I'd like to develop a scrobbler application for Roon

Hi @FoxxMD,
I’m the developer of the rooExtend platform offering a set of easy to install Roon Extensions.

rooExtend – The easy start with Roon Extensions - Audio Gear Talk / rooExtend - Roon Labs Community

Maybe it might be interesting to integrate such a “scrobbler” service in my platform to be used with Roon. At the moment I don’t know:

  • What exactly is scrobbling?
  • What’s the use of it?
  • What the user has to do to use it?
  • What has to be done to integrate a scrobbler into Roon?

Would you please be so kind to explain this to me :pray:

Best DrCWO

EDIT:
As far as I read now the multi-scrobbler reads information of played tracks and send this to a database (e.g. Last.fm). For me it looks easy to build a Roon Extension with a web interface (or websocket) that delivers the Track title, Artist and Album name. Even for Radio Stations delivering meta information this seems to be possible.

Next question:
Is it also necessary to offer the reverse path? This means receiving Track information and play back this in Roon?