Alternative for tracking sites (Listnd, RYM, ...)

ListenBrainz
1

Listnd is rarely up, rym is an html page with 5 lines of code and a weak database, the other sites just allow you to rate drake and kid cudi.

So, is there any way to use musicbrainz or Listenbrainz as a tracking site with manual additions, ratings from 1 to 10, log dates and a general profile display of all your logs?

3 Likes
2

Heya! I’m not sure exactly what you mean by ‘logs’, but I think the answer is yes.

In Musicbrainz collections work well, for heaps of entity types:
https://musicbrainz.org/user/aerozol/collections

A MB collection page shows ratings - if you have rated something in that list, your rating will show up as orange stars:
https://musicbrainz.org/collection/ac668219-3f0e-4f11-98a9-6d400e6479a2

If you are more interested in writing reviews, CritiqueBrainz is the place for that:
https://critiquebrainz.org/user/6ce51cdd-15b8-440d-93e1-774a620b9121
But without the collection/categorizing aspect.

If you are after a more ’like songs as I listen and create playlists’ tool, more social than technical/detailed, then ListenBrainz will do that:
https://listenbrainz.org/user/aerozol/

5 Likes
3

Great! I’ll use that. Thanks for the answer.
Is there any way, though, to rate out of 10 (2.5 stars or 5/10)?

4

MusicBrainz ratings are 0-100. ws/2 returns the rating as a floating point number scaled down to 0-5. If you want to rate something “5/10”, then in MusicBrainz it’s 50 out of 100.

2 Likes
5

You can only rate 1 to 5. What are you talking about?

1 Like
6

I’m talking about the MusicBrainz database. What you see in the MusicBrainz user interface is an obfuscation of what actually happens.

2 Likes
7

You can rate in percentage.
But it’s a hacky technique (that could be the purpose of a new userscript for easier use):

You can go to an entity, like Song “Giroflé, Girofla” - MusicBrainz and, there, you copy the URL of one of the stars:

https://musicbrainz.org/rating/rate/?entity_type=work&entity_id=12518686&rating=100&returnto=%2Fwork%2F23215b05-762d-4f59-99fa-96ca2da39a92

You can now change the value of the rating parameter to any percentage value between 0 (no ratings) to 100 (maximum rating), 1 being the minimum rating.

Then navigate to this custom URL.

4 Likes