YouTube Music iOS Scrobbling: Part 2
I had wrapped up the last post about this (YouTube Music Scrobbling on iOS) suggesting FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler. While this is a great tool, with YouTube Music specifically it had a few issues due to how the YTM API works. If you are interested, you can read the issues, #156 and #158. The first being songs are sometimes scrobbled multiple times to Last.fm, the second issue being YTM invalidating the token every 30 minutes or so.
So now what?
The Solution
I ended up commissioning my friend Mario to make a tweak for the iOS app that can be loaded with side-loading or via a jailbreak.
marioparaschiv
However, I also have my fork of it that adds a dockerfile to build it, which will net consistent results regardless of your system's configuration, and without the need to download any SDKs.
SomeAspy
In both cases, it is quite easy to do. I've written the readme file for both to be easy to follow, so I will skip detailing it and just suggest you follow the readme on the repository.
Additionally, since this is only a tweak you need the original .ipa file to inject it into. While there are several websites that host .ipa files for various apps, I host YTM .ipa files I pull from my jailbroken iPhone 8 at https://ipa.aspy.dev/youtube_music/stable/
You can also pull your own using Frida, but I believe a jailbroken device is required to extract .ipa files.
