Just yesterday, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Scrobbit by iOS developer iCraze that could automatically scrobble music from other music streaming apps to the Last.fm app on your jailbroken device. But as it would seem, Scrobbit has some healthy competition.
Also new in the jailbreak world is a new jailbreak tweak called Scrubble by iOS developer rootfsdev. It works in almost exactly the same way, working in the background to keep your Scrobbles in the Last.fm app apprised of what you’re listening to in other music streaming apps on your device.
I’m not much of a Last.fm user myself, so I was able to learn a lot about the Scrobbles feature from iOS developer iCraze when we discussed his Scrobbit jailbreak tweak. For those in the same boat, a ‘Scrobble’ is a fancy way of saying that you’ve listened to a song before, and this allows Last.fm to see you’ve listened to it and make algorithmic decisions based on what to play next based on your listening history.
Unfortunately, I haven’t heard back from rootfsdev and there are no details about what music streaming apps Scrubble supports in the tweak depiction via the Chariz repository, nor are there any screenshots showing how it works or the options one can configure for it.
What the depiction does tell us, however, is that Scrubble works in the background so that you never have to manually scrobble your music and that you need to use Last.fm credentials to make it work.
Scrubble is slightly cheaper than Scrobbit at $0.99 as opposed to $1.49, and it’s also open source. It’s worth noting that Scrobbit offers a fair number of options to configure for the price and the developer shares a dedicated list of supported apps that appears to be growing, so it’s up to the end user whether the savings for Scrubble is worth it or not.
If you’d like to give Scrubble a try, then you can purchase a copy for $0.99 from the Chariz repository via your favorite package manager app. The tweak supports jailbroken iOS 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 devices and is open source on the developer’s GitHub page for anyone who wants to learn more about how it works under the hood.
Do you think you’ll be taking advantage of Scrubbe or Scrobbit? Let us know in the comments section down below.
