I am not sure if this has been asked before, or if it’s the right place to ask, but anyway… I would love to be able to import “favorite” artists from my MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz account to third party applications.
I’ll give you an example. There’s this application called MusicButler which keeps track of new music releases. Like many applications out there, it allows you to automatically import artists to follow by connecting your Spotify, Last.fm, iTunes Music, etc. account, so you don’t have to manually add each artist.
The cool thing is that once the account is connected, MusicButler is kept in sync, so whenever I add a new artist in Spotify, MusicButler sees the change and starts following that artist.
Now, talking about MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz: would it be possible to expose a user’s favorite artists through the API? As far as I know, I don’t think there’s even a concept of “favorite” in MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz, unless we consider a user’s top listened artists (in ListenBrainz) or a user’s edit subscriptions (in MusicBrainz).
Yes, I am mixing things up a bit, but ultimately it would be great to have a “Connect MusicBrainz” button in third party applications that allows you to automate things like importing favorite artists.