Question about Last.fm

[twosuitsluke]

Hey guys, apologies if this is in the wrong place but there we go.

I've just signed up for Last.fm and have a question. I predominantly listen to music in my iPod and want to be able to scrobble my iTunes library play history to my Last.fm account. I've got it to scrobble when I listen to anything through iTunes and it scrobbles whatever I've listened to on my iPod (since I last synced) every time I sync.

Does anyone know how I can scrobble all of my previous play history though? I've looked online but can't get answers? Hope I'm not being too dense. Any help would be appreciated.

[Bolsters]

As far as I know, you can't. iPod scrobbling works by comparing the number of plays since the last time you synced.

[Prog Snob]

Hey guys, apologies if this is in the wrong place but there we go.

I've just signed up for Last.fm and have a question. I predominantly listen to music in my iPod and want to be able to scrobble my iTunes library play history to my Last.fm account. I've got it to scrobble when I listen to anything through iTunes and it scrobbles whatever I've listened to on my iPod (since I last synced) every time I sync.

Does anyone know how I can scrobble all of my previous play history though? I've looked online but can't get answers? Hope I'm not being too dense. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't think that's available to the general public. Since the play logs are probably just temp files, they probably get erased every so often.

[twosuitsluke]

Ok, fair enough. 

I read somewhere that you could do it but the description for how to do it was based on an older version of iTunes/Last.fm

[Train of Naught]

Add me on last.fm (TrainofNaught)

sadly, you have to start from scratch indeed, cant use past listening history, so my last.fm page only goes back about one year too

[twosuitsluke]

Tomi added me the other night and I followed you then 

My Last.fm is going to be pretty inaccurate for at least the first 6 months

[Train of Naught]

Yeah it's pretty inaccurate at first, after one year The Astonishing is still my most listened album. 145 plays translates to like 3 and a half listens. That aside, 3 of my top 8 albums are TDH acts 3 4 and 5 so that's cool.

[twosuitsluke]

If I'd signed up a year ago The Dear Hunter and Act IV would be my top listened to stuff by a mile. Maybe Devin Townsend at #2. I get a bit obsessed with stats and stuff so I could see my self getting a bit carried away lol