The Last.FM client has always been a little hit and miss but on my old PC had probably scrobbled 90% of the plays from my iPod and 100% of my plays from my PC. On my new PC it is still scrobbling from music on hard drive but hasn't scrobbled a thing from my iPod yet.

Best, most reliable iPod scrobblers anyone? Im using Vista.

Edit: I manually manage my ipod and given my last PC died and i have a shiny new laptop my ipod library differs from my itunes library. In essence the albums on my iPod are not on the hard drive of the laptop i am using and connecting my iPod to. I have considered that this is why it isnt scrobbling my ipod plays. However on my old PC it WAS scrobbling plays from albums on my iPod that werent in my iTunes library at the time either (due to one or two hard drive fails and the eventual wiping of my iTunes library).

Could it just be that it was scrobbling these plays because the music WAS on the hard drive, even though it wasnt added to my iTunes?

You're right that it might be due to the albums on your iPod not being on your hard drive. The way the scrobbler works, from my understanding, is that when you plug it in, it checks the play count (of your hard drive's library) for new plays and submits those to last.fm. If no new plays are showing, nothing gets submitted.

When I used to manage my iPod manually, which was over a year ago, I used iSproggler. I'd look into that.

Cheers for that, i might check that out.

I'd assume that how it works too but now i think about it i used to rip CD's to iTunes, transfer them to my iPod and then delete the CD off iTunes and those plays still got scrobbled when i connected my iPod and let the Last.FM client do its business.

With iSproggler, you create a smart playlist on your iPod called "Recently Played" and that's what the program checks when you plug your iPod in. Things may have changed, but that's how it worked back then. I had frequent problems though, so I eventually decided to just sync my iPod (to a specific manual playlist, not to my whole library) and use the standard last.fm client. I have occasional problems but I can usually fix things by restarting the app and/or going to help/diagnostics and manually syncing.

Nice and varied this week:

Erland and the carnival 27
Steel Pole Bath Tub 26
Living Colour 20
New Model Army 17
Subway Sect 14
Morbid Angel 11
Scientist 10
Nas 10
Metallica 10
The Fall 10
Everything but the Girl 10
Soothsayers 9
Bauhaus 9
The Laughing Clowns 9
Melt-Banana 9
The Icicle Works 9
Son Seals 8
Transglobal Underground 8
Blind Pilot 8
Little Dragon 8
Crumbsuckers 8
R.E.M. 7
Exodus 7
Tactical Sekt 7
Lack Of Afro 7
Whipping Boy 6
Kate Rusby 6
Botch 6
Thunderball 5
King Loser 5

Last 7 Days
Common Rider - 98
Rivers Cuomo - 62
Dinosaur Jr. - 39
Operation Ivy - 33
Classics of Love - 17
INDK - 16
Bomb The Music Industry! - 11
Descendents - 11
Polvo - 9
The Ziggens - 9
Nirvana - 9
Radiohead - 8
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches - 6
Don Cabellero - 5
Sebadoh - 5
Sonic Youth - 4
Sublime - 4
Built To Spill - 3
Pixies - 3
The Specials - 3

Now that I can now scrobble my vinyl plays, last.fm has become an even better music resource for me. It simply can't be beat for recommendations, trending, and tracking.

^tgpo's back :D where you been man :D?

Lots of Justice. I like to listen to them before I sleep. :)
Justice 109
System F 7
Calvin Harris 6
Jeff Buckley 5
Lange 5
Ram & Dash Berlin 3

I primarily listened to various artist/tag stations, so my top 5 artists don't exactly exemplify what I was listening to this week.

My top 5 artists this week:

The Undertones 34
Eels 21
The Rosedales 15 (Listened to their new album, which sucks)
Bush 15
Crass 14

I am liking your list, sir. A LOT! There are about 5 that I don't know and a couple I don't listen to, but the ones I like are excellent.

^ Thanks dude, looking back it seem slike you listen to a lot of different good stuff.
By the way, right now I have Bakesale, could you reccomend me another Sebadoh album?

Samesies... :)

^ From Bakesale, I would go for Harmacy. I conder those two my favorite Sebadoh albums. Some prefer the more trashy/garage high school band sound of their earlier albums, but not me. I prefer the good song writing and good vocals present on most of these two albums.

I'd say Bubble & Scrape was the most similar to Bakesale.
Harmacy sounds hugely over-produced compared to those albums.

Hammock - 4
Sacred Spirit - 3
Richard Skelton - 2
Sortsind - 2
Those Poor Bastards - 2
The Tallest Man on Earth - 2
Strung Out - 2

Then a long list of ones

Different strokes, different folks. :) Bubble & Scrape is where I would recommend going after Harmacy, since you're right that it's a bit closer in style to Bakesale. But really for me Bakesale is a perfect bridge between the two. I just think Bubble & Scrape has too many throwaway songs.

Ehh

1 mc chris 103
2 Vampire Weekend 39
3 The Beach Boys 29
4 R.E.M. 22
5 Sufjan Stevens 17
6 Clutchy Hopkins 12
7 Horse Feathers 11
8 Gorillaz 10
8 Neutral Milk Hotel 10
8 The New Government 10

It's been a pretty nostalgic punk week.

Black Flag 111
Dead Kennedys 70
Saetia 56
Beatles 45
The Germs 42
Minor Threat 28
Nurse With Wound 27
Jay Reatard 23
Les Georges Leningrad 22
The New Government 20
My Bloody Valentine 19
Richard Cheese 19
The Black Keys 17
GO! With Fourteen O 16
Hot Cross 14
mc chris 13
Pepe Deluxé 11
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start 10
The Post Office Gals 10
Jürgen Knieper 10

Nice. 'MIA: the Complete Anthology' was like my first download upon sussing this whole music sharing business, after years of hearing about them and never being able to find their CD in shops... attained an almost mythical status... they lived up to it

Marillion 32
Argine 27
Ex-Wise Heads 23
Porcupine Tree 22
Sigur Rós 21
King Crimson 18
Viikate 17
Jaromír Nohavica 16
Muse 11
Radiohead 9
Hevia 8
Opeth 7
Altan Urag 4
Blackfield 2

And some artists with 1 play.

Not much... A lot of 60s reminiscing though.

1 The Kinks 137
2 Cut Chemist 53
3 The Beach Boys 28
4 The Byrds 27
5 Love 14
6 mashrou' leila 13
6 Eileen Khatchadourian 13
6 The Zombies 13
9 Walid Itayim 12
10 The Beatles 7

1. The Specials - 19
2. The Fall - 18
3. The Cure - 13
4. The Clash - 12
5. The Kinks - 9
5. The Chameleons - 9
5. John Lennon - 9
8. The Smiths - 8
9. Orange Juice - 7
10. New Order - 7

I need to scrobble more often..

Week of January 25-31:

Unique Artists: 96
Total Tracks: 742
Total Plays: 813

Clark 55
Sebadoh 54
Aphex Twin 47
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble 39
AFX 33
Phoenix 30
Smart Went Crazy 30
Siouxsie and the Banshees 29
Lymbyc Systym 25
Tipper 24
Autechre 23
Madvillain 22
Peach 20
Hagfish 19
The Black Dog 18

:)
Justice 60
Tiësto 17
Lange 10
The Presets 9
Scott Brown 8
System F 4
The Fray 4

Definitely feels good to revisit a lot of those songs. They were a big influence to me and friend when we played music back in the day.

1. David Sylvian - 35
2. Elvis Costello - 31
3. Public Image Ltd - 28
4. Dead Can Dance - 25
5. Elvis Costello & the Brodsky Quartet - 22
6. Manic Street Preachers - 21
7. The Pogues - 16
8. The Fall - 14
9. Scritti Politti - 14
10. Leftfield - 11

Been getting back into the Manics lately, and it's the first time I've given Leftfield a good listen in a while. Otherwise, SSDD.

Last 7 Days:

The Mountain Goats (44)
Jason Anderson (32)
The Field Mice (27)
Talulah Gosh (24)
Owen (22)
Fashawn (18)
Strong Arm Steady (17)
Another Sunny Day (14)
Go Sailor (14)
Califone (14)
Langhorne Slim (13)
Owen Pallett (12)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (12)
Robert Francis (12)
Annuals (11)
Why? (10)
Jaymay (10)

More music than usual, though that's not saying much.

1 The Ghost of a Thousand 24
2 Justice 12
3 David Guetta 11
3 At the Drive-In 11
5 These New Puritans 10
5 The Bronx 10
7 Karnivool 9
7 Chiodos 9
9 Trap Them 8
9 Green Day 8

Boy is Sung Tongs ever incredible.

Animal Collective - 152
Aesop Rock - 132
Have a Nice Life - 82
Radiohead - 68
Nick Drake - 54
Neutral Milk Hotel - 43
Pink Floyd - 40
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - 40
Galaxie 500 - 39
Seven Percent Solution - 33

Sung Tongs + Feels > Strawberry Jam + Merriweather



I love them all though.

Completely agree, though I'd stick Here Comes the Indian between Feels/Sung Tongs and Strawberry Jam.

Just because I love Animal Collective at their most juvenile too :)

Unique Artists: 72
Total Tracks: 125
Total Plays: 185

Justice 78
Lange feat The Morrighan 9
System F 7
Jeff Buckley 5

I have all their albums except Sung Tongs (which many have told me is their best), but Feels is the only one I really, really like.

Porcupine Tree 31
Ayreon 30
Opeth 26
Maraveyas 25
Schandmaul 23
Marillion 20
King Crimson 18
Viikate 17
Riverside 14
Altan Urag 14
Alximistes 11
Muse 11
Pink Floyd 10
Radiohead 9
Dream Theater 8
Blackfield 4

Mental scrobbles yo.
Flaming Lips- 50
fun.- 25
Can-15 (Digging Future Days a bunch)
Nick Drake- 15 (Checking out Five Leaves Left)
Talk Talk- 15 (Loving The Colour of Spring. I checked out Laughing Stock, didnt do much for me)

Check out Spirit of Eden.

1 Lady GaGa - 73
2 Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - 19
3 The Beatles -17
4 Magazine - 16
5 Gang of Four - 16
6 Incubus - 10
6 Big Audio Dynamite -10
6 Peter Schilling - 10
9 The Strokes -9
10 Morrissey - 7

2 things, apparently Last.fm can't count, and I need to stop listening to Lady GaGa, ffs :laughing:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 31
2 .Led Zeppelin - 25
3 .The Kills - 19
4 .The Specials - 15
5 .The Good, The Bad & The Queen - 13
6. Joy Division - 11
7. The Cure - 10
8. The Raveonettes - 7

311 37
The Dead Milkmen 23
The Thermals 23
Red Hot Chili Peppers 22
Minutemen 21
Fugazi 20
****ed Up 19
Dinosaur Jr. 19
Primus 12
The Black Keys 12
Them Crooked Vultures 9
Spoon 8
Goldfinger 8
The Shins 8
Nirvana 7