Last.fm now integrates better with Spotify to keep track of your music.
Music centric social media site Last.fm is making it easier to keep track of what you listen to on Spotify by centralising its tracking system.
In an update to users, the service says it added the ability to “scrobble” from any device running Spotify by connecting the user's accounts from within Last.fm.
Scrobble or scrobbling allows Last.fm to track songs you have played on Spotify or any other service so you can view all the music you have listened to on various services.
“Soon this will be the only way that you can scrobble from Spotify to Last.fm so make sure you connect your accounts,” it said in the e-mail.
Previously, users had to sign in to Last.fm on each of their devices running Spotify for the data to be transferred from Spotify to Last.fm.
Now, users only need to sign in to Spotify once from within Last.fm’s Applications settings page to allow tracking across all devices.
“Doing so will enable you to scrobble from any Spotify device, keep all of your favourite Last.fm features up to date and, of course, not miss out on any scrobbles, because as you know... if it doesn’t scrobble, it doesn’t count,” it said.
Although Spotify also tracks user’s music listening habits to develop recommendations, the data is not shared with users.
Last.fm allows users to see what they have been playing and offers data visualisation to show patterns in listening behaviour such as what day or even what time of day users are most actively listening to music.
The companies went into a partnership back in 2014 due to their complementary services, with users now even being able to listen to songs recommended by Last.fm using a native Spotify music bar.
