A browser extension created for people who listen to music online through their browser, and would like to keep an updated playback history using scrobbling services, such as Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz. Available for Chrome, Chromium-based browsers (Opera, Vivaldi, etc), Firefox, and Safari (macOS and iOS).
Scrob…what?
Verb scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled) (Internet slang) To publish one’s media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.
Noun scrobble (plural scrobbles) A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.
It’s a term invented by Last.fm that didn’t really catch on more generally because it’s too silly even for the Internet.
I never never cared about my own or other people’s music listening history. And I never talked to someone who does. So I never needed a word for the thing, I guess.
Some people actually do, especially for people from similar music fandom.
I use Last.fm for more than decade and its nice to find fellow friend that have incredibly same niche music taste.
In a way, it’s the same as peopel sharing books collection on Goodreads or tracking movie list on Letterboxd.
Sounds like social media for a specialised case. Thanks for your explanation.
By Audioscrobbler, which merged later with last.fm
“Mom, I want Scrabble.”
“We have Scrabble at home…”
I’ve used this for several years. I miss when it was trivial to get scrobbling support on anything. Weirdly despite how portable players now have access to Wi-Fi & Bluetooth tethering, nothing support scrobbling out of the box. Last.fm even used to give good recommendations before it went downhill. You can say there is now value in trying to help ListenBrainz make a new recommendation algorithm with open data, but less folks have been using such platforms in the wake of leaving their data in the hands of Spotify & YouTube.
I can no longer hear Scrobble without thinking of Funhaus: https://youtu.be/ZR8az1UMOiQ
I haven’t thought about this for a while, I contributed to it years ago