Help me scrobble my ipod touch

[Keith Whitener]

I've googled this countless times, but it's proven to be unhelpful. I imagine some of you on here use Last.fm and of those some, some use an ipod touch and a mac. Help me figure out how to do this with my mac, pls. Thnk you!

[yesno]

last I checked you need to get a script to mount a disk image pretending to be a classic ipod every time you plug in the touch.  then that phony disk image triggers the scrobbler.  maybe they fixed it by now.

if that sounds greek to you, that's because the whole process isn't worth it.  or you can jailbreak the thing and run a scrobbler in the background that submits in real time (if you're on wifi), but that totally kills your battery.

I lost interest in last.fm for their inability to fix the bugs and deficiencies in their software and for a bunch of other reasons.

[Steeley Chris]

What I want to know is how to get album artwork off your iPod. It use to be that there was a "display album artwork" box you could uncheck, but it ain't there no more. 43 tracks of "Double Nickles..." artwork is probably taking up some precious space.

[yesno]

For artwork that iTunes supplies, there's only one copy per album. So you could delete the images from each mp3 and then tell iTunes to get the artwork itself. I'd rather lose the space and keep doing things per file,not per album, though. More flexibility.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

So the last.fm app doesn't do it for you? I have the scrobbler installed on my Mac and on my Touch, I think that combination is key, but I could be wrong.  It works well for me anyway, when I plug in my ipod it syncs and then I get a popup listing the songs I've played and it asks it I want to scrobble them.

[samir]

Ben, mine just started scrobbling again after six months of not doing so. I'm not sure what I did to trigger this change, but hopefully you'll have the same out-of-nowhere luck.

[Christina]

Ben, mine just started scrobbling again after six months of not doing so. I'm not sure what I did to trigger this change, but hopefully you'll have the same out-of-nowhere luck.

I am not on a mac, but my Ipod doesn't always scrobble when I sync, even though I know there's stuff to scrobble. I've just been assuming it's not terribly reliable.

[masterofsparks]

Am I an idiot for not knowing what the hell "scrobbling" is?

[fonpr]

Am I an idiot for not knowing what the hell "scrobbling" is?

Absolutely not!  I don't know either.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

When you listen to music on your itunes with the last.fm app installed, information about the music you are listening to is sent up to your last.fm account.

If you don't know what last.fm is, check it out: http://last.fm

[Keith Whitener]

I have the last.fm app installed and it doesn't scrobble.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

If you're talking about the one on your mac, then make sure the little thing at the bottom right corner of the app says "scrobbling on":



If it doesn't, click on it to toggle scrobbling.

FOr the ipod touch, here's what my setting look like in the last.fm preferences, it scrobbles on sync:

[Keith Whitener]

last I checked you need to get a script to mount a disk image pretending to be a classic ipod every time you plug in the touch.  then that phony disk image triggers the scrobbler.  maybe they fixed it by now.

Where can I find this script? I ran across a few, but they were not working/directions were unhelpful.

Lothar_Brightblade, I had those settings. Still nothing,