Love, ban and tag Last.fm tracks from Spotify

I use Spotify a lot, I mean a lot. Between it and Last.fm I’m fairly sure I need never buy another album again. Sure, I miss the old days of listening to a freshly-purchased album whilst flicking through the artwork and sleeve notes, reading every last word (even the ‘thanks to…’ bit!) and absorbing the lyrics, but increasingly I don’t have time to do this – I listen to music on the fly, whilst I work or travelling, and I loathe the process of converting all my CDs to mp3 and transferring them to my phone.

Take two albums into the shower? not me, I just listen, and go!

So I’ve crafted a colossal Last.fm library and I’ve plumbed the depths of the Spotify catalogue to find ever tasty morsel of alternative-post-rock-lo-fi-minimal-dub-tech-ambient-space-jazz I can find. I was well chuffed when I found out that Spotify could scrobble to Last.fm, it meant I could keep track of things I’d listened to, and the two work hand-in-hand to offer me more music than I thought possible (for free, anyway).

One of the main down sides was having to flick between the two if I found something I liked on Spotify, and wanted to ‘love’ on Last.fm. And here’s where Mr. George Brockelhurst steps in! he’s created a SIMBL plugin called Lastify which solves this dilemma exactly. You just install SIMBL, download the Lastify code, copy the relevant plugin into your Lastify plugins directory, authorise it to access your Last.fm account and you’re laughing. Or singing. Or listening, whatever.