Now Spinning: scrobble vinyl as you listen
Now Spinning is a player for the record on your turntable. It plays no sound. It follows the side you put on, using the track lengths from Discogs, so it can scrobble each track to Last.fm as you hear it and tell you when it is time to flip. It works on iPhone, iPad and Android.
- Put the record on your turntable, then find it in Shelfify: search for it in Find Record/Song, or tap it in its compartment.
- In the record's details, tap the round record button at the bottom right and choose Set as Now Spinning.
- Drop the needle. The player follows the side and scrobbles each track to Last.fm as it ends.
- When the player says it is time to flip, turn the record over and carry on with the next side.
Before 1.1.0 you could scrobble a record to Last.fm after you played it. Now Spinning does it while you listen, one track at a time, so your Last.fm history looks the way the evening actually went.
Connect Last.fm once
Scrobbling needs your Last.fm account. Open Settings in Shelfify, go to Last.fm and tap Connect to Last.fm. You sign in once and Shelfify remembers it. If you only want the player and no scrobbles, you can skip this.
It knows when to flip
On the last track of a side the player tells you to get ready to flip. While a side plays, the cover in the player turns like a record, and it rests while you flip. It stays still if animations are turned off (Reduce Motion on iPhone, Remove animations on Android).
The full player folds into a round cover button with a progress ring as soon as you touch anything else on the screen, so it never covers what you are doing. A tap brings it back. You find it on your records, in a compartment and in the record's details.
Outside the app: Lock Screen and home screen
On iPhone (iOS 17 and later) the record stays on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it plays. When Discogs has a length for every track on the side, a countdown runs until it is time to flip, and a Flipped button on the Lock Screen starts the next side. It can also show in the Apple Watch Smart Stack.
On Android, add the Now Spinning widget to your home screen. It shows the record that is playing and the spot on the shelf where it goes back. The widgets guide shows how to add it, on iPhone too.
If you forget about it, it does not run for hours. When nobody has touched it for longer than the record could play, it ends by itself. On the iPhone Lock Screen it asks "Still listening?" first.
Scrobbling, the details
- Scrobbling is part of Shelfify Pro. Without Pro the record still plays in Now Spinning, and nothing is sent.
- Some releases on Discogs have no track lengths. Then tap Next track once a track has played for at least 30 seconds, and it is scrobbled.
- To use Now Spinning without sending anything, turn off Auto-scrobble Now Spinning in Settings under Last.fm.
- A listen that Last.fm refuses because of its daily limit is kept and sent again later.
Put a record on, set it as Now Spinning, and leave the phone on the table. It keeps track of the side so you don't have to, and your Last.fm profile finally includes the records you own.
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