
You'll need to listen via the scrobbler app to make your tracks count. Unfortunately, you can't scrobble tracks from the standard music player or other music apps like Spotify, as far as I can tell. The app lets you play your music library and scrobbles tracks to your account. On iOS, you can download the last.fm scrobbler app to scrobble tracks to your account. You can also see last.fm music recommendations inside Spotify: Once you're in, your songs from Spotify will be scrobbled to your last.fm account and will update your stats. When you add the last.fm app, you'll need to login to your last.fm account to enable scrobbling. Spotify has a built-in last.fm app, which you can find in the apps menu on desktop, or in the settings menu on mobile. If you listen to music on an iPod, those tracks will be scrobbled when you sync your iPod with iTunes. The app can also show you stats about your listening habits and your last.fm profile: In here, you'll find a menu option called "Scrobbling" where you can adjust your preferences. Once you've downloaded the app, sign in and open the settings/preferences menu.

iTunesįor your iTunes tracks to scrobble to your last.fm profile, you'll need the last.fm desktop app. Then skip to the instructions for your music app below.

When you're all setup, login and go to the scrobbling page on last.fm. If you don't have one already, set up a new last.fm account. Here's how to get your music app connected to last.fm: Set up a last.fm account Here are some of the correlations I have from my last.fm data: Then you can use Exist to get insights about your music listening habits and how listening to music affects your mood, your sleep patterns and your likelihood to exercise. Last.fm can connect to most major music apps, scrobbling (tracking) what you listen to with just a one-time setup.

Far from leaving Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and other music app users out in the cold, this actually lets us get data from many more apps all in one go.
