wellllllp, if I get a computer that will run it, I will try it! Most of the links posted here are broken, like the mouse on my laptop. Totally not looking forward to a new PC/laptop. So many hours of drudgery, getting everything shifted over. I'd rather cruise around town in a Caddy or Lincoln, truth be told. Cuz I'm old. So not enamored of IT anymore.
Well, speaking of fun, I keep getting reminders to upgrade my lastfm and as I recall, the last time I upgraded something went wonky. Anyone having any issues?
rostasi: "Biggest Day - 15,794 tracks" - I'm not sure I ever understand what the "big scrobblers" (i.e. those that listen to an "impossible" amount of music) are doing to yield such scrobbling numbers. What's up with that day, for instance?
Yeah, I’m not sure about all that. Sometimes, I forget to open the scrobbler window thingy on the desktop and when I do, it shows me a list of stuff that I’ve listened to since I last opened it and it dumps the whole lot of it when I press a button to say “yes.” ...but that seems pretty excessive. The list looks genuinely listened to, so I just have to think it just saved it all up and dumped it all at once that day. Still, “krowseye” listened closer to 300 tunes a day than me - actually more than that - so I think the grand total for the year looks pretty accurate in the end. A run of Ken Nordine who had just died a week earlier may be a clue too.
Just an FYI. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to (Mac) Catalina, which includes the new Music app and changes how phones are synced (now through the Finder). For scrobbling, this means that the macbook last.fm scrobbler no longer scrobbles device plays (i.e., stuff you've played on the phone).
Last.fm does have an official iOS scrobbling app, but it's real shit, routinely scrobbling multiple track plays for no reason, and also mysteriously digging up old tracks in history. I consider it unusable at this point.
So I'm trying "Eavescrob" which is actively maintained and fairly well-reviewed. $0.99 atm. It seems to work sanely, so hopefully this will fit the bill. But now one must scrobble in separate ways - from laptop and device separately.
EDIT: There is one annoyance here. After syncing, Eavescrob wants to scrobble any tracks you've played (and already scrobbled) from your mac Music app. So they prescribe the perpetual chore:
If you use an separate scrobbler with iTunes on your computer, I recommend you submit your pendings in Eavescrob first, then after syncing, you can delete all redundant pendings in Eavescrob by pressing 'Edit' -> 'Mark All' -> 'Delete'.
Grr.
Separately, the Music app does seem less nimble with my big library than the latest iTunes - lots of temporary beachballs and few-second-hangs interacting with the interface. It's possible that there's still background Spotlight mapping and backups going on in these early days after upgrade.
https://www.last.fm/user/vkargatis/listening-report/year for me. I'm trying to get used to the UI update. Not a fan of the "rotating" artist/album/track stats image. I am impressed they crunched all the updates day-of - last year, iirc, they took 10ish days to finish!
For some reason, I don't have that rotating thingy that you have. I DO like the your 366 day streak - - you can't get better than that! I'm already behind on that streak, because I'm transferring stuff from one drive to another and I don't want it to be slowed down by having other things running, so Last.FM is on hold for me this week.
The image I refer to I think (after looking) is only available to subscribers ($3/mo). Basically, though, it spends 10 seconds displaying one of three stats collections, damn annoying.
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wellllllp, if I get a computer that will run it, I will try it!
Most of the links posted here are broken, like the mouse on my laptop.
Totally not looking forward to a new PC/laptop. So many hours of drudgery, getting everything shifted over.
I'd rather cruise around town in a Caddy or Lincoln, truth be told. Cuz I'm old.
So not enamored of IT anymore.
Thanks for posting, Plong42
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Anyone else?
last time I upgraded something went wonky. Anyone having any issues?
The list looks genuinely listened to, so I just have to think it just saved it all up and dumped it all at once that day. Still, “krowseye” listened closer to 300 tunes a day than me - actually more than that - so I think the grand total for the year looks pretty accurate in the end. A run of Ken Nordine who had just died a week earlier may be a clue too.
Last.fm does have an official iOS scrobbling app, but it's real shit, routinely scrobbling multiple track plays for no reason, and also mysteriously digging up old tracks in history. I consider it unusable at this point.
So I'm trying "Eavescrob" which is actively maintained and fairly well-reviewed. $0.99 atm. It seems to work sanely, so hopefully this will fit the bill. But now one must scrobble in separate ways - from laptop and device separately.
EDIT: There is one annoyance here. After syncing, Eavescrob wants to scrobble any tracks you've played (and already scrobbled) from your mac Music app. So they prescribe the perpetual chore:
Separately, the Music app does seem less nimble with my big library than the latest iTunes - lots of temporary beachballs and few-second-hangs interacting with the interface. It's possible that there's still background Spotlight mapping and backups going on in these early days after upgrade.
I DO like the your 366 day streak -
I'm already behind on that streak, because I'm transferring stuff from
one drive to another and I don't want it to be slowed down by having
other things running, so Last.FM is on hold for me this week.
https://www.last.fm/user/rostasi2/listening-report/year
but a couple of highlights that show the last year of Brighternow on my list: