Finale for Last.fm

Once in a blue moon when I’m searching for a song to scrobble it has an error but otherwise, the best ui with the best features that works the best and the fastest with lastfm. The fact that I can look at profiles, set obsessions, loved songs, literally everything on the site just better is perfect.

When it works it’s nice, in fact it’s significantly better than the official last fm app — not only can you actually see all your stats and most of your profile information instead of it redirecting you to the website but you can also edit scrobbles for free even though that’s a regularly premium features and manually scrobble things without a third party, but it regularly breaks completely and isn’t fixable any way other than deleting and reinstalling the app. For example, after a very short period of time if I try to do literally anything other than look it my stats it will just tell me I need to log in again over and over even though I’m already logged in and nothing changes when I do it again, no matter whether I do it through the popup itself or log out and sign in again manually. Another is that sometimes even when it does let you do these things, whatever you changed (deleting, editing, scrobbling in general) will immediately revert back to what it was before when you refresh the app. There are even more issues than this, these are just the ones that bother me the most because they happen the most frequently and defeat half the purpose of the app. Redownloading the app does fix it, and even with these issues it’s still more usable than the actual last fm app, which is why this a 3 star review and not a 1 or 2, but the fix is extremely temporary and the bugs will return in under a week. I really hope this gets fixed or something because it’s really a waste of what would’ve been a great app.

I downloading this app after having to abandon a different scrobbler for phantom dumping multiple false plays of the same song. This app does not have this issue, but does have an undercounting problem. Specifically, with Apple Music tracks it can only track the last time a song has been played since the last time it scrobbled. So if you listened to one track five times since then, it will only count the last time it was played. Doubly frustrating is that the background scrobbling feature does not seem to consistently work. Maybe it runs on an interval or something, but i constantly have to manually retrigger a scan to get the tracks I listened to, which seems a far cry from what the app marketed itself as being able to do.