Hello, I’ve enjoying using picard to redo my music collection, and using listenbrainz to track my listening.
I’ve got one next step I want to do however, and I am not sure how.
I very much enjoy making playlists on my plex server, and rating my music, but I’m not sure how to keep this updated, and usable for collaborative playlists.
Almost all of what I have has MBIDs, and it’s ratings through plex, with me unsure how to try and keep this up to date. I want to upload my Playlists, and ratings however all I’ve seen were a few scripts I am not 100% certain on how they work.
I have been running plex for a while, but would be up to consider a swap if there is something where I can have my ratings and playlists automatically sync with listenbrainz. (Ideally with the ability to download to listen offline as well on mobile, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers) I’m just a bit intimidated with what it takes to get a server like nevidrome working outside my home network.
Or if there was just an easy explanation to import it somehow.
I think you’re in luck – we’re actively building tools to support what you want.
The base assumptions:
Your whole collection is tagged with MBIDs.
You have a Subsonic API available. I’m not sure that Plex does. But through this API the music in the collection will be discovered and local metadata/info will be used (e.g. playcounts).
I am in the process of creating ListenBrainz-Local, which will package a few recommendation tools for local use – most notably LB Radio for making playlists from your data. ListenBrainz local will have its own API (which is much easier to do than to shoe-horn our recommendation tools into several music projects like navidrome – not to mention the atrocious metadata practices these projects have).
From this web interface you can run the discovery tools and make playlists – then you can listen to those playlists from your favorite subsonic player.
This is great news! I currently have a subsonic API (navidrome) and music tagged with MBIDs (with beets). Is there something I can use now? Or somewhere I can learn more when it’s ready?
Yes, I have most of my music properly tagged directly via Picard, with no manual editing of files there, and I am in the process of Re-Ripping to FLAC (I previously was ripping or editing to 128kbs for mobile, and nobody wants that when you finally get decent headphones)
I currently do not, but have been looking. Been at going over to navidrome because of smart playlists in regard to other smart playlists, however I really like the sonic analysis (for the basic sonic adventure, but the rest seems like it fits in?) , and lyrics (then again I can just manually do it with some other stuff) just with the big worry of setting it up securely myself.
Definetly think it would be the perfect solution depending on how easy it is to use as someone who knows a bit of computers, but not much proper hosting.
Nothing yet – its all pretty much in development chaos still or simply not great/easy to use yet. I would say, keep your eyes peeled on the this forum, because that is where I will post when I am ready for people to start playing with it.
(Now I just need to finish the never ending next-gen MBID mapping project first and then I can return to this project!)