Since the scrobbler relies on notifications to determine what song is playing, I feel like these get corrupted/shown multiple times/disappear and reappear sometimes when the screen is turned off, which confuses the fuck out of the scrobbler app. For example Discord voice calls having a 50/50 chance of disconnecting after I turn off my screen and the app shutting down after a few seconds even though it's excluded from the "Close on screen lock" list. I'm using a dumb Hawei P9 device and have been having issues with things not working as expected after turning off my screen for ages now.
I had many theories as to why that might be the case. Ended up using custom-built Scrobball and it worked fine until it stopped working fine, basically. They used to have the best/most accurate recommendations.I've tried 3 of the most popular scrobblers on the store including that, but all of them had some issues. I think another thing that used to make Last.FM great were the recommendations. Dunno what other websites it can scrobble from, but probably more. Dunno if it's officially endorsed by Last.FM itself or if it was a fanmade plugin. There is a Last.FM plugin that enable scrobbling from websites such as youtube and bandcamp to Last.FM. That's not even considering the already existing deficiency of last.fm regarding vinyl, cassettes, and the like. Last.fm doesn't have a way to capture that kind of listening information, correct? So it would take a bit of doing to create an all encompassing tracking system anymore. Plus a lot of people now listen to music digitally without even using mp3s or other song filetypes, by listening to streaming radio or songs posted on youtube, for example. A lot of other music listening/library programs do keep track of how many times you've listened to individual songs, but don't connect that to links to webpages about the band. Most people don't seem to be interested in such statistics. Does the website even allow you to export your scrobble statistics, anyway? That'd be nice. And not every song I listen to is scrobbled to Last.FM, but I'd still feel a bit sad if the website suddenly went away and I lost every single scrobble there. Granted I was listening to music way before I could scrobble it. For them to suddenly just disappear forever one day would be kind of sad. I got about 30,000+ scrobbles or so there. It'd be kind of a shame if the website suddenly folded one day, though. Instead of letting fans make those widgets why didn't Last.FM made an effort to do some of those themselves? They're all about keeping track of the music you listen to. That's another thing Last.FM should have thought about. I do't think any of them work any longer. Oh and btw, the worst thing the update did was basically making all of those cool fan made widgets die. How else would CBS or whatever company owns it profit from owning such place? Dunno if the place has ads since, like many other people, I use an adblock plugin.
Do they sell our scrobbling information to labels and marketing research companies or something? That's gotta be it. Perhaps one day Spotify will eventually buyout Last.FM or something? Btw, apparently Last.FM are owned by CBS, which is an American tv network. so what stops Spotify from keeping stats of the music you listen to and allow you to scrobble as well? Granted it'd be only for music available on Spotify, but it'd be a nice feature nonetheless. Not to mention it also has recommendations. Spotify already knows what you've listened to in the previous week, with its Discover Weekly playlist. Everyone seems to use Spotify, foobar, itunes or even Winamp(me sometimes) still. why is Last.FM basically the only place that can gather scrobbles? Why don't mobile apps such as google music do that? Windows Media Player kept track of how many times you played each song back then, but not many people use/like WMP these days. Probably not as many as before 2014 or so, though. The website might seem dead nowadays if you check the shout section of artists, but tons of people still scrobble daily. Nowadays you don't even need Last.FM to tell you when there is a new concert anymore. Ofc back in the mid-late 2000s, when social networking was in its infancy and FB and Twitter weren't a global thing nor did places like Discord existed, Last.FM was a rather nice place for people to form small groups and find meet people with matching musical taste.
how long until Last.FM finally dies? The community aspect of it is pretty dead now. You know, I normally wouldn't bump an old thread but I've been thinking lately.
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