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.
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Click the links in the table below to learn more about each tool.
| Scrobbler Tools | |
|---|---|
| Web Scrobbler | Scrobble playback history |
| Pano Scrobbler | Track listening activity across multiple music players and services |
| 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 |
| Open Scrobbler | Web-based client for manually scrobbling music to Last.fm |
| Turntable | GUI and CLI tool to scrobble your music |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| mpdscribble | Submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services |
| Scrobblet | Lightweight self-hosted service for recording listening activity |
| goscrobble | Simple music scrobbler daemon |
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