A thought on how to integrate MB and LB some more. What if you could see what albums youāve listened to, and how much, in MB?
Also a play button, that either takes you to ListenBrainz, or displays the LB the player component in the MB window.
Rough mockups - please donāt fixate on details.
Note: The āListensā toggle next to āFilterā would toggle between your stats and global stats. A few other things are missing but you get the gist.
Definitely think the āwidgetā thing looks best in the top right corner 
I feel like there could be a big toggle at the top to turn this on/off, allowing for much stronger overlays than what Iāve done there. Really highlight played vs unplayed albums!
It would be so cool if you could toggle this on any pageā¦ collections etc. Buttons to show stats for your listens on that entity, or compare to another users listens. Someone go code it 
If anyoneās wondering, @akshaaatt has already been devāing stronger tables:
begone bot! zzzap bang
Iām not too sure a play button is a good idea (since it moves MB dangerously close to āstreaming siteā territory, even if all it does behind the scenes is call another service).
But otherwise I think adding statistics like these is long overdue, since it massively reduces the perception of Metabrainz projects existing as their own isolated islands.
(nitpick: I would much prefer an āaverage listens per monthā or ālistens last monthā counter to a global all-time counter, since the latter is naturally biased for older entities)
What about the funky ListenBrainz logo? That might look nice
My thinking was: If a random internet user stumbles upon a MB entry, what will make them interact?
For me #1 was a play button. It was originally just a ālinkā icon but I changed it.
But agreed that it is a slippery slope re. being clear on what the function of each MetaBrainz site is. I donāt really want it getting too fuzzy either.
Since weāre in FantasyBrainz, letās make that selectable in the āListensā dropdown/toggles 
Sorry for making yet another RYM comparison, but I think the way they integrated the āplayā button on release pages is quite seamless and not disruptive enough for anyone think that RYM is a streaming service. I think that as long as itās just a widget and not a focal section of the page, it wonāt detract anyone from the main point of MB.
Also, I prefer LB stats as a section in the sidebar along with all the other stat info. But maybe itās just me, because I simply love this tiling design!
Oh, I didnāt know they had that! Thatās an easy candidate for the sidebar (they donāt have more than one play button per page, maybe Iām expecting people to want a level of granularity that they actually donāt).
Before click:
After click:
(doesnāt play in-page, they are links)
edit: now that I think about it, this is functionally the exact same as the āstream atā¦ā link we already have on MB pages. But the presentation is much more āaction orientatedā (e.g. press the play button to play)
For anyone who wants to have a taste of what the interaction could be like, Iāve made this userscript: MusicBrainz UserScript: play on ListenBrainz Ā· GitHub
Note: this does not represent the design efforts aerozol is working on, I just put this together quickly for myself.
p.s. not really important, but this script doesnāt seem to play nice with ropdebeeās import cover art script if anyone is having trouble there
Thanks for reporting the issue!
I donāt want to hijack the thread, just letting everyone know Iāve updated the userscript to fix the issue, sorry about breaking your stuff !
