ListenBrainz - Track and share the music you listen to

PropaGandalf@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 52 points –

Hello everyone

Yes I know, a few months ago a post with the exact same title was shared in this community by @test626@lemmy.ml. But this was at a time when lemmy was still quite small. I would like to give the topic new momentum.

From their wiki:

ListenBrainz is a project by the MetaBrainz foundation which allows you to publicly store a record of all of the songs that you listen to. Using this data, we provide statistics, recommendations, and a platform for you and other developers to explore this data.

Many of you probably use a music streaming service. You share your user data with the company anyway, and some of it with others. If you feel like it, you can make your data available to the general public and help other open source apps to build their services on this data.

Website: https://listenbrainz.org/
Wiki: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Main_Page
Github: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server
ListenBrainz Android:

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Neat.

So this is like Last.fm, but run by the MusicBrainz folks?

Yes, it's pretty awesome. And they've slowly been adding more and more features

As someone who has used Last.fm for 19 years but lately looking for better music discovery options, I'll give this a go.

You can import all your data natively!

That's a big reason why I'm giving it a go! Currently importing page 1200 of 1800.

Definitely going to check this out when I get home.

Aside from last.fm, can it connect+import history from other services, like Spotify?

Yes spotify is supported as well. Unfortunately Tidal isn't. But if you are on linux and you are using Tidal you could download the tidal-hifi client which bas a listenbrainz integration or you could download the listenbrainz app which can sync data from multiple clients including all music streaming services, newpipe, odysee, ...

you can make your data available to the general public and help other open source apps to build their services on this data.

I like this idea.

I know I'm being lazy, but is the data sold? Are we just giving away our data for somebody else to monetize?

Glad you aksed: Firstly all the software used by the project is fully open source and all data is licensed under the CC0 license.

Yes I know, a few months ago a post with the exact same title was shared [...]

I think reposting after 7+ months is more than ok regardless :)

This looks interesting. It looks geared to importing data from a service (like Spotify), how would one import data from the radio or mp3 files? I don't really stream music but love the idea of new ways to find new music.

https://listenbrainz.org/add-data/

There is a lot of import options:

  • Direct integrations like Last.fm or Spotify
  • music clients like VLC or Rythmbox
  • streaming solutions like Jellyfin, Kodi or Funkwhale
  • the android ListenBrainz app for all your streaming apps, NewPipe/YoutTube, Odysee, ...