Next, it mght be useful to be able to discuss with other people that also have the same albums in their own collections and/or at least be able to follow their listening. Once the information is in my LBz account, it would be useful to me if it, firstly, hyperlinked to the releases I own (these have been added to my collections in MBz). I want to scrobble or be able to manually input directly to LBz. Scrobblers that scrobble to Last.fm and require me to get their file and have the information sent to LBz are uselss. I do not have a Last.fm account nor do I want one. It is tedious, but at least it would accurately record my listening. These listens, too, are lost.Īpart from getting infallible ListenBrainz support in these applications, what would help me the most is a way to manually enter listens, preferably by album, not by track, as I listen to full albums about 99.99% of the time. Then, there are listens on NML (Naxos Music Library) and Youtube. These listens, about 95% of my listening, are lost. I have ripped my extensive collection to flac and have the files stored on my QNAP NAS. Nevertheless, these only work when I listen on my laptop, which is almost never. I have had problems with my favourite players, VLC and Juk (amarok is not yet ported to kde5/qt5, so I have not been able to try it). I would like to use LBz more, but many players do not or only imperfectly support mpris (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification). Recording listening stats with only UTC timestamps (no matter how accurate the format) means actually losing data, because fixed points in time require fixed location info. So if I live in France for a few months during winter (UTC+01:00) listetning to music in the evenings, and then move to Singapore (UTC+08:00), I want my French listens to still point to evenings and not suddenly move to middle of the nights, just because my system clock is now in a different tz! I think it’s really, really important for data integrity because people sometimes travel around the world and change time zones. So it could be settled with ranges - all listens between dates X and Y were recorded in the time zone Z. But in the end this kind of information doesn’t even need to be recorded with every single listen, because humans don’t teleport between different timezones yet. I’m not sure if it’s that much of a hassle to append time zone info to unix timestamps (like last.fm uses), not to mention ridiculously long LDAP timestamps (like in foobar2000). This is something I found lacking in all of playback statistics tools I’ve ever used. I’m really curious to get feedback from everyone on how they use ListenBrainz and what they’d want improved or what features they’d want added. What’s a feature that would improve your ListenBrainz experience or make you want to use it more? Maybe it’s something we’re already working on, maybe it’s something we haven’t even thought of. What I’m really interested to know is what makes YOU excited to use ListenBrainz. I recently worked on incremental data dumps to make consumption of our relatively large data easier programmatically. Right now, we have cool recommendations in the pipeline ( ). We added automatic Spotify imports and some cool music discovery features such as following other people ( ListenBrainz release: Spotify account linking and our first music discovery features!). Feedback and user experiences can really help us improve ListenBrainz and make it more useful for everyone!įor context, we shipped some stuff in the past that we personally wanted out of ListenBrainz. Hi everyone! I’m one of the devs who work on ListenBrainz and I was hoping to get some opinions on stuff that users would like to see in ListenBrainz in the near future.
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