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ListenBrainz passes 25k users! (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does listenbrainz sync "likes" to musicbrianz?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean. I don't think there is a like function in MusicBrainz, is there? You can 'love' or 'hate' tracks in ListenBrainz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

On MusicBrainz there's a 1-5 rating. A "like" could be a synced a 5 ⭐ rating.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Star ratings are kinda dumb in most situations.

The average user doesn't think about how much they like or dislike something. They're either neutral towards it (no interaction), they like it or they dislike it.

Most people's libraries will probably be full of 1 star and 5 stars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There was a (small) user survey to see how our MetaBrainz forum members use ratings. Not a big enough sample size, nor from a broad enough spread of users, to take as gospel, but still interesting: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/the-future-of-ratings/604271/57

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

So ListenBrainz is a music app? I don't know what Last.fm is. Seems like Pandora maybe?

I'll download it if they're providing a service like music recommendation, not really seeing the benefit to me if they just record the data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I paired my Spotify account with ListenBrainz and they also sent me a playlist last year with my most listened songs from 2022 for what it's worth.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I dislike having to use Spotify b/c of the crap royalties the artists get from it. isn't this worse for the artists?

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