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How to Enable Last.FM Scrobbling in Google Music Frame

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As an avid user of both Google Music and Last.FM, enabling scrobbling in Google Music Frame – the integrated desktop web app for Google Music – was a must do.

Annoyingly the instructions on the Google Music Frame website refused to work for me on any of my devices, but with a quick poke around I found a solution.

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Easily export you Last.fm scrobbles to Libre.fm

If you’ve longed to make the leap from Last.fm to its’ open-source ‘rival’ Libre.fm but the thought of losing your thousands of scrobbles put you off then do read on…

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GTK+ Last.fm app ‘Chipmunk’ updates with volume slider & mini mode

Remember that ever-so-adorable GTK Last.fm player we showed you several weeks back? It’s just updated, adding a new mini-mode, a volume slider and an improved installation script which cleans up after itself – which is always nice, no? Chipmunk mini-mode Chipmunk 1.7.2 can be downloaded and installed using the steps beneath: – Download this script, saving [...]

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Chipmunk – Sweet little GTK Last.FM Player

Last.fm lovers addicted to music streaming service should cancel their therapy and check out the following shiny new application named ‘Chipmunk’. Created by Arch Linux user Andy Kluger, who has a self-confessed dependency on Last.fm, the tiny application provides everything a last.fm user could need – it can stream music based on your own scrobbles, that [...]

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Scrobble to libre.fm via rhythmbox

Scrobble Rhythmbox plays to your Libre.Fm account using the ScrobbleFree Rhythmbox plug-in. Libre.Fm is a free and open-source replacement for last.fm founded in 2009, and still under development, the service was forged on the principle of ensuring user privacy. Libre.Fm does not log users’ IP addresses, does not claim ownership of  users’ data and allows [...]

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Scrobble using the official Last.FM client with Rhythmbox

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Although Rhythmbox comes with a last.fm plug-in to scrobble your plays to the Last.fm service itself it does lacks some of the features that the dedicated last.fm player (available for Linux) provides. Although the official Last.fm client doesn’t ‘detect’ playing tracks in Rhythmbox (or any major Linux media player) by default it is easy to [...]

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How To Scrobble Plays From Creative Zen, Sony Ericsson, MTP devices To LastFM

Predicament: You want to be able to scrobble plays from your Creative Zen, Sony Ericsson phone or other MTP media device to LastFM in Ubuntu but you don’t know how. Well thanks to the i think we should rename at some point ‘MTP-Lastfm you can! Features include: Scrobbles plays from MTP devices Love/ban them before [...]

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Auto-Queue Similar Tracks In Rhythmbox Using Last.FM

I posted earlier about Banshee’s magical playlist generator that queues songs in your library based on them sounding similar. Rhythmbox users can get something similar by making use of Last.FM reccomendations via the Dynamic Tracks plugin. Last.fm Dynamic Tracks Using data from last.fm the plugin scans for “similar” tracks in your library into the play [...]

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