What does Scrobble or Scrobbling mean/stand for? The supposed scrobbling definition
Internet terms tend to get thrown about like nothing else, and it’s only once they reach the mainstream world and are actually used on a regular basis that we can find out what they mean. Well Genius Patience has decided that maybe you want to find out at your own leisure, and for that fact we’re here to inform you.
After a good deal of researching we found that the best summary came from (ironically enough) Wikipedia. However, seeing as that site changes so bloody often (we commend the “everyone can add” ideology though) we decided it best to quote certain areas.
“Using a music recommendation system called “Audioscrobbler”, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s computer or some portable music devices. This information is transferred to Last.fm’s database (”scrobbled”) via a plugin installed into the user’s music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user’s profile page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user’s favourites.”
More, well written comments.
“A Last.fm User can build up a musical profile using any or all of several methods: by listening to their personal music collection on a music player application on a computer or an iPod with an Audioscrobbler plugin, or by listening to the Last.fm internet radio service, either with the Last.fm client, or with the embedded flash player. All songs played are added to a log from which personal top artist/track bar charts and musical recommendations are calculated. They call this automatic track logging scrobbling.
Last.fm automatically generates a profile page for every user which includes basic information such as their user name, avatar, date of registration and total number of tracks played. This can be customised with additional information or photographs if desired but the fundamental layout cannot be changed. There is also a Shoutbox for instant messages. Profile pages are visible to all, together with a list of top artists and tracks, and the 10 most recently played tracks. Each user’s profile has a ‘Taste-o-Meter’ which gives a rating of how compatible your music taste is.
Profile pages can also include lists of friends, weekly musical “neighbours”, favourite tags, groups and events. An optional customisable playlist may be also added, with tracks that the user wishes to share or promote. Other features include the ability to remove songs listened to within a 2 week time-frame, navigation to linked profiles (such as friends and musical neighbours) and a list of individual users’ favourite albums.
A customisable display of Recently Played tracks, is now available via web services, allowing users to add them to blogs, MySpace or as forum signatures”
Essentially, they cite Last.fm as the originators and hopefully you understand what it now means to “scrobble.”
Early on while watching Benjamin button, a drink was ordered by the father character which initially I couldn’t distinguish what was being pronounced. 
