I want a way to manually submit listens… I want this because I listen to a lot of electronic music podcasts or mixes on Mixcloud/Soundcloud, and while some Mixcloud shows will submit all the way through via the Web Scrobbler, sometimes they just post a tracklist… and being able to just take the tracklist, put it into CSV or whatever, and submit it directly, is an excellent way to track my listening.
I understand an issue with this is fraud - e.g., people submitting giant lists of tracks & spamming, but even doing something like limiting it to 100 or 200 submissions a day, I think, woudl solve this problem, as it would make spamming that burdened the system or skewed results difficult, while still making the feature accessible to all of us podcast/electronic music enjoyers…
Plus, you could also add the feature of ‘Scrobble album from MusicBrainz’ - this would be genius since:
- I also listen to albums on YouTube, some of which do not have chapters thus do not scrobble via WebScobbler
- Users would have the incentive of adding new (and even old) albums to the MusicBrainz database that are not present so they can use the scrobble album (or scrobble track) feature.
If you could provide this feature, I think it would get a lot of utility specifically from EDM fans, but what would also be interesting is that it could be a tool to suck in more users from last.fm who do not want to pay sites like Universal Scrobbler to get unlimited manual submissions.