A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, is obsessed with accuracy and research. It’s no surprise then that shortly after he starting using last.fm (I’m a big fan) to power a widget on his blog he complained about it not capturing the songs he listened to on his iPod.
After a lucky search result I came across iSproggler (for windows users) and iScrobbler (for Mac users). These utilities enable you to send playing information from iTunes to Last.fm. They also enable sending playing information from all iPod models.
You need to join either group to download the utility or click here to download iSproggler version 1.0.1.
Some of the features listed on the iSproggler group page are:
- No restrictions on paused or repeated songs in iTunes
- MusicBrainz Track Identifiers are submitted
- Ability to pause and disable submissions
- iPod support - both automatically and manually updated
- iPod shuffle support
- Multiple iPod play support
- Motorola iTunes support
- Icons indicating network and submission status
- Exclusion rules for directories, artists and genres, podcasts and videos
Please note: I don’t have any personal experience with either plugin but if it’s good enough for my OCD friend then it’s probably good enough for anyone.
Join the appropriate last.fm group for more information on these utilities.
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Amarok can report the songs you listened on your ipod and other supported players among a lot of other nice features, your friend could try it IF he is willing to switch to Linux or test it first using a liveCD.
Great information Carlos, I’ll be sure to pass this along. Maybe I’ll just ‘borrow’ his iPod and test it myself
That nameless friend’s name is Brian. He was gonna write this article in the distant future, but cannot blame his friend for jumping on it. Good article J… hope this draws some attention to your site, as well as to iSproggler.
It’s in early development, which may frustrate some people, but its functional. Last.fm, unfortunately, I cant quite say the same for. I was hoping for much more out of this site, and have been thus disappointed for some time.
For an idea of what iSproggler combined with last.fm can do, you can check out my music section at AllToTheGood.com (about half way doen on the right). The main advantage that iSproggler give is that it can read from the playlist named “Recently Played” on your iPod. You can set up whatever query you’d like for that playlist. Personally, I use my iPod to listen and rate songs, and just cause a song was played doesn’t mean I like it, so I set the query to 4 stars or over. Thus, only the music I listened to AND thought was good will be displayed on my website. It’s still a little tricky and quirky, but it works.
P.S. I’m not OCD enough to switch to Linux just to display the music I’ve listened to. Sorry Carlos.
Hehe too funny Brian
… Brian … let’s be honest … you might be OCD enough
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