For example, I only care about two of the five items in Musics main navigation (Library and Search), while Soor and Marvis focus much more on listening to music that you have added to your library.īonus: Since the release of iOS 14 both Soor and Marvis contain beautiful widgets that shows your currently playing song on your homescreen. After logging in with your Last.fm account, you'll notice that the left hand side of the screen contains a search bar. So I decided to build a better scrobbler myself, and thus simplescrobble was born. In addition to Last.fm scrobbling, both Soor and Marvis better align with my expectations to a music app, compared to Apples Music app. I've looked at some other manual scrobbling websites, but they all lack two key features: search and custom datetime inputs. Soor and Marvis are two great third-party Apple Music clients and I switch between the two of them occasionally. This data is used to show a users listening history and generate personalised charts. Apple has introduced MusicKit, which allows third-party developers to create Apple Music clients and some of them integrate Last.fm as well. The scrobble service lets a client add a track-play to a users profile. the media player that you use must be able to work with the API e.g. Also includes the currently playing track with the nowplayingtrue attribute if the user is. While this worked, it worked not very well. Get a list of the recent tracks listened to by this user. In 2015 we had to use apps that detected the songs played in the Music app on iOS and scrobble them to Last.fm. Apple has fixed this a couple of years ago and in my experience everything you play in Music.app is now exposed through AppleScript and therefore scrobbled.įor the last couple of years I have used the official Last.fm Mac app to scrobble the music I play through Music.app. This was caused by Apple not exposing these streamed songs as the currently playing song in the AppleScript API, which in my experience most scrobblers use to find the currently playing track in Music.app (née iTunes). ![]() Mac OSīack then scrobbling worked on the Mac for music you have added to your library, but songs that you played directly from Apple Music were not scrobbled. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of my Last.fm account, I thought it might be time to revisit the topic. In 2015, shortly after Apple Music came out I wrote an article about Apple Music and scrobbling to Last.fm and I still get occasionally questions about it. 2 getlastfmcredentials downloadscrobbles downloadscrobbles Description downloadscrobbles Usage downloadscrobbles(username getlastfmcredentials('username'), apikey getlastfmcredentials('key')) Arguments username Your last.fm account username apikey Your last.
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