Hi, I couldn’t find if there has been any definitive response to this and I think this is the same feature I’d like:
when scrobbling from spotify, it would be nice to have the song automatically mapped to the mbid if the MB entry has a spotify link, same goes for songs in albums
for example, I listened to the album “maenarawanai” from “ATARASHII GAKKO!” with spotify (ListenBrainz) but I had to manually link every song, even tho by using the album spotify link/id (spotify_album_id": "https://open.spotify.com/album/3HmOMYSlIlHBPwSHl3POgb") and the track number it could’ve been automatically mapped without the risk of mapping a wrong song since link+tracknumber should be unique.
(this should probably prioritize album link + tracknumber over track link in order to get the right song version)
(same goes for yt music, itunes, etc and their respective links of course)
Also another unrelated feature request: add an "Undo" button to the popup for deleting/linking/etc on the website
in theory this shouldn’t be an issue, since MusicBrainz does split different versions of recordings quite well. that said, it’d probably be better to use the album link anyways, since usually the album is fairly important and most recordings won’t have a Spotify track link anyways
Definitely would love any indication that a listen was loosely/“fuzzy” matched to a MB recording as to make fixing matching errors easier (currently the only way to tell is by opening “inspect listen” and manually comparing.) Maybe it could have a page similar to the “missing data” section of the site.
This would definitely be harder to implement, but if fuzzy matches could be re-scanned (manually or, ideally, automatically) to draw upon new MB data, it would prevent some of these mismatched data issues. For instance, I was checking out HDBeenDope and his track “Cayman” was linking to an obscure unofficial remix instead of the original (which hadn’t yet existed in the database). Because of this, the remix shows up as top 3 on his LB profile in place of the original. If this match was re-scanned, it could now find the proper MB recording and thus correct the mismatched link (and the LB listen data).
Creating a new account specifically for the radio station, and scrobbling broadcasted tracks to it is probably an easier option
Although it doesn’t allow artists to specifically search for when and howmuch their music has been broadcasted (unless somebody compiles a list of radio station accounts?)
For what it’s worth, we still look at this thread regularly and pluck ideas from it.
The interactive graphs LastFM-style allowing navigation through time (the LB-1578 ticket you mentioned) is on the cards for this second half of the year.
Not sure at all when that would be released, as we are first working on the infrastructure changes required for this to work, but rest assured we are working on it
I know there’s a ticket for tracks with bad automatic mapping for listens (LB-1036), perhaps there should be a ticket for bad matching to streaming services too?
also, I know @aerozol has been helping to push for dark mode (LB-859), but for now we’ve gotta make do with a browser extension or whatnot
importing .csv listens from last.fm idk why i deleted my old profile after i uploaded it onto this “Last.fm to csv”, but i did i imagine many people might have done so too, bcz ive seen people ask for it on reddit, but, to my knowledge, it hasnt been implemented at all
What would be helpful would be a short example of the format of the CSV file, if you would please post that either here or better yet directly on the ticket.
Not sure this fits the thread since it’s more a bug than a feature, but I’d really like listenbrainz to refresh its cache more promptly when some missing mbid is requested. These days I primarily use listenbrainz in conjunction with editing musicbrainz, and it’s a bit frustrating for the “Play on Listenbrainz” buttons to never work for new imports, even across a couple reloads
It would be great to have user bios for radio stations / DJs.
It would also be great to integrate listenbrainz into Picard. I tend to build playlists on listenbrainz and then synchronize them to my local system using a troi but having that built into Picard would be awesome.
I’m not sure if this was mentioned but I wonder if there can be a chatbox in each band profile. Similar to last.fm, even though it can be tricky to moderate all the posts.
i want that new bands be more visible than the already famous big bands.
or at least a tap where i can search for local beginning bands.
i think giving a list of ALL the bands from a certain area would not solve this since there are so many bands that already have split up.
so it would be logic to only show active bands.
what is an active band? bands that have had a release (single/album doesn’t matter) OR had a gig in the last year.
ideally you could filter on how many active listeners there are. (less listeners means smaller band an should be promoted more then the bigger known bands with more listeners)
a related stat I’d like to see emphasized is “average listens per listener” or something similar (I think it’s been mentioned here before). because 1,000,000 listens across 1,000,000 listeners tells a very different story than 1,000,000 listens across only 1,000 listeners. the former sounds like a popular band, and the latter sounds like a band people like listening to (not that the two are mutually exclusive)
year maybe also if an artist has 200 songs but people only listen to the top 2 most popular songs or and artist that has 30 songs but most listens go to the top 10 songs. feels also different (one hit wonder i guess)