Yeah, I use Last.fm. I’ve had an account for quite some time now, as I signed up to Audioscrobbler a long time ago. I think I was still using Winamp at the time. Last.fm and Audioscrobbler merged, and the accounts went with it.
I was using Mog for a little while, but I got bored of it and didn’t reinstall the plugin after a rebuild. People have been using Last.fm more and more, and not one to miss a 2.0 fad, I had to get back into it.
The default Last.fm scrobbler plugin is pretty good, and it works well, but one thing it won’t do is sync songs from my iPod. So any songs I listen to on the iPod don’t count towards my Last.fm stats and info. Obviously, this is a total injustice, so something had to be done about it!
After a little digging, I found a few methods of doing it, but most were manual. I really didn’t want to have to run a script before syncing (what with being lazy and all), so instead I managed to find iSproggler.
The nice thing about iSproggler is that it sits quietly in the background, watching iTunes. If I play a song, it gets scrobbled. Nothing ground breaking there, but it will also watch any iPod syncs and pull the play status off the iPod and scrobble that too.
A couple of caveats with it though. Firstly, it’s a little unstable. It doesn’t see to like scrobbling and syncing the iPod at the same time. I frequently remember to sync whilst listening to music, and that crashed iTunes. Not a major problem, as I can just try and remember to sync when I open iTunes, THEN start playing.
The second problem is that it uses iTunes scripting interface, but seems to hold it open all the time. This means when I try to quit iTunes I’m informed something is using iTunes and would I like to wait. A minor annoyance, but I’m sure something that will be fixed in a future version.
Still, useful little tool!