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Allow me to spread the word about ListenBrainz. ListenBrainz is a FOSS project that aims to crowdsource listening data from digital music and release it under an open license. Basically it's Last.fm but better. Whatever you use to listen to music, you can probably link it up with ListenBrainz. All ListenBrainz listening data is available for all to use, commercially or not. Why should we give our listening data only to proprietary companies like Spotify and depend on them, when we can share it. If you've kept track of your what music you've listened to up to this point, don't worry, there are several ways to import them into ListenBrainz so you can keep an overview of all your music listening.

I am not working for ListenBrainz in any way, I just really like this project, and I had not seen much on Lemmy about them, so I'm happy to spread the word.

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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can I port my 15 years of last.fm data?

[–] LurkyMcLurkface@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Yes you can.

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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Forgive me if I’m a little excited but I was not expecting anything from MusicBrainz to be mentioned here! Don’t want to say it’s obscure but I never saw mentions of it at all on Lemmy. I helped out with ScrobblerBrainz (ListenBrainz plugin for MusicBee) and even made a manual scrobbler plugin for their tag editor (though it needs TLC). Glad to see some love for ListenBrainz here.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I switched to listenbrainz as soon as I discovered it. I have been using last.fm since it was called audioscrobbler and migrated all my collection there. There's some import bugs which make me need to manually replay my favorites in order to mark them in listenbrainz, but overall good process.

I love the public playlists feature. Finally a way to share playlists than doesn't rely on spotify or youtube.

It's neighbors discoverability needs more work though.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh that's pretty cool! I agree about sharing playlists being way too difficult.

I have been working on a solution for sharing playlists as part of my music sharing side-project Bongo. Right now you can technically do it but it doesn't work very well. My algorithm looks for the closest match when finding a playlist but sometimes they aren't exactly equivalent across different services.

That's probably confusing since I didn't explain what Bongo does right now. You can take a link from Spotify/YouTube/Apple Music and Bongo makes a page with links to that media on all three of the services. The idea was to make it easier to share music with friends.

You can check it out here: https://bongo.to

Here's an example of a shared song: https://bongo.to/?am=album%2Fback-on-74%2F1676151993%3Fi%3D1676152328

[–] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Recording of listens and then sharing it publicly allows to discoverability of more music.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I already use MusicBrainz data to properly name a file away my digital music collection. I contribute release info and revisions whenever I can to further that same goal. Plex uses MusicBrainz data to help me search, filter, and play through a music library that is honestly bigger than I could ever fully listen to. It just makes sense that I be able to integrate and leverage my listening data so that I can better find the tracks and releases I've "lost" in my own collection and find new music. It's even more of a bonus that all that data is open, so I feel more like I'm actually contributing something to society (even if it's as trivial as music data and listening habits) instead of just giving it away to a private company to sell or keep secret as they see fit.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While I like the concept of it being FOSS, I admit I think Last.fm is just the much more pleasant to use service

I even pay for Last.fm Premium cause I think it's worth paying for

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fair enough - I use both for different reasons, and am also thinking on getting Last.fm Pro in the future.

ListenBrainz has the ability of submitting more accurate data (i.e. specific recordings and releases, tied to MusicBrainz ofc) while last.fm has the better developer ecosystem (a lot of apps support it e.g. third party Apple Music Clients, the .fmbot Discord bot which I do pay monthly for). Not a huuuuge fan of Last.fm's way of handling artist names that have collabs or featured artists in them, but that might be the obsessive data nerd in me I guess (and I guess last.fm Pro can fix that)

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes the artist and stuff handling could def be better

What's the discord bot you pay for do?

I use AMWin Rich Precense for AM on Windows which connects to Discord

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

.fmbot is essentially a social bot for Discord that handles last.fm stuff that you can drop into a server. It's essentially the site but as a Discord bot, with some little trinkets here and there. It's all good fun, really, if you like the social aspect. I pay for the bot as my Last.fm account is relatively new, and it allows importing your listens from Spotify (through a GDPR request for extended listening history). I have requested ListenBrainz user dump support; they have considered supporting ListenBrainz but the main issue is that the API limits are worse than Last.fm's.

A lot of music servers use it for the social aspect. Chuu (named after the k-pop star) is a similar bot.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately the app is in a crash loop on my Pixel 8 Pro. I tried resetting it twice, but it looks like it's just broken on my device.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I'd recommend PanoScrobbler instead on your phone

[–] Jasje@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

App’s fixed now. Try version 2.4.1. It even has improved consistent scrobbling than before (but still rough around the edges)

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

sentences that sound made up but have actual meaning

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[–] BoneALisa@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would love to move off last.fm, but this doesn't support Plex, so that's a no-go for me... I did create an account though, so once they do I will happily move over lol.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if need be you can periodically import your listens from last.fm or libre.fm. I use both Last.fm and ListenBrainz since LB is better at storing accurate listen data (supported players can submit MusicBrainz IDs) but last.fm has a better developer ecosystem (apps like .fmbot have better integration with last.fm)

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem for me is it's an extra app to check and then, find the recommendations and then go back to my music app of choice and search for the recommendations. It needs a way of being implemented into current services.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Agree but Seems unlikely to happen. Couldn't it just run in background like a Shazam and identity songs by audio signatures regardless of source? Might be a bit resource intense but I don't think it will be long before most phones could support this.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know why lisenbrainz imported scrobbles that I removed from Lastfm so i decided to create a new account and started from zero. I don't check my listenbrainz stats because right now there is no cool features that differentiate it from lastfm.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does listenbrainz sync "likes" to musicbrianz?