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Comment by DonsDiscountGas

1 day ago

I really hate the word scrobble. I'm pretty tolerant of weird language as long as it can be understood, but this can't. Everybody who uses the word seems to think it's a normal word that everybody already knows or can figure out from context (so they never define it), but "scrobble your music" could mean a million things.

It's no worse than things like blog and vlog. Words that took me at least a decade to come to terms with.

  • I disagree, blog and vlog are combinations of existing words, scrabble is entirely made up.

That's fair honestly, "Scrobbling" is such an old Last.fm-era term that people already in that ecosystem forget it sounds weird to everyone else. In practice it just means automatically tracking the music you listen to (songs, artists, albums, listening history, stats, recommendations, etc.). I should probably explain that more clearly on the repo/site.