Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
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tuvix
4 hours ago
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Super awesome!

I credit last.fm with showing me a lot of the music I love, it’s the perfect recommendation model and still the best social music platform so I’m definitely rooting for you to improve on it!

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tsiry
4 hours ago
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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.
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embedding-shape
3 hours ago
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If you can a find a way of A) getting live scrobbles from Last.fm into Rocksky without having to change the clients that are all using Last.fm already and/or B) get historical scrobbles out of Last.fm into Rocksky, I'd think you could potentially take over the ecosystem relatively quickly :)
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CharlesW
1 hour ago
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Tonight I'll be adding support for this in an app (Poppy.fm) that already supports both Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Apologies if I missed this, but am I understanding correctly that users must get a Rocksky API key? (In other words, there's no OAuth support for native iOS users who'll expect a "Sign in with Bluesky"-type flow?)
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tsiry
4 hours ago
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ssl-3
3 hours ago
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Thanks. From the FAQ, https://docs.rocksky.app/faq-918661m0

> What is Rocksky?

> Rocksky is a decentralized, open-source music tracking and discovery platform built on the AT Protocol. It works like Last.fm but publishes your listening history directly to your Bluesky account.

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Can we start a trend where we tell people what the thing is and what it does without making them dig around to find it?

I don't use Bluesky and don't plan to start. Rocksky really isn't for me.

While it's not like it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard,' this whole experience could have been concluded a lot faster if the project page simply described the function of the thing in a forthright fashion.

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MajorTakeaway
1 hour ago
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Instead of a line by line command copypaste, they really could have used a single post where users can just copy the commands and paste the set to terminal.
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DonsDiscountGas
31 minutes ago
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I really hate the word scrobble. I'm pretty tolerant of weird language as long as it can be understood, but this can't. Everybody who uses the word seems to think it's a normal word that everybody already knows or can figure out from context (so they never define it), but "scrobble your music" could mean a million things.
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matteomrj
3 hours ago
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Finally an Atmosphere app on HN, and it's also a very cool one!
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embedding-shape
3 hours ago
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Two if we're being pedantic, Tangled.org where this git repository is hosted it also a Atmosphere app ;)
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jbk
2 hours ago
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So you can scrobble and it gets you new music? But so, how can you listen to that new music?
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CharlesW
10 minutes ago
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You scrobble to record your listens, and then based on your listening history, there are many ways (in scrobblers and services that integrate with them) to get recommendations. Example: https://resources.onestowatch.com/how-lastfm-recommends-new-...
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phyzix5761
2 hours ago
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Can you add a youtube video of the song so it plays it on your site?
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tamimio
3 hours ago
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Lovely, will give it a try later today!

I ditched all music services and now navidrome+narjo combo, works perfectly well, flac, and with reverse proxy exposing the server there’s no need to vpn or anything, it’s a drop in replacement, and free.

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