Scrobblet is a lightweight self-hosted music scrobbler. It monitors listening activity from a supported music source and forwards that activity to one or more scrobbling services, allowing the tracking process to run independently of the device being used for playback.
The software is designed around service APIs rather than a desktop media player plugin. This means music can be played on a phone, computer, smart speaker or another Spotify-connected device while Scrobblet runs separately on a server or other always-on system. Its architecture is intended to make additional sources and targets straightforward to add.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses Spotify as a listening source and obtains playback activity through Spotify’s API.
- Submits scrobbles to Last.fm, ListenBrainz and compatible services, Maloja and Koito.
- Can send listening activity to multiple targets simultaneously instead of restricting users to a single scrobbling service.
- Provides CSV output for users who want a local record of their listening history or data that can be processed elsewhere.
- Broadcasts now-playing information as well as completed listening activity.
- Uses adaptive polling so requests are made more frequently while music is playing and reduced during periods of inactivity.
- Runs independently of the playback device because it communicates with music-service APIs rather than monitoring a particular media player.
- Provides structured JSON logging, Prometheus-compatible metrics and a health endpoint for monitoring self-hosted deployments.
- Supports container-based deployment and stores configuration and authentication data outside the application image.
- Uses a modular source-and-target design intended to simplify the addition of further integrations.
Website: github.com/degeens/scrobblet
Support:
Developer: Stijn
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Scrobblet is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Scrobbler Tools | |
|---|---|
| Web Scrobbler | Scrobble playback history |
| Pano Scrobbler | Track listening activity across multiple music players and services |
| Maloja | Simple self-hosted music scrobble database |
| multi-scrobbler | JavaScript app to scrobble music you listened to |
| Koito | ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler |
| cmusfm | Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player |
| Rescrobbled | Music scrobbler daemon |
| Open Scrobbler | Web-based client for manually scrobbling music to Last.fm |
| Turntable | GUI and CLI tool to scrobble your music |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| mpdscribble | Submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services |
| Scrobblet | Lightweight self-hosted service for recording listening activity |
| goscrobble | Simple music scrobbler daemon |
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