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New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:41:47 +0000

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 most recommendations are based on listening similarity/social data rather than heavy AI models. The nice thing with ATProto is that the social graph and listening history are open, which makes it possible to experiment with different recommendation approaches. There's definitely still a lot of work to do there.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:12:46 +0000

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 should work for basic auth + submit/scrobble. The current limitation is that Rocksky doesn't implement the full ListenBrainz API yet, so anything beyond auth + submitting listens may not work the same way. I'm trying to keep this path as simple as possible because compatibility with existing scrobblers is important for adoption.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:06:23 +0000

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 automatically tracking the music you listen to (songs, artists, albums, listening history, stats, recommendations, etc.). I should probably explain that more clearly on the repo/site.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:58:51 +0000

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.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:51:00 +0000

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 scrobble state to avoid duplicates, and Rocksky doesn't only publish a scrobble record. It may also need to publish related records like artist, album, and track metadata. So I'd like to make the integration easier, but it needs a bit more than "just OAuth".

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:36:04 +0000

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

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:12:52 +0000

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 modern approach to it with ATProto.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

tsiry — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:31:12 +0000

https://rocksky.app

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

tsiry — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161881

Points: 111

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New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

tsiry — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:23:41 +0000

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/discovery features, while still staying open and developer-friendly. Still very actively developed, but if you're interested I'd love to hear feedback from longtime scrobbler users

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

tsiry — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:27:44 +0000

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-tested DSP chain (crossfeed, EQ, replaygain, dithering), gapless playback that actually works everywhere, codec coverage most players have given up on (Musepack, WavPack, ...). It's a lot of mature work to throw away.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

tsiry — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:14:40 +0000

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/WASAPI/etc.

Rockbox already brings its own decoders (20+ codecs), its own DSP chain (crossfeed, EQ, replaygain, gapless), and its own mixer. I just need the host OS to accept PCM frames. cpal is the minimal portable shim for that; pulling in libmpv would mean discarding Rockbox's audio pipeline and replacing it with FFmpeg's, which would basically defeat the point of building on Rockbox firmware.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

tsiry — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:43:32 +0000

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, the sheer hackability, nothing else has come close since.

I've wanted that same experience on my desktop for years. So I'm basically trying to bring Rockbox to macOS and Linux as a daemon I can use every day, with MPD-style control on top.

New comment by tsiry in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

tsiry — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:14 +0000

https://rockboxzig.mintlify.app

Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

tsiry — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074668

Points: 122

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Hacking Rockbox to Stream Audio over HTTP

tsiry — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:45:33 +0000

Article URL: https://rockbox-desktop.leaflet.pub/3mjmq7yiqd22z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795037

Points: 1

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