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by chipotle_coyote 22 days ago
Congratulations to last.fm on this, although I'm not sure what I can do that actually "scrobbles" at this point. I went to their download page for the Mac desktop app, which somewhat forebodingly referred to "what you've been playing in iTunes" rather than Apple Music, and downloaded it anyway. It's an Intel-only app, not universal, and it doesn't appear to be signed, so macOS Tahoe screams about it being possible malware.

After going through the hula dance to open it anyway, it looks like it's working, but it sure doesn't look like it's received a lot of love recently.
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SyneRyder 22 days ago
Spotify scrobbles to Last.FM (it's built-in to Spotify as a setting somewhere, from memory). On Windows, MusicBee will scrobble everything you play through it. On Android, the Last.FM app can watch playback notifications of Android music apps that you select and scrobble those - the app itself doesn't have to have Last.FM support.

But I don't know about for Mac & iOS.

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fundatus 22 days ago
> it's built-in to Spotify as a setting somewhere, from memory

That setting has been removed a few years ago. It now works the other way round: You authorise last.fm to access your Spotify data.

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yankcrime 22 days ago
There are a number of utilities like Neptunes (https://micropixels.software/apps/neptunes) that will do this for you on macOS.
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