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I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you’re going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:
(I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)
You can also self-host with Maloja and Multi-scrobbler. This is the most privacy-respecting-option.
https://github.com/krateng/maloja
https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler
I rolled them out with Docker and imported my Last.fm listening history using this tool:
Those suggetions sound cool!
There’s also Koito as a Maloja alternative. The Maloja UI was always slow and clunky when I was trying it out.
Navidrome lets you do both so if you’re a self-hoster, you don’t have to choose which is nice!
For those wondering who owned Last.fm, it was CBS Interactive/Paramount Streaming.
Oof. Well, glad they got out then
Jesus, maybe some broadcasting freedom hope?
Its a good thing in my opinion since:
- Paramount is a public company and I heard some bad stuff about them like Keeping Spongebob to make extra money even after the creator died. (i kinda dont have strong opinions on public companies but still a good thing they became independent.)
- Paramount will be partially state owned if they merge with WB (heard that somewhere)
If the Paramount deal goes ahead, it’ll be 49.5% foreign owned, of which some state actors ike the Saudis via their PIF having ownership.
if the PIF is gonna buy it,no.
What do you mean, no?
https://www.top1000funds.com/asset_owner/public-investment-fund-pif/
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world and was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund has been controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler since 2015.
The government is going to own a large part if the merger happens.
Holy shit.
I have been struggling with a not-quite-perfect scrobbling setup between Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler because I was trying to slowly move away from Last.fm because of lack of trust in ownership.
If they can pull this off and truly be independent again, I will actually stop moving away from them for a while.
Listenbrainz works great for me. What’s your problem with it?
I was just looking for a most self-hosty and privacy respecting solution initially. I will keep running it alongside Last.fm in case there’s a reason I need to dump Last.fm or if I decide I don’t want my listening habits on a public site.
EDIT: To be more clear, I have no issues with Listenbrainz at all, I just wanted to self-host.
It still around?! Blast from the past!
Holy… I never disconnected my last.fm account from Spotify, now I have 20 years of history. WOW
Hell yeah!
I remember using it back when it was called “Audioscrobbler”. I think the “scrobbler” part stuck around somehow?
Yep, it’s still called scrobbling. I have very old tracks in my history that don’t have any timestamps because of the imperfect database changeover when they went from Audioscrobbler to Last.fm. I found that out when exporting my scrobbles to use elsewhere and noticed that my earliest scrobbles weren’t actually pulling timestamps at all, and it was defaulting to them all played on the same day at the same time.
Actually found so much good music this way. Good times.
Oh this is fantastic, I might dust off my old account
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Well, then. I guess I’m just SOL
what’s your browser? my firefox and chromium both work.
Kiwi (chromium mobile, supports extensions) + ublock + pihole tends to break some sites. I lol’d at the modern browser message
I also have uBlock in Firefox and AdGuardHome running in my LAN. Guess it’s something about Kiwi (haven’t heard of it)
I mean, yea, sure. But it’s just chromium. And it’s just this discourse support site. They’re reading something from the UA and blocking access for falsely stated reasons. I’m not that hard up about it, it’s just dumb
I’m on Fennec, a Mozilla derivative for Android
“Your request was blocked. To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe. Please try clearing your cookies and refreshing the page. If the problem persists, try again later or on a different computer network.”
Haha that’s amazing. You unsafe deviant!
Trying to recover my old account but supposedly “TrustMeBroThisIsSuperSecure” is not sufficient. Fucks sake, even I would have trouble just typing that in.
As someone who has scrobbled religiously since 2014, this is great news
I didn’t realise it was still a thing.
I heard of it before, well atleast they didn’t sell it to TPE.
