A marvellous idea implemented very simply, Soundamus is extremely satisfying. Give if your last.fm username (are anyone elses I guess) and it provides an RSS feed of new and upcoming releases from your favourite artists.
Since I’m an avid user of Google Reader anyway, RSS is how I consume most of my Internet, so this fits brilliantly. My only problem is that I don’t scrobble so much any more. I listen to music in the car, from which I cannot scrobble. I listen to some music on the stereo at home, on CD (although I’m sick of CDs and may give up on them soon). We have a jukebox in the office though, that scrobbles to it’s own account, so I can watch this — but some of the stuff played on there is horrendous. New releases of Andy’s pixie music I do not want.
I fear there’s no good solution to this one - what I’d love is some way of tracking what I play in the car on my iRiver, so I can scrobble that when I sync. A quick google makes me think Rockbox might be able to do this, so could be time to give it another shot. Watch this space.
Yes, that’s my issue too. I haven’t got the scrobbling thing installed at work which is where I listen to most music whilst trying to block out the high decibel bleatings of the investment funds team. However, I do use last.fm radio a fair amount so I guess that would pick up a rough idea of my favourite musical styles, at the very least.
scrobble
the action used by zombies in an attack; a combination of gobble and scramble
adopted as a common practice amongst youngsters nowadays, especially on strangers when staggering drunkenly home in undead attire
“that undead bitch scrobbled me all over, but i got away”
“you try to scrobble me, foo’??”