iScrobbler

Name: iScrobbler
Rating: 2.5 (1 reviews)

2.2.1

25 February 2010

Alternative to the official last.fm client.

Overview

iScrobbler... An alternative to the bloat-ware that is the "official" last.fm client.

Features:

Full Radio support.
Integrated iPod support.
Local Scrobble lists and profile charts.
Scriptable
Minimal or full detail interface - your choice.
Native OS X app - no intermediate code to slow things down.
Stable and lightweight.
Lots of other goodies.

What's new in iScrobbler

Version 2.2.1:

Regression - Podcast and track filters are working once more.
"My Radio" is now available for non-subscribers.
More Local Charts issues with DST time switch.
Version check no longer nags if it gets a connection error during an auto-check.

iScrobbler Screenshots

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iScrobbler used to be good, but the developer has been extremely arrogant when it comes to dealing with all the memory leaks this app has, saying "All apps should allocate as much memory to themselves as possible, as OS X will manage it better.", which is false. The app eats up resources and is slow at times, but seems to do it's job OK.

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Version 2.2b5

This app made iTunes behave like a jack-in-the-box. More often than not when I quit iTunes, it would just bounce on my dock and start back up again. It was REALLY annoying. Force-quitting it made it come back faster. After searching for half an hour and removing plugins and changing settings in iTunes, I found that the problem went away entirely when I closed iScrobbler. This alone makes iScrobbler unusable. I would sooner use last.fm's bloated official client than this buggy piece of crap. Uninstalled.

Version 2.2.1

Interesting that I installed version 2.3 of this thing back in Sept. 2009. Are we moving backward?

Version 2.2

2 answer(s)

B4tm4n

25 February 2010

Same here, on v2.3

Version 2.2.1

Charliehodge

26 February 2010

Confused as well. Who is the developer now? It says Richard Jones here. On last FM the developer is someone different. Also, the link is to a beta which is not mentioned in the description...

Like (1)

Version 2.2.1

I can't deal with iScrobbler anymore. Every time a new song starts playing, iTunes beachballs for 5 seconds while iScrobbler polls it in some inefficient manner that holds everything up. As soon as I quit iScrobbler, the problem goes away. Need a new Last.fm client.

Like (4)

Version 2.2.1b1

The amount of virtual memory a process takes up (as displayed in Activity Monitor) is largely irrelevant. What does bother me is that iScrobbler randomly jumps to 300+ MB of real RAM use (even on a 3GB system this is nontrivial) and never goes down again until I quit the app and restart it.

Like (5)

Version 2.2b5

1 answer(s)

Sebasti-an-G

24 August 2008

Hi, I also had the same problem, where iScrobbler hogged around 300mb of real memory, and 2â€“3gb of virtual mem. I found that if you view info on the application and choose to launch it in "32bit mode" its footprint goes down to between 8â€“20mb of real mem and around 800 of vim.

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Version 2.2b5

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Version 2.2b5

I have a PowerBook G4 with Leopard and it takes iScrobbler and incredible amount of time and processor crunching to appear in the menu bar.

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Version 2.2b2

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resuna

14 July 2008

Try dropping back to iScrobbler 1.5. It's much smaller and tighter.

Like (2)

Version 2.2b4

Angelastic

27 June 2009

I was also using a PowerBook G4, and found that iScrobbler was often using quite a lot of processor (though I was used to my computer being slowish, and liked being able to scrobble tracks I'd played on my iPod, so I kept using it.) Now I've just upgraded to a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 3GHz, and iScrobbler still quite often uses more than 70% of a processor, and does so for several minutes at a time. Luckily I have plenty of processor to spare now, but still, that's pretty excessive given that I have the fastest Mac laptop currently available, and it uses about the same percentage of processing power as it did on a four-year-old Mac. Is it polling or something?

Version 2.2.1b1