Multiple Scrobbling

I'm getting the same problem!

I've noticed that if I use itunes to listen to a track that is on my ipod, it gets scrobbled directly from itunes, but when I unplug the ipod and replug it back in, it scrobbles the same listen again.

i think there is a bug in the ipod scrobbling.

Hmm it's still not working. If you look at my Recently Played Tracks, the ones that got scrobbled when I plugged in my iPod are mostly listed 2-4 times in a row. =s

Another thing to check could be the "consistency" of yours iTunes music library. For instance checking that there aren't any double entries or double files for the same song.
There is a specific feature in iTunes called "consolidate library" wich will copy all your music in the default folder taking care of removing duplicates,etc.

tangerine-trees said:
Hi there. :)
So I got a last.fm account around 3 weeks ago or so, and it was fine for 1 week-ish. Then all of a sudden, when I plugged my ipod in, it would either double scrobble, or scrobble the song three to six times, and it's still doing that. (I think this started happening when I updated the software.)

Any ideas? Thank you!!

Oh and here's the version and stuff:
Version 1.5.0.24910
iTunes plugin, version 3.0.0.13


I reckon it's a limitation of the ipod... for each song the ipod stores the play count and the last-time played. So if you listen to a song a couple of times between docking - then last.fm has multiple scrobbles to upload, but only one time to associate with them.

That's my conclusion anyway after analysing my scrobbles. :)

Same thing happening for me. Some double, triples and more scrobbles. All dupes have the same time scrobbled and if you delete one...and then refresh...they all are gone. Very sporadic as it doesn't happen every time I connect the iPod

dougma said:

I reckon it's a limitation of the ipod... for each song the ipod stores the play count and the last-time played. So if you listen to a song a couple of times between docking - then last.fm has multiple scrobbles to upload, but only one time to associate with them.

That's my conclusion anyway after analysing my scrobbles. :)


I'm having troubles with the multiple scrobbling too and this is definitely not the case.

I'll unplug my iPod from the computer (having not listened to any tracks on either iTunes or the iPod while it was plugged in) and listen to just one playlist of 30 songs during the day (none repeat). Later, when I plug my iPod back in and let the client scrobble the iPod tracks, it will show some songs having been played 2 - 6 times in a row with the same time stamp.

So playing a playlist of just 30 songs will sometimes yield up to anywhere from 50 to 180 plays, depending on how the last.fm client decides to arbitrarily scrobble the tracks.

I'm still having the same problem and there doesn't look to be a solution. It's clear to me that it's some kind of software bug, but I guess it doesn't make enough of an impact.

Yeah it's definitely the case with my iPod that if I play songs multiple times before docking they will be scrobbled with the same time stamp. Very annoying!

I get this problem, too. After scrobbling only from my iTunes using iScrobbler for several years, I switched to the official Last.fm scrobbling software and began scrobbling my iPod as well. I assumed that what was happening was that it was counting all the times I listened to a particular song on my iPod from before I started scrobbling from it, but it just gave them all the same timestamp for some reason. Could this be the case?

I can't get my iPod Touch recognised under tools>options>ipods. Is there a way around it?

Look at my last scrobbles on my page!

I definitely haven't listened to Set Your Goals more than once this month, and look. This is ridiculous, NEEDS to be fixed.

monnyjcintosh said:
I don't have an iPod - just iTunes (v. 7.7) - but as of this afternoon Last.fm has been listing each scrobbled play twice. Deleting one copy from Recently Listened Tracks removes both copies. Although I didn't need to, I have tried consolidating my iTunes library - but the problem remains.
To add: nothing has changed at my end since this morning - when everything was last working normally.