just wanted to drop by and share that I’ve released version 2.0 of Scrobbler for ListenBrainz today!
This update has been in the works for a while – a lot went into it, and I’m honestly curious to see how it lands with you all. For me, it feels like the first real milestone for the app.
Under the hood, I’ve completely revamped the caching and data storage – things should feel noticeably snappier and more reliable. On top of that, there are even more statistics to dig into, a new way to export your data, and an improved flow for discovering and following new people on ListenBrainz.
I’d love to hear your feedback – whether something’s broken, something’s missing, or you just want to say what you like. That kind of input is exactly what helps me keep improving the app. So please, put it through its paces and let me know here or reach out directly!
Thanks for making this community such a great place.
First of all, congratulations on the 2.0 release. This looks like a really meaningful milestone, especially the caching/storage rewrite, richer stats, export flow, and the improved social discovery pieces.
I’m currently working on OpenScrobbler, a native Swift macOS/iOS project centered around ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz.
Seeing your app already moving strongly on iOS is actually useful context for us. I’d like ListenScrobbler to complement the ecosystem rather than duplicate effort where it does not add much. Our current angle is more cross-platform macOS+iOS scrobbling, MusicBrainz enrichment, source/import metadata, and local workflow tooling.
I’d be very interested in comparing notes, especially around iOS limitations, source metadata, imports, and what you have learned from building a native ListenBrainz experience.
Congrats again, and thanks for pushing ListenBrainz on iOS forward.
hi! is this meant to automatically scrobble from apple music? if so, that functionality is not working for me. it pulls excellently from arpeggi/navidrome though, and ideally i listen via that more than apple music!
iOS is quite restricted when it comes to background access and system-wide features. That’s one of the reasons why I couldn’t implement a system-wide scrobbling option yet. Scrobbling from Apple Music is possible, and manual scrobbling is supported as well.
I’ll keep an eye on future iOS updates and investigate if new possibilities become available. On macOS, there are more options, which makes things a bit easier there.
Thanks for the question. Feel free to share your project when it´s public
Hi, it’s possible I’m not properly understanding how the app is supposed to work, but it still doesn’t seem to be tracking plays of my locally stored files in Apple Music unless I keep the app open and in the front of the screen. I was hoping based on your notes that it would be able to track plays as long as it was open even if it wasn’t the main app on the screen, but that seems to be the only way I can get it to work. I am running version 3.1 on an iPhone 16.
In case it is supposed to work, my test today involved opening the app, then switching over the Apple Music and playing the first track from “Sgt. Peppers…” That track never appeared on the app or ListenBrainz. When the second track started playing, I checked again with no update and then switched back over to the app. After a few seconds, it showed the currently playing track. Just before the third track I switched away to a separate app on my phone and reporting stopped with the third track never appearing. Thanks for your work on this! I love the idea of everything appearing in ListenBrainz and the local files on iOS is the last piece I’m trying to solve so I can scrobble everything I listen to no matter the location.
