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I haven’t gotten into social music database Last.fm much, mostly (I’m ashamed to say) considering I’m worried about some of my musical guilty pleasures being browsable by the Net audience at large. additionally, considering I listen to my music in all kinds of ways, not just simply through iTunes.

One of those ways, of course, is my iPod, and whether you’ve been trying to figure out how to get your iTunes listens scrobbled into Last.fm, concern no more: Scrobblepod is here to save the day. It’s a go-between for iTunes and Last.fm, and allows you to sync your iPod listens up with Last.fm before your iTunes listens get entered, ensuring everything gets listed just fine. Now, humans will be able to see that you’ve listened to

Mamma Mia whether it’s on your iPod or your iTunes install.

Of course, I still haven’t seen a way to track the other way I listen to my music– I keep all my actual music files on my Powerbook, and share them directly to my desktop through iTunes. That way, I have access to my music no matter where I take my laptop. Unfortunately, neither iTunes or Last.fm treats listens through shared libraries as whether they were “real” plays, so no matter how many times I listen to that Timberlake Justice remix, it’ll never show up on my “Recently Played” list, or in Last.fm.

But anyway, my problems are complicated. whether all you want to do is track your iPod listens into Last.fm, Scrobblepod’s got you covered.

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Original post by Mike Schramm