Every play leaves a trace.
A scrobble is a tiny record of a song you played. Over time, those records become a map of your taste.
It tracks what you play, turns listening into a history, and makes old taste searchable again. Fonk exists because that archive is worth keeping alive.
Last.fm is a free music profile that follows what you listen to across supported apps and players. That act is called scrobbling.
A scrobble is a tiny record of a song you played. Over time, those records become a map of your taste.
Top artists, charts, weekly reports, forgotten favorites, strange phases. The good stuff starts after you have history.
A few months of scrobbles is useful. A few years feels like opening a drawer you forgot you had.
Start with Last.fm. Fonk gets better when more people build real listening history first.
It is the profile where your listening history lives.
Use a supported integration, app, or plugin to start scrobbling.
No journaling. No manual spreadsheet. Just let the plays collect.
When there is history, Fonk can turn it into eras, playlists, grids, and receipts.
The music ecosystem is better when listening history is portable, useful, and loved by normal people.
Fonk reads Last.fm data through the public Last.fm API, points people toward Last.fm, and treats scrobbling as the source of truth.
Future you will want the receipts. Last.fm is where they begin.