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Thanks! Hope you find it useful. Happy to answer any questions or feature requests if you give it a try

Thank you! I completely agree, the recommendation/discovery aspect is probably the most important part of platforms like Last.fm. Right now Rocksky is still relatively early and mo…

Mostly yes, but with one important detail. Rocksky has a minimal ListenBrainz-compatible API, so duplicating the ListenBrainz integration and pointing it to the Rocksky endpoint sh…

That's fair honestly, "Scrobbling" is such an old Last.fm-era term that people already in that ecosystem forget it sounds weird to everyone else. In practice it just means automati…

Rocksky itself isn't a streaming service, it tracks what you listen to from other apps/services and builds discovery/social features arround that listening history.

OAuth is possible, but the tricky part is not really the auth flow, it's the client-side ATProto write logic. To scrobble properly, the client needs to keep enough historical scrob…

Yes, interoperability is super important to me. I don't want users to rebuild their entire setup just to try Rocksky.

Thank you! Last.fm was a huge inspiration for Rocksky. I still think scrobbling and social listening are some of the best ways to discover music. Hoping to bring a more open and mo…

https://rocksky.app

Funny timing, I'm actually working on my own scrobbling platform too: Rocksky https://rocksky.app . It's built on the AT Protocol and focuses both on listening stats and social/dis…

Honestly, mostly for fun and love of Rockbox, I've wanted it on my desktop since 2010 and nobody else was going to build it :) That said, Rockbox does bring real things: a battle-t…

they're at different layers. libmpv is a full media player: demuxing, decoding (via FFmpeg), DSP, output. cpal is just a thin cross-platform PCM sink on top of CoreAudio/ALSA/WASAP…

Author here. The real motivation: I've been a Rockbox fan since 2010, when I installed it on my iPod and it completely changed what that device could do. The UI, the codec support,…