Lala.com + Last.fm scrobbling = pure bliss
February 11, 2009 – 9:38 pmI’ve been using lala.com for a few weeks now. It’s a great service. It lets you sync your music library with their servers so you can play your music library from anywhere with an internet connection. No reason to bring my iPod to and from work anymore. But the one caveat I had with the service was that I couldn’t keep track of my music listening trends on Last.fm like I can with iTunes or my iPod.
Until now!
Lala.com is now beta testing scrobbling your listens onto your Last.fm account! All I had to do was click on the “Tell us” link on the top left of the site and ask for the feature to be activated in my account. Within an hour, I got a reply and it was activated in my account. I’ve been scrobbling all day from lala.com. It works great so far!
Oh, and I got the tip from a lala.com reply to me on Twitter. They’ve since deleted the tweet, probably to keep the beta testing limited, or because they don’t want to be associated with me. Either way, it’s fine by me.
Update (7/12/09): It looks like the “Tell us” link no longer exists. Try asking in this form: http://www.lala.com/#contactsupport
Update (10/27/09): As Andrew pointed out in the comments below, the location to enable the feature has moved. “My Lala” > “Settings” > “Beta” link/tab at the top right.
10 Responses to “Lala.com + Last.fm scrobbling = pure bliss”
tempting!
By nelson on Feb 12, 2009 - 1:34 am
I emailed them and got a prompt response as well, telling me I was all set. What do I have to do to start scrobbling though? I’m playing stuff in Lala, but it’s not showing up in my Last.Fm profile.
Do I need to set something up in Lala or last.fm manually?
By rocky on Feb 23, 2009 - 2:33 pm
@Rocky: I had trouble finding the settings as well. They sure don’t make it easy to find!
ACCOUNT link (on top right) > Beta New link (on far right) > Enter your Last.fm account info.
By Mike on Feb 23, 2009 - 2:39 pm
sweet. Thanks.
By rocky on Feb 23, 2009 - 3:30 pm
I don’t know the story about the Tweet, but while the betafeedback email works, our systems are set up to better handle requests that come in via a form on the site. The “preferred” method to contact us about turning on Last.fm support is to go to your Account settings > Beta tab, just as Mike described. We keep it a little hidden on purpose.
Either way works, though. It’s been great to see the interest.
By Alec on Mar 9, 2009 - 5:06 pm
Thanks for the tip. Now when I use Lala.com to stream my music library to my netbook, I can also scrobble to Last.fm. If Lala.com would also give us the ability to Love songs to Last.fm, it’d be perfect!
By Tri on May 28, 2009 - 6:22 pm
Looks like it moved again. As of today: My Lala | Settings, then click the Beta link/tab at the top right.
By Andrew Conkling on Oct 27, 2009 - 7:17 am
Thanks! Thought I was the only person on earth who wanted to be able to scrobble from Lala. So glad to run across this!
By Micah on Dec 9, 2009 - 3:26 pm
My fellow Andrew’s directions to scrobble fom Lala still work in this happy new year of 2010.
Thanks!
By Andrew on Jan 13, 2010 - 2:09 pm
definitely a cool feature, now if only they’d make it so you could import your lala history to last.fm…
By joe on Feb 17, 2010 - 11:54 am