ScrobbleRadio is a streaming radio player for a curated list of radio stations from around the world. There are a ton of radio streaming apps out there, but none that did so with a scrobbling first focus. That was the primary goal, to gather a bunch of great radio stations that have publicly accessible metadata and make an app that could scrobble the songs to last.fm, libre.fm and ListenBrainz. For years I had struggled with finding a reliable way to scrobble radio on the go. There were many apps that allowed you to scrobble music, or listen to radio streams, but rarely both.

ScrobbleRadio is primarily focused on Indie and the many facets of music that can branch off that genre. A lot of the stations are very freeform and can play a broad selection of music that can venture into rock, alternative, hip-hop, pop, jazz, soul, funk, country, electronic or dance from a wide span of eras. Many of the stations are public radio, college stations or listener supported organizations. If your goal is music exploration and hearing tons of different, interesting and challenging music, you've found the right place.

Given the nature of these stations, sometimes they might be playing talk segments, or some genre you're simply not interested in. That's cool, just skip to the next station like you would with your car radio. You genuinely never know what you might hear next.

ScrobbleRadio relies on Web Scrobbler browsers extensions for iOS/iPadOS (Safari), and desktop browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari and other modern browsers) on macOS, Windows and Linux. Android scrobbling can be done by Pano Scrobbler. I considered building scrobbling functionality for the site, but relying on existing, robust scrobbling apps that support last.fm, libre.fm, ListenBrainz and Maloja just made more sense.

That's totally fine. ScrobbleRadio was built with scrobbling music in mind, but it's a perfectly functional radio player if that's not your thing. The goal of this app was to reliably be able to show the metadata from streaming radio sources and try to fill in gaps in album and album art whenever possible.

This app has been briefly tested to function on Android, but has been first and foremost been optimized to work well on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

ScrobbleRadio does its best to clean up the data coming from a radio station source, but it can be imperfect. Music metadata is complex and easy to get mixed up. Songs with guest vocalists and collaborations are a nightmare and given the data is coming radio stations around the world, there is little consistency. This app is a best effort to clean-up the incoming data, removing data like (2007 Remaster), (Radio Edit) or (Clean Version). It checks with the last.fm api whether there's corrections for the song and artist. But sometimes there's just things you can't account for like human error (spelling mistakes), or maybe a long song name getting truncated in the stations database.

If 100% scrobble accuracy is necessary for you, there is a setting in Web Scrobbler called "Scrobble recognized or edited tracks (default)" which would only scrobble a song if it's properly identified or edited. Then there is a Cache that you can review the disallowed scrobbles and edit them manually.

This website can be used with Apple Carplay and pretty much anywhere else that supports the mediaSession API. While this is an web app that can be run anywhere, it does have some playback quirks when being used in a car. This app relies on the built-in Now Playing app in Carplay to show the song data. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anything similar for Android Auto 🤷🏼‍♂️

• Playback on iOS can be initiated before you start driving. Simply open the site in Safari, pick a station and playback should start and the song, artist, station name and album cover should be visible on screen.
• You can use the in-car media controls to switch between stations. Playback will continue for the current station until the new audio stream begins loading. There is an on-screen notice of what station is loading. You can skip multiple stations if you're looking for a particular station.
• If playback stops while driving due to poor mobile data coverage, the app will keep trying to load the feed. If it pauses for awhile, try skipping to the next station and back again and it should initiate a new session. As iOS only allows access to play/pause, next and previous track, unfortunately there's no way to reload a feed directly with Carplay.
• Resume playback after leaving the car and coming back seems to be hit-and-miss. If it's been a short period of time, it will sometimes just resume playing the session. Otherwise you'll just need to go into Safari and start playing music again.
• Be sure to obey local traffic laws and not use your phone while driving.