this feature is already available on MusicBrainz, but it would be nice to have this feature in ListenBrainz too (perhaps with the option of syncing with your MusicBrainz collections? I’ve spent quite some time getting all my music collected over there~)
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Thanks! I didn’t realize that MusicBrainz has a “Collections” features. Is Beets the only tool that can submit collections in an automated fashion? Or can Picard also do so? (I can’t seem to find an appropriate plug-in: Available Plugins - MusicBrainz Picard)
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I think you need to be signed into Picard, but it’s actually built-in~ under the context menu > Collections
you have to create the collection in MusicBrainz first, but once that’s done, you can add releases to any of your release collections~
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I just recently switched to ListenBrainz; I used to be a Last.fm user until their data leak in 2016, and then for some years now I haven’t been scrobbling at all.
So the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with ListenBrainz and all in all I am pretty impressed. However, what I miss most, are “social features”. I’ve seen that there is a “Follow / Following” feature, and “Similar Users”. But it seems like that’s it, so I don’t even know why these exist.
What I’d love to see is something like “Search for friends”, or an “Activity page” where you can see who is listening to what right now. Also the possiblity to write messages to each other, or to have something like status updates? This is something Last.fm had as feature and I remember having some good time with it.
Another of their features I really liked was the Events feature - providing concert and tour dates from the musicians you liked and listen to, and sharing with your friends which events you go to - this as well led to some surprise concert meetups.
I know these are probably a bit more “out of scope”, but as you asked, I just thought I’d add my ideas. In general I am pretty impressed and hope that this service will thrive and grow, and I am already advertising it to all my friends 
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I just remembered another thing that I thought of a couple of days ago. In my music collection I also have some tapes and vinyl records. I love the fact that you can add scrobbles manually, but I wouldn’t want to add all tracks of an album I am listening to (and most of the time when putting on a tape or a record you’d sit through the entire thing as skipping or perfect track navigating (and then just putting that one track on) is more of an hustle than it is worth 
).
So what I was thinking of: Wouldn’t it be a really cool feature to have “Add listens > Manual addition” also include entire albums? And then add the single tracks of that album, but in a way that makes sense (i.e. if I added the album “Michael Jackson - Bad” at 13:00, it would add the first song “Bad” at 13:00, the second song “The Way You Make me Feel” at 13:04, “Speed Demon” at 13:09, etc.).
And now to expand on that idea (but that would be an added bonus; I would already be totally happy with an implementation the way I explained above): If I added a vinyl or tape as manual addition, I could also provide (maybe as a checklist) - “Side A”, “Side B”, “Side C”, or “Entire Album”.
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Welcome @pygospa!
Great suggestions - some of these are definitely on the to-do list, but the core ListenBrainz team is very small, though helped along by some open-source contributors, so you will have to be patient with us 
If you have time and you’d like to get hands-on with getting new features implemented, and have input into how they are implemented, check out our ticket tracker!
There are some tickets in the pipeline that are relevant to your suggestions (feel free to comment and vote), and anyone can create new tickets as well.
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Now that we have artist pages, a small thing I would love to see is an artist search box to go with the user search box to make it easier to quickly look up artists.
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I think a unified search would probably make the most sense for ListenBrainz, actually, where you can search for stuff without having to select what kind of entity you’re looking for
related ticket (but not exactly, despite the title… lol)
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For the new album pages maybe a cover art browsing feature? Allow users to view full size/full screen, and maybe flip through all the cover arts available?
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In case you haven’t seen this, Open Scrobbler has this option (last.fm only 
). You can search for an album in Spotify or Discogs and then choose which tracks to submit and when. Might be useful to check out for ideas. I’ll check out the tickets later.
Options for scrobbling
Example partial scrobble of album
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Bit silly, but I’d like to be able to listen to “my musicbrainz edits”
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As of now, the public playlists of ListenBrainz are public indeed, but not easily discoverable for other users.
- I would find a way to search public playlists by name or by tracks contained very useful. This mitigates the discoverability issue of public playlists.
- Also, a “contained in” section for track / album / artist pages that lists public playlists that contain this track / some of the album’s / artist’s tracks, like the “discovered on” section in Spotify (e.g. Spotify – Web Player) would be a great addition to boost playlist discoverability.
- The ability to love (or optionally also hate) public playlists could boost social features of ListenBrainz and encourage users to create well-curated playlists to share with the world, and could ultimately lead to users discovering new and good music through playlists. See ticket LB-1353
- Another welcome addition would be the ability to send join requests for public, collaborative playlists that the playlist owner can accept or reject (or disable join requests if this is not desired). This one is not my top priority suggestion, but i’m throwing it in the ring anyway.
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Ticket here for that one for people to +1
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Discovered that i already upvoted that ticket and didn’t remember 
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I agree with this!
Listenbrainz was an amazing find when moving away from last.fm to an awesome opens-source alternative.
Now I’m trying to move away from Spotify and have found myself trying out a few different streaming services and sadly having to resign to recording in last.fm (and importing to listenbrainz whenever I remember).
It would be great to see new services connected for tracking listens. I’ve had a brief look around myself and it looks like there was mention of Apple Music support but I’ve been unable to see what’s come of that.
I’d be happy to help contribute to these features, any tips/guidance on where to start looking to add new services or providing testing time then let me know!
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Some kind of tag word cloud on the user stats page would be great.
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I’m not personally a big fan of word clouds myself, but I’d also love to see tags and genres in more places~
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I have a bunch of self-coded widgets, like lists and artist name clouds, that I’ve ported from last.fm to LB. This is partly philosophical and partly because I never figured out how to request a last.fm API token so I had been (cough) using one that someone left in their project.
The one thing I miss the most is the concept of trailing month and trailing week - not this month and last month as LB implements them, meaning roughly calendar month, but the last four weeks or last seven days. So that my lists reflect continuous recent activity and don’t empty themselves on some arbitrary day.
I mentioned this in a post I can no longer find and someone recommended putting the request in some other tracker somewhere. Is it enough to mention it here or should I go upvote or create a ticket in another system?
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Pages on ListenBrainz for artists, releases and recordings are an obvious choice, but I’d like to see pages for works. It’d be a cool way to see how popular the assorted remixes, acoustic versions, live performances, covers, etc of a song are.
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I’ve only recently got into this, so sorry for a late post. A similar idea was developed for foobar2000, to find your actual listening preferences taking due account of the time cost of longer tracks:
DADA music rating algorithm
Instead of tracking the actual time spent listening, it uses instances of listens and the track duration, which is probably easier. Then it weights that against the size of your music collection to uncover all sorts of things.
There’s also another foobar2000 user, Regor, who is developing similar things currently…
Regor foobar2k playlist tools including spotify-like recommender based on listen history
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