# What do YOU want in ListenBrainz? **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-do-you-want-in-listenbrainz/444888 **Category:** ListenBrainz **Tags:** en, feedback, feature-request, listenbrainz **Created:** [September 25, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-do-you-want-in-listenbrainz/444888 "2019-09-25T04:26:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 11
### Author: ![jwheel](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jwheel/32/109103_2.png) [@jwheel](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jwheel) #### Post date: [September 27, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-do-you-want-in-listenbrainz/444888/11 "2019-09-27T14:41:46Z")
> [@iliekcomputers](#): > > I’m really curious to get feedback from everyone on how they use ListenBrainz and what they’d want improved or what features they’d want added. I have two suggestions: one that comes to me from feedback by others and one that is specific to me. # Others: More convenience for users It should be more convenient to submit listens to LB. We need more convenience. It is not convenient to submit listens to LB (beyond Android) from the people I know actively using Last.fm. One needs to first find a tool that supports ListenBrainz for your `$PLATFORM` of choice. The LB website does not link out to any specific tools or apps that support this. I see a couple of ways to make this better: 1. Add page to [ListenBrainz.org](http://ListenBrainz.org) with links to different submission tools and what platform(s) they support 2. _Some_ MeB developer attention to choose 1-2 critical platforms and create submission tools for those platforms (GSoC / GCI idea?) 3. More obvious call-outs on website about how to submit listens – it is not actually described anywhere on the site other than the _Import_ page ### Pros - Build user community around LB by making it more convenient to use - Submission tools that submit plays in real time are familiar to users who already use Last.fm - Encourages a developer ecosystem to begin forming around LB (by calling out and recognizing developers and their tools with the highly-prized “front page” recognition on [ListenBrainz.org](http://ListenBrainz.org)) ### Cons - MeB maintains 1-2 listen submission tools specific to some platforms – might not be the most demanding of development priorities - Could delay or impede progress on new features in LB (in terms of time/focus areas) ### Other considerations I think the timing of when to build out this community depends. On one hand, maybe we want more features and capabilities before we really start encouraging more people to use it (and then possibly being frustrated if it doesn’t have the same tools as something like Last.fm). On the other hand, changing focus to build the community sooner than later also enables more developers to discover the project and experiment with their own ideas based on what is possible today. Some of these people may even come on board later as proper LB contributors. So, there are a lot of things to consider, but ultimately I think the user community should get a raised priority if the LB dev team is looking for new ideas on what to do and what to focus on. I don’t know if this aspect of LB has been part of a development roadmap before. # Me: Listening statistics 😍 Statistics, metrics, data! 😍 I want to learn more (about my music, maybe myself) through the statistic ideas I explained here: > [@\[Feedback needed\] ListenBrainz statistics proposal](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feedback-needed-listenbrainz-statistics-proposal/347327): > > This thread is a companion to [Statistics in ListenBrainz](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/statistics-in-listenbrainz/212010) and the [GSoC 2017 proposal](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gsoc-2017-adding-statistics-and-graphs-to-listenbrainz/227733). However, this proposal focuses on what statistics to collect over the technical implementation. You can leave comments in [this Google Docs page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kByAgC9kbuDHNbsEJDkYkTMJ-wAoouWj0qNyi2UPb2Y/edit?usp=sharing) too! Summary Implement new statistics to calculate insightful data on the listens submitted to ListenBrainz, to make the platform more competitive to other solutions and more interesting to the user Background Currently, ListenBrainz collects two types of statistics: … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-do-you-want-in-listenbrainz/444888)._