there’s a ticket on the ScrobblerBrainz for MusicBee project for adding support for submitting listens from internet radio stations, and I wonder if there’s anything that should be added to the listen submission specific to radio, such as the station name/URL, or if music_service should be used (and if so, how?)
I feel like the decisions here can theoretically be expanded to over-the-air radio as well (tho I don’t know if there’s a program or hardware for actually doing this as of yet…)
Cool! I actually started coding a website to submit Listens of Internet Radio streams, without actually playing the stream (for the use case of listening via an OTA radio receiver and submitting the info from the station’s internet radio stream), but i currently do not have the time to bring it to completion or figure out where and how to host it…
Some extra thoughts on this …
When submitting listens for something being listened to via an Internet radio service I think it would be useful to have some extra fields available - for example
Broadcaster (domain and name)
Station (domain and name)
Programme name
There is already a provision for a single domain and name - with a few services automatically mapped from domain to service name (such as Spotify, Qobuz etc). That could be used here - but being able to separate the broadcaster (such as 1.fm) and the station (Cool Jazz) would be useful.
This would then, in theory, allow subsequent retrieval of data based on station (broadcaster & station) - and could be used for recommendations … if you like Band X then try station Y because they played 3 tracks (that our users seems to have listened to) in the last 24 hours.