Introducing Scrobble.life - your entertainment history lives on Hive now

Companies know a lot about your entertainment history but they mainly use it as a way to market you things based on what advertisers pay them for. None of that data is truly yours.

We built a stack that does the same thing at no cost as it writes to Hive using Resource Credits.

Hive Scrobbler - the browser extension

Hive Srobbler is a fork of Web Scrobbler that broadcasts to Hive via Hive Keychain instead of a private API. You drop it in your Chrome browser and it will automatically scrobble whatever you're listening to or watching on your browser, past a certain mark.

Music

Youtube, Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Tidal, Deezer, Apple Music + 9 more. Sixteen mainstream platforms covered.

Video

Netflix, Disney+, Max, Amazon Prime. Series + episode metadata is resolved through Wikipedia and Wikidata so each scrobble carries a clean title, IMDb ID, year, and poster URL. (We're deliberately using Wikipedia at launch as alternatives are costly)

Each scrobble is a custom_json op signed by your Hive account. Currently public and unencrypted but we plan on changing that for our customers who prefer anonymity of their entertainment.

Scrobble.life - the front door

The website is where your scrobbles become a profile other people can actually look at.

• Live ticker scrolling everyone's recent listens, clickon any song to load it to play using youtube embed on the website
• Ranking lists for all kinds of data from latest songs, latests comments, new songs, top scrobblers, playthrough leaders
• Synced lyrics on songs we are able to fetch from LRCLIB
• Timed comments posted onto @peakd's latest snaps and fetched from there for registered users, read what people have had to say about certain parts of songs, also general comments that aren't timestamped.
• Manual entries for movies/tv/podcasts, while our scrobbler does work with these sections as well, we allow manual entry input here if you've been entertained outside of your browser and wanna log it

You can browse the website without an account, logging in using keychain (posting key auth) on the website automatically logs you into the extension as well.

What's interesting about this

• your scrobble history, if public, is portable, others can build tools out of it that we may not have thought of
• timed comments are hive comments, thus immutable and can earn hive rewards from curators, we just fetch them and place them in the right spot
• you can check what your fellow hivers are listening to and listen to it on the spot, the hive scrobbler works on scrobble.life as well, you may also search already scrobbled songs right on the website!

Future features

Coming up next

Hive follower sync so you can check scrobble feeds of the hive accounts you're following

Chrome Web Store Listing

Light recommendation surface built off your own history and your followers/friends

In the more distant future

Mobile app scrobbler

The thing we're most excited about is agentic LLM's checking your rich scrobble history to provide you with suggestions based on your taste rather than influenced by advertisers/the platform. It's not just algorithmic guesses based on music genre tags and top listens, the richer your scrobbling history and social activity around songs, the better AI will be able to know what will work on you to give you something you have a chance of enjoying.

Music discovery is very centralized in this day and age and many people stop listening to anything new around a certain age, we wanna change that and fine-tune the parameters to be able to find music to your liking no matter how popular or mainstream the band or song is.

How to try it today

The extension exists as a downloadable .zip file on our front-page, it is currently not on the Chrome Web Store yet, this means you have to do a few extra steps to load it in your browser:

1. enable developer mode in your extension page
2. click on "load unpacked" and search for your extracted folder of Hive scrobbler

Things to look out for

Bugs! Let us know if you find any here in the comments, we don't wanna create discord servers as there's already too many different ones splitting up the small hive community

Some times the songs you're listening to on youtube or spotify may not find the exact match on the other, we're improving the ways it fetches information so an identical song counts as one scrobble but it's a trial and error process as we go. We may include a function for the account that first scrobbled the song to include the working link and be rewarded for it with some hive.

Videos are currently very frail and due to the way youtube accounts categorize, or lack thereof, it is hard for our scrobbler to properly list them in the video category over the music one and vice versa. Something to keep in mind!

For movies/tv/podcasts the search function may not be perfect as it relies on Wikipedia API. Once we grow with a userbase and find out ways to potentially monetize the project without giving in to advertisers or things that may affect your scrobble experience, we may enrich our API usage to improve your experience finding the exact match you were looking for.

lastly, scrobbles stored on hive are immutable. While we can, upon request, remove your username's history off of our website as well as in-house storage of your scrobbles and activities, we cannot delete data off of the blockchain. This is something we have to make clear to future scrobblers joining us in from the outside as here most probably understand this caveat.

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Let us know what other browsers you'd want our extension to exist on and how your experience was trying out our app!