Over the past few months, I have gotten quite used to being able to scrobble the plays I record on my iPod. Being out and about quite a bit, I find myself listening to a fair chunk of my music on my iPod, and so not being able to record these to last.fm was very annoying. When I searched the forums at last.fm, all I could find were some quite convoluted ways of doing it, and nothing particularly simplistic. This is where Google comes in…
This morning, did a quick search, and found this. Perfect guide for a Mac user to get his/her iPod touch or iPhone scrobbling its plays when synced. This blog has since ceased to be, so I am reposting the info this article contained. Full credit to the original author though:
I found some very useful information last night on how to scrobble your tracks from your iPhone or iPod Touch. As you know I’m a big last.fm’er (?) and I’ve really been missing my iPod tracks on Last.fm. Here’s where I cobbled all this info from if you have any problems.
So here’s what you need to do:
- Don’t use the official Last.fm client and download iScrobbler currently at 1.5.1 here.
- Download this ‘Fake iPod’ .dmg file here.
- Make this AppleScript:
tell application “Finder”
open file (“/path/to/fake ipod.dmg” as POSIX path)
delay 15
eject disk “Fake Ipod”
end tell
- Put this script in your Library/iTunes/scripts folder (if it doesn’t exist just create the folder, it’ll work fine).
- Be sure to have iScrobbler setup to scrobble iPod tracks and set the playlist to ‘Recently Played’
- When you sync your iPod/Phone just click the script in the new ’scripts’ menu in iTunes and the .dmg will mount make iTunes think an iPod is attached and cause iScrobbler to scrobble your recent tracks from the iPod.
- The .dmg will then unmount. To be honest it probably doesn’t need to be 15 secs. Just 1 would probably do
The only thing I found didn’t work from that guide was the POSIX addressing of the Fake iPod.dmg. Whenever I ran the script, I got an error about not being able to find the file. To circumvent this I replaced the line:
open file (“/path/to/fake ipod.dmg” as POSIX path)
With:
open document file “Fake iPod.dmg” of folder “Scrobble” of folder “username” of folder “Users” of startup disk
To Windows users, I am sure this will be rectified eventually, either through the last.fm official application, or through a similar method to the above. To Mac users, good luck!
You’re the top hit for scrobble from ipod touch but the link is dead!
Wait while I check archive.org
4rth google hit for “iPhone scrobble”.
By the way, the method i used to get my iphone 2.1 scrobbling was simply jailbreaking and installing ’scrobble’.