Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.
Last.fm and iScrobbler. Music recommendation engines are all the rage now: newcomer Pandora has made a splash with its music classification algorithms, which uses your favorite tunes to recommend other songs. I tried Pandora a few months ago, and while I found it interesting, I was disappointed by the recommendations limit applied to non-paying.
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- Windows/Mac only: Freeware applications iSproggler (Windows) and iScrobbler (Mac) upload your iTunes and iPod listening habits to the popular music recommendation service Last.fm.
- AudioScrobbler is a project designed to form music recommendations by sampling 'currently playing' data from the user's media player software. In a nutshell, Audioscrobbler endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer.
Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune.
Synergy can even automatically download and display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu. Synergy licenses start at only 5? (Euros).
Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar.
It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.
Limitations:
7 days trial period.
What's New:
[Enhancement] Added some explanatory text to the Audioscrobbler account details sheet indicating what Synergy does and discussing compatibility with other Audioscrobbler tools such as iScrobbler.
[Bugfix] Fixed spelling in Audioscrobbler logging (printed 'infomation' instead of 'information').
[Notes] Other than the already-noted spelling error, no bugs were found during the beta testing cycle so the 3.1 release is declared stable. A future release will address the feature requests submitted during the beta cycle.
[Bugfix] Before sending data to Audioscrobbler escape legal-but-reserved characters as defined in RFC 2396 (previously only escaped illegal characters).
[Enhancement] Added detail to log messages if the Audioscrobbler servers return a FAILED response.
[Enhancement] If the Audioscrobbler returns a FAILED message in response to a submission, wait until it is time to submit the next track before retrying with the failed track; the previous version tried again after the Audioscrobbler-specified delay (usually one second).
[Note] Beta validity period extended from two weeks to three weeks.
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Track the music you listen to by scrobbling via our desktop and mobile apps or by connecting to many of your favourite music services.
Last.fm Desktop Scrobbler
The Last.fm Desktop Scrobbler for Windows is a simple app that runs in the background and automatically updates your profile with what you’ve been playing on your computer via native media players such as Windows Media Player or iTunes.
Download now for Windows Compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
Not using Windows? Try the Mac version
Legacy Last.fm Desktop App
The Last.fm Desktop App for Windows automatically updates your profile with what you’ve been playing on your computer via native media players such as Windows Media Player.
NOTE: This app is no longer supported and some features such as scrobbling from certain media players and iPods may no longer work on newer systems.
Download now for Windows Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Not using Windows? Try the Mac version
Last.fm Android App
Your stats. On the Go.
Make listening count with the Last.fm App.
Track the music you stream and access personalised listening reports, stats, and charts. All on the go.
- Access to your Last.week and Last.year listening reports.
- View your personal artist, album, and track charts from all-time to the last 7 days.
- Explore your listening history.
- View tag, artist, similar artist, and track information.
Last.fm iOS App
Your stats. On the Go.
Make listening count with the Last.fm App.
Track the music you stream and access personalised listening reports, stats, and charts. All on the go.
- Access to your Last.week and Last.year listening reports.
- View your personal artist, album, and track charts from all- time to the last 7 days.
- Explore your listening history.
- Scan & submit scrobbles manually (works with Apple Music).
- View tag, artist, similar artist, and track information.
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Spotify
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Tidal
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Deezer
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SoundCloud
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Mixcloud
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Sonos
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8tracks
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Bandcamp
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Pandora
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