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A browser extension created for people who listen to music online through their browser, and would like to keep an updated playback history using scrobbling services, such as Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz. Available for Chrome, Chromium-based browsers (Opera, Vivaldi, etc), Firefox, and Safari (macOS and iOS).

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Scrob...what?

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Verb scrobble (third-person singular simple present scrobbles, present participle scrobbling, simple past and past participle scrobbled) (Internet slang) To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.

Noun scrobble (plural scrobbles) A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's a term invented by Last.fm that didn't really catch on more generally because it's too silly even for the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

By Audioscrobbler, which merged later with last.fm

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