrobbler, we have a support forum where you can get help.
What other scrobblers are there I can use?
There are also lots of other third party plugins and applications which allow you to scrobble your music to Last.fm. You can find many of these here on our Build site, category “Scrobblers”.
Please note that if you’re using a third party plugin or application to scrobble your music, we cannot offer you any support for these. Due to them not being developed by us, we ask to you to get in touch with the respective developers or user communities should you have any issues or questions about them.
This also applies to the old Audioscrobbler standalone plugins which are no longer officially supported by us. You are welcome to use them, but please note that we can't help you with support for them should you run into any problems. (P.S.: Looking for the old standalone plugins? You can download the Winamp one here and the Windows Media Player one here.)
