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But not obsessively, only if it's on the computer/spotify and I can be arsed. I've never specially downloaded something and waited. Surely you can listen now, scrobble later?

always feel pretty sad.

I've done similar things. I also wait until a song finishes (even if there is 10 seconds of silence) instead of skipping when I play music on itunes to make sure it counts it as a full played song.

Mine are pretty inaccurate because I play CD's in my car and my iPod only scrobbles about 35 percent of the time.

But in the end, I dont care that much.

but this might help you out a bit.

http://lastfmstats.livefrombmore.com/universalscrobbler/

over night to gain extra scrobbles. bizzare.

Does it count plays on your walkman while you're waiting for the number 274 train to Whitstable?

or else you will never get your life back

But you can skip the whole simultaneous playback charade by using Cog Scrobbler.

http://trac.ulfurinn.net/cog-scrobbler/

It's primarily for scrobbling vinyl & tapes etc. But it's linked to discogs.com, so you can scrobble pretty much anything in that database (i.e. manually scrobble CDs). You can either search by artist, or you can find the CD on discogs and plug it's ref no (the number at the end of it's discogs URL page) into it and do it that way.

I'm not religious about it but I tend to do it for bits and bobs that I've listened to that haven't scrobbled.

It'd be a worry if you were doing it purely for the playcount stat (the way people have 500 'friends' on facebook), but there are plenty of reasons why you'd want your scrobbles to be representative of what you've been listening to. The first ones that come to mind are live event and band/track recommendations.

Do you even like music or do you just like lists?

someone i know does this

:D

but I have played an album or two through Spotify or iTunes rather than just stick the CD on just so it scrobbles. I only recently got onto Last FM and am wondering whether I should have stayed away for this exact reason!

Now I've seen that cog scrobbler maybe that will help, or make my obsessivness worse!

to music, I reach for a CD, put it in my CD player and press 'Play'. No one knows what music I am playing (unless some crackpot neighbour is obsessively holding a glass up to their wall to try to make out which album it is - I strongly doubt that this is occurring.. I think they may have lives to lead and such..)
Unless MI5 have a file on me, there is no record anywhere of what music I have listened to in the past 1 hour/day/month/year, except my own memory of what I have been listening to/enjoying lately.
Am I 'citizen insane'?

Does it serve any real purpose or is it a meaningless OCD that you have no control over?
Do you document other activities in your life to such an extent?

i think it looks messy when there's lots of random tracks by different artists. even if i get bored of the album ill force myself to listen.

I only really tend to use Spotify at home now, though...

But essentially a recommendation service is only going to be as accurate as what you feed into it, and I find that Last FM is really good as a recommendation service.

Also I like stats. Lots and lots of stats.

Now you're being a bit OCD on the other side of the argument. Also, your last paragraph made no sense at all to me.