Scrobbling is the process of automatically tracking and recording the music you listen to, sending the data (like song title, artist, and timestamp) to a service like Last.fm.
This information creates a personal listening history on a profile, which can be used to generate statistics, get personalized music recommendations, and connect with other users’ musical tastes. The term “scrobble” can also refer to the individual data point or “play” of a song that is logged
This article picks some useful tools to help you scrobble.
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
Click the links in the table below to learn more about each tool.
| Scrobbler Tools | |
|---|---|
| Web Scrobbler | Scrobble playback history |
| Maloja | Simple self-hosted music scrobble database |
| multi-scrobbler | JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to |
| Koito | ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler |
| cmusfm | Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player |
| Rescrobbled | Music scrobbler daemon |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| goscrobble | Simple music scrobbler daemon |
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