# Disable Android "Now Playing" Passive Listens

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disable-android-now-playing-passive-listens/670381
**Category:** ListenBrainz
**Tags:** app, android
**Created:** [December 16, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disable-android-now-playing-passive-listens/670381 "2023-12-16T14:42:26Z")
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### Author: ![mukti](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/mukti/32/69828_2.png) [@mukti](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mukti)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disable-android-now-playing-passive-listens/670381/6 "2023-12-19T02:27:03Z")

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This appears to be a different bug, and the app may be picking up random notifications. Here is an example where it logged my password database as a listen…

```auto
{
  "track_metadata": {
    "track_name": "Database opened",
    "artist_name": "(V2 - KDBX3.1)",
    "additional_info": {
      "media_player": "KeePassDX",
      "submission_client": "ListenBrainz Android",
      "submission_client_version": "2.4.1",
      "recording_msid": "db8844f9-25dc-41a1-a3ba-3482d0089fc9"
    }
  },
  "listened_at": 1702834878,
  "recording_msid": "db8844f9-25dc-41a1-a3ba-3482d0089fc9",
  "user_name": "mukti",
  "inserted_at": 1702834968
}
```

I’m going to disable the app for now because of this - I would rather not have random notifications logged to my profile, in case it mistakenly leaks some more personal information.

This may be related to another issue reported by a user here: [Exclude podcasts from listens? - #6 by Goose90053](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/exclude-podcasts-from-listens/670246/6)

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