I am a new ListenBrainz user, but I have been using Last.fm for a few months. After registering, I linked my Last.fm account to ListenBrainz and successfully imported my old scrobbles.
I would like to keep both my profiles active on both sites.
Currently, all my music players are sending data only to Last.fm, and the scrobbles are automatically updated on ListenBrainz through the linking of my accounts.
Now that the data is aligned, is it better to leave the two accounts linked or to unlink the two profiles and send the scrobbles directly to ListenBrainz as well? What would be the advantage of the second solution?
As far as I know it depends where you submit from and what you use to submit.
Last.fm only gets very basic metadata, e.g. artist, album, track. But I often submit listens to ListenBrainz using the Foobar2000 plugin, which also sends a range of MBIDs with the listen (which means ListenBrainz knows exactly what recording or release version I have listened to).
Basically, depending on how you submit, you may lose some data in the round trip from last.fm to LB. But if you scrobble from a service like Spotify, or your files aren’t precisely tagged, I doubt you’re losing anything.
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Thank you for the answer!
I think I’ll start uploading data directly to ListenBrainz.
If I do that, should I disconnect my Last.fm account from ListenBrainz to avoid the risk of having duplicate scrobbles? Or can I leave it as it is now?
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Definitely disconnect your last.fm sync if you are going to submit to both, I think. Untangling duplicates (if they happen) is a massive pain!