As part of the MusicBrainz summit we decided a 2023 focus for ListenBrainz developments is features or improvements that bring in new users. A large part of this is helping you share the good word of LB among your friends, family and congregations.
So, we would like to ask: What would help you to share LB, snippets of your LB listening/profile, and so on, with others?
Think about:
What would you share
How and where would you share it (social media as well as other services/things/dreams)
What other things do you share, and how do they make it easy/harder
it took me a bit to think of something, but sharing playlists and albums over Discord is the main way I share music stuff these days. I quite like how Spotify embeds a player into chats and channels (it only plays 30-second track previews here):
if we can do something similar, that would be excellent~ if not, nice looking embeds would be a great substitute. for example, Bandcamp, ListenBrainz, and YouTube Music in three seperate messages:
I donât know how Discord does it in particular, but Iâd imagine it works kinda similarly for other platforms like Snapchat, Twitter, and most text messaging apps.
edit: another way to share ListenBrainz more passively could be to share what youâre currently listening to, like Spotify already does with a widget on your Discord profile:
another edit: I think another welcome addition would be to add pages for artists, releases, and recordings, kinda like weâve already got on CritiqueBrainz
Is it possible to put a header on the LB website advertising this thread? Like the database update alerts you get on MB. I donât think a lot of LB users are going to be aware of this thread otherwise.
Some things I can think of
Topsters equivalent where you generate a grid of the albums youâve been listening to that week/month/year/all time
Discord bot
FOSS widget for your personal website
âNow playingâ bot for Twitter and other social media, might be useful for some independent radio stations?
