- Last.fm is a place to display and track your music library online. You can keep track of your playcounts, your most-played artists for specific periods of time, and more. Sign up
- Once you create a profile, you get access to the largest music library. You can make your own library from your iTunes playlists, listen to internet radio stations based on specific artists or your own library, “love” tracks, join discussion groups for specific artists or post on general music forums, follow your favorite musicians’ pages, etc. You get neighbors and friends! Here is David Cook’s Last.fm page.
- The best thing about Last.fm is the ability to “scrobble” the tracks that you listen to on iTunes, Spotify, Winamp, and other media players. Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it on iTunes, or other sites, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile. You need to download the Scrobbler, which automatically fills your library and updates it with what you’ve been listening to on your computer iTunes, iPod. If your media player doesn’t work with Last.fm’s Scrobbler plugin (Amazon Cloud, for example), you can usually find a third-party plugin like Scroblr that will allow you to scrobble your played tracks to your Last.fm profile.
- This article is helpful for scrobbling with Last.fm and Spotify, and the FAQ page on Last.fm should answer all of your questions.
David Cook Street Team
Fan-Driven Initiatives, Gifting, and Support
you guys should link the OP to the scrobbling thread at DCO, or just lift that whole thing with links and make a sub-page for it here. with my blessing. there is important info re tagging D’s work, in particular.
Thanks J! Is the thread name Scrobbling? Will look for it and make a subpage here. Thanks for permission. Didn’t have time yet to do a tagging page, I will use yours.