For the last few weeks the bug of multiple scrobbles in the official Last.fm app in my Mac has been unbearably irritating. It had made a complete mess of my scrobbled tracks list and it also had given me unfair scrobbling advantage over others.

So for now I've decided to remove the Last.fm app from my Mac.

The removal of the app also coincided with the "radical reorganisation" of my Mac, a.k.a. "tidying up". I've been removing applications and files that has little or no use from my Mac and reorganising the files into neat folders. After a few considerations,…

Well, well, four scrobbles for a song?

Apparently there's a bug in the Last.fm scrobbler client for Mac that scrobbles a song multiple times! Oddly, though, this only noticeable in the website—it doesn't seem to be the case if I see my scrobbles from within the scrobbler client app… because it only displays two—not four—scrobbles. Still not right.

If this is a bug I hope this gets fixed someday. Because it's annoying!

Apparently you don't have to have the song to have it scrobbled if you have iTunes and can access the iTunes Music Store.

I've just found out that even by previewing the song as you're browsing the store for as long as the minimum Last.fm scrobbling time, the scrobbler will think you're playing the whole song, therefore it is scrobbled.

The only drawback is you won't be able to enjoy the whole song as the iTunes only lets you preview one and a half minute of a song.

But nevertheless it's an interesting cheat!

I've been listening to the song Dumb Ways to Die by Tangerine Kitty because why not? It has all the formula that makes a great song, plus a cute-but-slightly-violent video that's reminiscent of Happy Tree Friends. Guaranteed to never leave your mind.

Now if you'll excuse me. I'm going to sing along again with it.

Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die

While I wrote about the double scrobbling earlier, a few weeks ago I lost some tens of scrobblers. It was my fault: I forgot to start the Last.fm scrobbler before I synced my iPod so it only synced the play counts to iTunes, not to the scrobbler.

I lost my many Bon Iver plays!

It's odd that when I sync my iPod sometimes the Last.fm scrobbler double-scrobbles the songs that I had listened to in it so they looked like they were listened twice at the same time (which is technically, of course, impossible). It's really annoying on one hand but on the other maybe it's good to boost up the number of my scrobbled tracks?

I wonder if it has anything to do with my being offline when I synced my iPod?

I love scrobbling. I was even addicted to scrobbling. I listen to music in the night in a continuous fashion all night long just to get my "Now Playing" list filled with the tracks I played—it was such a waste if the music that I listen to did not get "archived" by scrobbling it to Last.fm.

So I haven't scrobbled for ages now. The reason is because the room into which I have just recently moved does not get the wireless coverage of my home Internet (it only covers downstairs), so it's such a pain in the butt to go…

I wrote about post-rock music in my previous journal, and I've been downloading more and more post-rock stuff to explore more of the genre.

One of the bands that had caught my attention was Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The band has been around for quite a long time, being formed in 1994 (according to Wikipedia). A part of one of their songs, East Hastings, is a soundtrack to the movie 28 Days Later (despite not being included in the soundtrack release), and that was the only reason why I was downloading their whole discography over the course of…

You see, recently, I've been listening to a lot of post-rock stuff, The Echelon Effect, Circadian Eyes, God Is an Astronaut, Explosions in the Sky (my favorite), and some more.

"Does a picture worth a thousand words, or does a music with no words paint a thousand pictures?". I see this quote often on the comments section of post-rock music on YouTube, and I think it best describes the genre. When I'm listening to post-rock, there's this otherworldly sensation that I feel which I don't find in any other music genres.

Unfortunately, post-rock artists can't seem to…