Install Rocksky from Google Play
Get the Android app and start scrobbling from your music players.
Set up scrobbling
1
Sign in to Rocksky
Install the Rocksky Android app
and sign in to the account where you want to save your listens.
2
Open the scrobbling settings
Go to Profile > Scrobbling. Make sure Scrobble other apps is on.
Scrobbling and newly detected players are enabled by default.
3
Allow notification access
Go to Profile > Scrobbling > Manage Notification access and give
Rocksky permission to read notifications in Android’s settings.
Return to Rocksky when you finish.Android may also ask permission to show notifications. That permission
controls Rocksky’s ongoing service notification; you still need to grant
notification access so Rocksky can detect music from other apps.
4
Check your music apps
Under Apps to scrobble, leave the players you want to track switched
on. Other media players appear automatically when detected. Turn a player
off to stop collecting new listens from it.
5
Play a track
Start music in an enabled player. The scrobbling screen should show
Listening in the background and a DETECTED NOW card with the track.
After it qualifies, the card changes to LISTEN SAVED.
This feature requires a native Android build of Rocksky. It is not available
in Expo Go or on iOS. Rocksky’s own player is excluded from this listener
because it already has its own scrobbling support.
Choose when a track counts
In When to scrobble, the default Listening time mode saves a play after 50% of the track or 4 minutes of actual listening, whichever comes first. Tracks with a known duration below 30 seconds are skipped. Pauses, buffering, and seeking forward do not add listening time. If the duration is unavailable, Rocksky uses the configured time in seconds. You can change Maximum listening time (seconds), Track percentage, and Minimum track length (seconds), then tap Save timing. Tap Restore default timing to reset these settings. Choose Track position to save when playback reaches a particular position instead. Seeking to that position can qualify the play. A track shorter than the selected position cannot qualify.Scrobble recognized music
Turn on Music recognition and enable the recognition app under Apps to scrobble. Rocksky reads supported recognition-result notifications; these results do not have a playback position.
Repeated recognitions of the same track are suppressed for five minutes.
Album information is included when the recognition app supplies it.
Newer Pixel Now Playing versions may hide recognition data. If the notification
does not expose a supported title and artist, Rocksky cannot record it.
Background listening and offline uploads
The native listener can continue with the screen off and without keeping the Rocksky screen open. If your phone restricts background activity, tap Background & battery settings and allow unrestricted battery usage for Rocksky. Android force-stop suspends detection until you reopen the app. Qualifying listens are saved on your device before upload. Offline queue shows how many are waiting, whether any need a retry, and the last upload time. Uploads resume automatically when you have a connection and scrobbling is enabled, even with the app closed. Queued listens keep their original listening timestamps. LISTEN SAVED means the listen has been saved locally; it may still be waiting to upload. Check your Rocksky profile after the queue drains to see your plays. Turning off Scrobble other apps pauses both collection and uploads without deleting queued listens. Turning off an individual player stops new collection from that player. Saved listens stay tied to the account that collected them; signing in to another account does not upload them to that account.Troubleshooting
- No track appears: Check that you are signed in, notification access is enabled, and the player is on under Apps to scrobble. Start playback again. The player must provide both a title and an artist.
- Tracking stops with the screen off: Allow unrestricted battery usage and reopen Rocksky if you force-stopped it.
- Listens stay queued: Check your connection and turn on Scrobble other apps. Sign in again if your session has expired, using the account that collected the listens. Tap Retry saved listens to retry failed uploads.
- A play appears twice: Disable overlapping scrobbling for the same player in other integrations, such as Pano Scrobbler or a separate Spotify connection.