last.fm audioscrobbler maybe going away (rumour)

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  • Well well, the hidden value of a grammar school education emerges: one of the phrases indelibly left in my mind from Latin class ties together themes on this thread nicely:
    tu es loquacior quam psittacus
    (you are more talkative than a parrot)

    Just remember, quidquid Latinae dictum sit, altum videtur.
  • My grammar school education was not so good that I can translate that!
  • "Whatever is said in Latin is seen [to be] noble."
    or:
    "That which is said in Latin sounds profound."
  • Just bumping this to keep it among the recently discussed...59 pages of discussion and laments now!  Somebody has designed a fix/workaround that is working for at least some users
  • Doofy, what are you talking about? I'm suffering no last.fm woes atm, and am not aware that others are.
  • Karg, see link on previous page.  Many users have been unable to scrobble since updating to iTunes 12-point-something.

    That is the case with my office computer.  The other machine, still running iTunes 11, is same as ever
  • Ah, appears a Windows problem. Macs appear to escape those issues unscathed.
  • FWIW, There's no problems on my Windows 7 machine, neither in IE nor in Crome.

    - I can also see that Confused is listening to Steve Reich atm. and Karg's last play was Dexter Gordon 11 hours ago.
    :-)
  • I just saw there is an upgrade to the scrobbler, 2.2.37. I upgraded by 64-bit iTunes to 12.1.2.27 this morning and the scrobbler is working fine. 

    But now the downloader is broken in Chrome, but in Last.FM's defense, it is Chrome's fault.  
  • Working here too.  Had to delete and reinstall the audioscrobbler and iTunes plugin.

    Apparently it will scrobble what you play on your computer but not songs synced from devices.  Haven't tried that yet (and only the rare songs played on  my phone will be affected).
  • I use an app on my iOS devices called CloudScrob. Basically it reports what iTunes played since the last time the CloudCrob app was run. It is not automatic or realtime, but it works. 
  • I use CloudScrob, too. Agreed that while not automatic, it works fairly easily. I don't listen to music a lot from my iPhone, but enough that I update every week or so.
  • I do most of my listening from the iPod touch. I use SmartPlayer, which does scrobble in real time when I am connected to WiFi, or saves it up when not.
  • Ah, I see it still doesn't know iTunes is running when you try to Scrobble manually.  Ah well, we soldier on.
  • I'm thinking I will not take this update.
  • Glad there's an update. The previous one crashed like a crash test dummy, as in it seemed built to crash repeatedly. 
  • Well, last.fm has a new beta.  It still has scrobbling, but obviously the set up is designed to look 'cool', and I'm sure everyone will hate it.

    Craig
  • I hate it less than I thought I would...glad the scrobbles were not retired. 
  • Stupid ironic meta programmers; no longer satisfied with trying to look cool, now they try to look 'cool'. I can just feel them itching to try their hands at "cool".
  • I haven't even seen it yet, but I probably hate it.  Trying to look cool is so uncool.


  • Gah, yes, I hate it, mostly because I browse last.fm mostly on artist lists, and all that image vomit makes that impossible.
  • cafreema said:

    Well, last.fm has a new beta.  It still has scrobbling, but obviously the set up is designed to look 'cool', and I'm sure everyone will hate it.

    Craig

    I hate it too, as much as I hate the new Soundcloud.
  • edited June 2015
    Seems to have joined the race to dumb itself down...

    Didn't bother installing the scobbler when I changed machines a year ago, so not really missing it all that much...
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