I think they meant that the mapper should compare the “origin_url” field of the listen to an MB recording for the mapping, which would be nice too.
Sadly, there’s not much interest in implementing direct link from MB in brainzplayer as nobody set the recording URLs. If it did use it would make it more popular, but it’s still a chicken and egg situation
Connecting Bandcamp to Listenbrainz would be great.
My first listen is usually on BC itself, which is never registered by LB.
Only the subsequent listenings after downloading.
you could use either a browser plugin or scrobbler app (depending on if you’re on computer or mobile). I personally use Web Scrobbler and Pano Scrobbler, both of which pick up Bandcamp listens
Would Web Scrobbler work as a temporary fix? That’s what I use to grab my listens from Pandora and I have the extension set to only pull data from Pandora and not any sites. I’ve never used Bandcamp, but it looks like Web Scrobbler supports it as well.
Does bandcamp even track your listens? Because if not that’s just not possible.
Although connecting brainzplayer to bandcamp could be nice
Bandcamp does track listens for the artist/labels. You can get statistics for anything: plays, partial plays, skipped tracks and downloads.
I now installed web scrobbler, but I guess I need to install it on all computers I use to make it work properly if it’s not connected straight to LB.
My understanding is that we will not be able to get an API key from bandcamp, as they are for artists/labels.
Even if we could get one, there is no way to get listens for a user (which is what we need in order to track your listening history).
And unfortunately —believe me, as an avid Bandcamp user, it kills me— there is no good way to implement streaming through Bandcamp as they do not have a player or an API to allow that.
The only available option is their embedded players, which we can’t control programmatically (so for example, can’t play the next track in a page when the current one ends).
I’ve been looking into this every six months with nothing but hope, and all the options are a no-go 
I had another user ask for this feature (showing personal listen count on artist/album pages) on Mastodon. I assumed there would be a ticket, but I can’t find it! Is it possible that there isn’t one @mr_monkey? I can make one if not.
Here is the feature request (link):
The closest I found is https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-744 which I renamed a bit to make it clearer.
It is definitely a feature we want, but it is not an easy one to achieve.
As we are currently reworking the statistics infrastructure to allow for more flexibility, this feature could be a good candidate for an impactful improvement.
i don’t know if this is already been brought up.
but it would be cool if there would be a fresh events page, similar to fresh releases.
but it would display upcoming events (concerts/festivals)
similar to the fresh releases it would need a global/for you.
and i think the for you would need some location information.
edit:
maybe also a today in music history would be nice. also a page similar to the fresh releases page.
where you can see the following stuff:
on the right side you could add/remove stuff you don’t want to see.
and again a global/for you thingy would be extra nice.
but for this we need to be able to do a search with the month/day and without the year. (i don’t think this is currently possible)
Hi! Don’t know if I’m missing it, but a way to “follow” artists manually, to keep track of them besides their releases would be nice.
Loving Listenbrainz, by the way. Really enjoying it
Thanks @nomentero !
I can create a ticket to track your suggested feature.
What do you imagine this following artist would add?
In my mind it would maybe add events to my feed when they release a new album (kinda like the fresh releases, but I get an alert for it)
What else do you (or other users here for that matter) envision?
or upcoming events (when there are events in listenbrainz obviously)
would be nice if there would be an option to display artist history stuff like “on this day 10 years ago “some band” was founded” on this day 5 years ago they releases the album “album name”
We had a similar ticket which I repurposed, and added the extra features mentioned: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/LB-757
Hello!
We have user stats and global stats but would be cool to have a dedicated artist stats page, more than just top listeners and total listens. More details would be great like listens and listeners per month and its evolution, map of where it’s listened from, stats comparing albums and/or tracks etc.
thanks!
We have the ability to import our spotify playlists by linking our account, but it would be nice to have the option to give it any spotify playlist URL and have it imported. (forgive me if this is possible and I don’t see it) There is a lot of interesting lists I’d like to import which I can then sync to my media server from ListenBrainz.
Would be cool to have a way to put unlinked listens in a playlist. Some sort of “This one is a jam. DO NOT FORGET THAT IT EXISTS”
Every once in a while when I re-visit my old listens, I keep finding ones that were mapped to recordings which were either removed or merged into others in the meantime.
Take for example my following entry of Édith Piaf that I listened at 1673651900 unix timestamp (January 14, 2023, 12:18 AM CET):
Notice how there’s only a link on the recording name but (unlike other mapped listens) no link on the artist name or cover-art. Even when you click on the recording name, you’re redirected to a recording with a different MBID since the originally mapped one was merged in the meantime.
Looking at the JSON data for said recording (Inspect listen), you’ll also notice that the displayed artist and recording names are only taken from the imported last.fm data since there’s not much info to display from the MB mapping besides the MBID for the recording.
{
"inserted_at": 1699216882,
"listened_at": 1673651900,
"recording_msid": "444efc30-676d-4922-9d41-f0d0add4d014",
"track_metadata": {
"additional_info": {
"lastfm_artist_mbid": "4f8ef4a3-40fa-46b5-8773-97686a8424f4",
"recording_msid": "444efc30-676d-4922-9d41-f0d0add4d014",
"submission_client": "ListenBrainz lastfm importer"
},
"artist_name": "Édith Piaf",
"mbid_mapping": {
"recording_mbid": "fdc337ef-5661-4c08-95de-b074847b808b"
},
"release_name": "Toujours",
"track_name": "Y'avait du soleil"
},
"user_name": "DenizC"
}
I wonder if it’s too much effort to improve LB so that it detects such listens and re-maps them. I’m aware that doing so at the exact moment when they get merged/deleted is too much to ask for. Perhaps, checking for such cases within given intervals (similarly to how stats are updated or unmapped old listens get mapped) might be one feasible approach.
Are you saying some section of stats that says here are all the albums/artist you’re the top listener for?
