scrobbler
A scrobbler is a piece of software that automatically tracks and logs every song you listen to, then sends that data to a music-tracking service — most famously Last.fm.
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Born ~2003 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
listening to classical is all fun and games until web scrobbler thinks the track name is 'allegro molto' and the artist name is 'cello concerto in e minor op. 85, II. lento'
meu sonho era ter novamente a chibata de um mp3 player com scrobbler do last, sdds ipod
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A scrobbler is a piece of software that automatically tracks and logs every song you listen to, then sends that data to a music-tracking service — most famously Last.fm. The act of tracking and submitting a song is called 'scrobbling,' and a scrobbler is the tool that does it silently in the background. It's beloved by music obsessives who want detailed stats on their listening habits, top artists, and annual wrapped-style breakdowns. If you know your top 5 songs by play count, you've probably used a scrobbler.
I set up a scrobbler plugin so every track I play in Spotify automatically gets logged to my Last.fm profile.
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(internet slang) A program that scrobbles.
“listening to classical is all fun and games until web scrobbler thinks the track name is 'allegro molto' and the artist name is 'cello concerto in e minor op. 85, II. lento'”
— Bluesky· May 2026“meu sonho era ter novamente a chibata de um mp3 player com scrobbler do last, sdds ipod”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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