Scrobble, Scrobble, Scrobble: Sony, Playstation, PS Vita

One thing I’ve wanted for a long time is an ability to listen to my music on anything and be able to Scrobble it. I had that ability with my PC when I first discovered what became Last.fm … audioscrobbler … and that support didn’t extend to the portable player I had at the time and it made me stop using it (really!) … I got a new device later and it wouldn’t do two things I wanted, log songs so that I could upload via a scrobbler of some kind … lots of devices have that capability, just none I ever picked. So eventually I heard of ROCK BOX and once I had to guts to perform the operation, I never looked back. I stayed with that until I got an Android phone and started using that for music (last.fm support + 3rd party scrobblers) and then Google Music came along and all my desires were met (with other tries in the middle, like Audio Galaxy and Mplay, both just didn’t work for me at all.) Google Music (now called Google Play) is my best friend.

Of late the Last.fm client on my PC won’t scrobble. That’s OK since I mostly use Chrome for Google Music on my PC, but there are things I want to scrobble sometimes that I do not have on Google Music, so then it’s a point of contention, and I know other people have the same problem on their computers with last.fm not scrobbling but I can’t figure out what to do. It says it scrobbles tracks, but it doesn’t. Anyhow …

Another place I have wanted scrobbling from is the PS3. I don’t want it hacked. We use it standard as it is and that’s fine with how we use it, I just would like to see Sony understand that simply SCROBBLING what music I have on their device is what I want to do. I just want Scrobble support.

On the PSP that would have been nice too.

Now, on my PS Vita it’s even more desired.

Sony Playstation PS Vita PS3 people, please support Scrobbling to Last.fm … even to other services … but Last.fm is the main scrobbler and lots of people would like a simple process that logs the song name, album, time played (each song, each time) … and can be submitted to last.fm as scrobbles.

I use a scrobbler on my Android devices, I don’t listen to music from Last.fm, I listen to my music library and scrobble from that. The scrobbler has my credentials and logs in behind the scenes and submits on the fly or caches for later submission. It shouldn’t be so hard to implement this for hardcore users, buried in settings … please, please, please!

Google Music app would be nice too, but that’s not really something I want, I only put some music on my PS3 and PS Vita, not all my music, fwiw. I’d use it if it came to the PS Vita or PS3 though. 🙂