Scrobbling on the Mac

May 8th, 2008 | Categories: Music, Technology | Tags: , , ,

I love letting other people see what tracks I listen to and I love being able to find artists similar to what’s on my playlist, that is why I love last.fm. Even though I don’t use my MacBook for listening to music much, when I do I still like to scrobble, or submit, the tracks. My problem has always been finding a good Mac client to do this. I used to use Menuet, but every time I right click the icon in the menu bar it crashes. So, I’m saying goodbye to that. I downloaded and installed the official client from last.fm and that was deleted almost instantaneously. The client gives you the option to place an icon in the menu bar but doesn’t give you the option of hiding it on the dock when it’s open. I don’t want it on my dock. At all. Deleted. So, right now I’m trying iScrobbler. We’ll see how I like this one when I’m actually able to listen to music. Does anyone have a suggestion for a last.fm app? Do you use something you think is better? If so, let me know.

  1. May 8th, 2008 at 08:55
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    The Last.fm app has an option under Preferences | Accounts | Show application in dock. It does for me, at least.

  2. May 8th, 2008 at 09:06
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    that’s not what mine has. that’s very odd. mine just has the option to display in the menu

  3. May 8th, 2008 at 17:47
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    Wacky. After I posted I updated from 1.4 to 1.5 and the option to hide the dock icon disappeared. What a strange decision to make.

    You could try Dockless, which lets you remove things from the dock that don’t have an option for it.