🚀 Listening Post β4 is out now!
ICYMI: ambient #macOS 15.6+ music recognition app, scrobbles to #ListenBrainz, #LastFm, local files, and Shortcuts. Has support for #AppleMusic, LB, #Deezer.
New in Beta 4: I've added support for ListenBrainz-compatible scrobblers! Track durations are now stored as well. And a couple of bugs were fixed.
Give it a spin! https://actions.work/listening-post?ref=mastodon
🚧 Hard at work on Listening Post Beta 5:
- "Now Playing" widgets!
- Auto-trigger Shortcuts workflows on like, unlike, and delete!
- Restructured track menu!
- Adjustments to the ListenBrainz-compatible channel!
- Bug fixes!
Out soon™
🚀 Listening Post β5 was just released, my always-on #macOS #music recognition app. This update brings:
- "Now playing" desktop widgets ✨
- Configure #Shortcuts workflows that fire automatically when you like, unlike, or forget a track
- Track menu overhaul
Website: https://actions.work/listening-post?ref=mastodon
Release notes: https://forum.actions.work/t/beta-2026-0-5-beta-5/828?ref=mastodon
Spread the word, I definitely could use some more testers ✌🏼
🚧 Hard at work on Listening Post PUBLIC BETA 6, and frens, it is a juicy one! I've rebuilt a lot of things to prepare for a lot of other things. Excitement! 🤩
I've also come to the conclusion that once again, I probably won't be able to sell an app in the Mac App Store because in order to make it *solid* for customers it has to do things that Apple disapproves of (this time, fixing OS-level issues). 🤷🏻♂️
Listening Post #beta 6 is out! ICYMI: that's my always-on music recognition app for #macOS. Supports several scrobblers and music services, and it's still WIP.
Public beta 6 adds
- support for Rocksky.app (an ATproto-based scrobbler)
- support for multiple @ListenBrainz-compat scrobblers at once
- better data on music recognitions, c/o the @musicbrainz foundation
Help me test!
Website: https://actions.work/listening-post
Release notes: https://forum.actions.work/t/beta-2026-0-6-beta-6/836
Work on #ListeningPost beta 7 continues! This week I'll work on…
- adding #Spotify support (like/unlike, add track to playlist)
- better #AppleMusic support
- fixing CSV & JSONL export
- Bluesky support
Let's roll!
https://actions.work/listening-post #IndieDev #BuildInPublic
Well, there goes my plan of making #Spotify support available in #ListeningPost.
I can either allow 5 (five) people access to my app in dev mode (good for, you know, development), or I can ask Spotify for upgrading it to non-dev mode ("extended quota"). But those rules:
250k MAU just to be able to apply‽ GTFO
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes
🚀 Listening Post: Beta 7 of my always-on #macOS music recognizer & #scrobbler is out!
Today: support for #Bluesky and #Spotify (bare-bones: their decision, not mine), and QoL improvements!
→ https://actions.work/listening-post?ref=mastodon
Release notes: https://forum.actions.work/t/beta-2026-0-7-beta-7/844
And while I'm happy with the app already, I think it needs another name. I like the stupid half-assed pun "Post your listens" → "Listening Post", but I suspect I'm the only person. Hmm.
@czottmann Looks nice!
FYI, my music player Radiccio has an API in case you might like to integrate… https://rg.crispycrunchy.computer/features/automation#activity-data
Sample code: https://github.com/CrispyCrunchyComputerware/Listener
@dmd Neat! Good app, that 👍🏼
But Listening Post's shtick is always-on recognition, basically on a repeating timer. It's not tied to any apps or sources that way but it's also less deterministic. I got fed up w/ all the scrobblers that supported just Apple Music or Spotify and nothing else.
Carlo Zottmann
dmd