Hmmmmm…
https://soundiiz.com lets you import playlists from a url (e.g. a Spotify playlist)
You can then save it to YOUR Spotify account (it will be the same playlist, just created by you)
I tried this one:
and it worked, but Soundiiz has a free limit of 200 tracks.
So I guess it all depends on how long the playlists are, but it should be doable!
Yes, this is what I’m looking for.
I’m not sure if it has been asked before (couldn’t find it with a quick search), but a feature I’d really like:
We have the Spotify playlists for Weekly Exploration and Weekly Jams, those are nice, I use them every week. We also have the Explore > Fresh Releases in ListenBrainz.
What would be a killer feature (for me at least), is to have a daily or weekly updated playlist on Spotify, populated from these new releases (just using the ‘For You’ filter on the new releases).
Spotify does ‘notify’ about new releases from bands I follow, but honestly, I have so many different bands I listen to that I just stopped using the follow feature in Spotify…
I’ve tried looking for this so apologies if this is a duplicate request.
I would love to be able to subscribe to an ical feed of my upcoming releases.
Ideally this feature would generate an iCal link that I can add to Google Calendar instead of the historical RSS feed currently available. Additionally, I filter the types of releases to “singles” and “albums” it would only include those.
Finally, a way to hide some artists from the upcoming view. Just because I had one listen to an artist from a playlist doesn’t necessarily mean I want all their upcoming stuff.
Let me know if I can provide more details!
I know this is an old thread, but this hopefully gets read.
I’ve been suffering an issue where on the web player, whenever I’m going to next track, it just gets blasted at 100%. I know there’s some limitation with youtube or soundcloud integration, but the website volume also seems to go back up to 100%. and it’s absolutely deafening, and so far, extensions that I have tried have failed to detect any media playing.
I hope this issue gets resolved so I can actually use the website.
[mod edit: this is being addressed in this topic]
Possibly stupid idea: “Genre groups”
For each genre there’s a group. You can join this group and look at its member list. Being a member of such a group could signal that you’re a big fan of this genre and that other users interested in it may want to check out your profile and listening stats. Maybe a list of genre groups a user is a member of could be available on their profile.
I know there won’t be something like shoutboxes on LB, but what you could post in this group is very limited:
You can post (i.e. recommend) songs, albums, artist or playlists (related to the specific genre, of course). Other users can like these posts (maybe also other type of reactions).
The activity of these groups could also be included in the Feed.
Potential problem: redundancy (see “punk” and “punk rock”, for example). This could be avoided by merging some genre groups.
Here is an ambitious recommendation…
First, let me say I love the manual ‘add listen’ feature that we have, and was very pleased to see it added. But here is a potential improvement, and a potential way to expand the ListenBrainz experience greatly…
Mixes / DJ Sets
Basic idea: a playlist of existing (and even non-existing) tracks is added all together to form a Mix or Set… They are processed as LISTENS and show up in your regular Listen Brainz data with the relevant artists / tracks credited with plays…
It also can exist as a ‘Mix’ that you can also get a recorded play. The mix is also accessible, so if you listen to it again, you can simply scrobble it again, and get all of the tracks (or some of them) scrobbled again…
This could also add a new category in Music Brainz: Mixes.
Some DJs have tons & tons of mixes - they put them out weekly, like Armin van Buren who now does it more than weekly with multiple podcasts. Others have but a few mixes they do a year that are public, or they put on extraordinarily memorable sets that get famous across multiple streaming sources and some even become releases unto themselves. You also have websites like 1001tracklists to trakc these.
It would make sense for Music Brainz to go beyond Discogs and other discography sites to begin including these.
I think it would also incentivize users to catalog more music in MusicBrainz - for instance, you could have a track exist as a “stub” in a mix. Someone comes along and they play an entire DJ Mix and then see that the very classic track ‘Origination - the Statement’ has not been added to the Music Brainz library yet, and they know exactly what to do. They can also see right away that, say, 10 of the 15 tracks are in Music Brainz, etc…
There is really a ton that can be done with this that would enhance both ListenBrainz and MusicBrainz, but I can also see how this would involve a lot of discussion among the site engineers on how to implement. But it would be yet another distinct feature that last dot fm does not have, and it would add a component to Music Brainz that other discography sites completely lack.
I don’t know if it was ever mentioned, but one feature I look for are country specific stats. Like, what do users from certain countries listen to? What are the most popular artists? That kind of information is drowned out by the sheer number of angloamerican users here, so a feature to focus on specific geographical and demographic would be nice. This could also be used for artists and releases: where do most listeners come from etc.
This already exists - check it out!
Thank you, that is amazing. I feel stupid for suggesting a feature that already exists, but I am glad that I mentioned it. I suppose I did not notice it because my favorite frequent broadcast mix, Kutski’s Keeping the Rave Alive, has not had someone meticulously enter 740+ episodes, but it does have the necessary entries for the full album versions of releases, with some of them listed as mixes, so I suppose without looking hard into what constitutes a mix, I had assumed this was limited to official released albums that were mixes… I had not put two and two together, lol…
When I went to van Buren’s epic A State of Trance series of broadcasted DJ mixes,I was able to find a diversity of ways it was attributed - for instance, there was the very dissatisfying versions.
The 2023-12-28 ASOT entry for the 2023 Yearmix has a single track whose title is identical to the broadcast/mix name, and ther eare zero details about what was actually played even though the content should have been quite clear as it was the yearmix.
ASOT 90 from back in 2003has an interesting entry: an annotation of the full track list, but the actual tracks listed for the broadcast are just the segment names, e.g. 1. Regular Episode, 2. M.I.K.E. Non-Stop in the Mix, 3. M.I.K.E. Special, 4. Armin van Buuren Non-Stop in the Mix….
And then we have the very well done episodes as they should be: ASOT 710. Here it is the case that the editor has given the complete & full tracklist with the relevant artists. And here is a detail I love: tracks that do not otherwise appear anywhere in the MusicBrainz database are listed here, so that the recording and the artists involved are effectively added to the archive for good. Here the example would be Invisible Touch (Aly & Fila remix) by Bobina.
Then we have the absolute perfectionist editorial entry:
ASOT 1138 has two different mediums - one is just the show title so that ASOT 1138 can be scrobbled as a single unit, and then thefirst medium, which has 55 tracks listed, including individual tracks listed for THE SHOUT OUTS!
A lot of love wen tinto this. Cheers to the editor, oblomovx. I am not sure if breaking up the shoutout segments on a tracklist is much added value, but so much added value around it, lol…I will certainly attempt to begin cataloguing DJ mixes, and through this beginning to fill in some important missing pieces of the Music Brainz library. But I would emphasize that this has to be done carefully & meticulously.
Allow me to reiterate the importance of this in the sense that… There are some tracks that I cannot find any conventional ‘release infrmation’ for on any website, including massive digital stores & streaming platforms. They exist only as blips in a DJ’s mix, either because they were acquired long ago or are exceedingly unique, or either because they were a mashup or an exceedingly unique unreleased track that only made appearances in live sets or a podcast. It is also the case in the electronic music world that bootlegs abound, and they may have once been lovingly stored on YouTube and a variety of platforms, but they are eventually scrubbed.
Regardless, thank you for your clarification. It’s a real game changer for me. I feel foolish for not knowing this. And I also feel like I’ll never have a shortage of things to submit to MusicBrainz, lol.
I’m glad you saw and appreciate that also! A huge amount of work, and a really cool outcome.
re. dissatisfying versions, I have to admit that I also sometimes just enter ‘basic’ data, just because I have a limited amount of time and a million things to edit. Then other editors can add more details! And I may add pedantic details to some things that other editors were less interested in. It’s a great system.
Yeah man, I totally agree with your philosophy on this… I avoid adding the album covers to albums I submit until I see they are a frequent enough favorite that my charts feel nude without it.
I figure… I am not a super big fan of them, just the guy who added the bare data of an album so it’d appear in LB properly when listening… Let the next guy who is a big fan get the joy of adding something to an artist they like…
Plus now I have 740+ (minus one) KTRA episodes to add to ListenBrainz in 2026, plus 140+ for Matduke’s Hard & Loud, and the list really goes on… We all have priorities!
And frankly, the guy who even just stashes the full tracklist in the annotations is no villain - every single step that becoomes easier in an edit is welcomed.
I used to snicker when I saw someone add an artist without any releases… But now when I am adding 20 tracks to a compilation (or MIX!) and I see that someone already created the artist but didn’t submit releases… I’m grateful.
Any constructive act - even one with errors in good faith - is welcome, IMO.
I really want ListenBrainz to stop being clunky and be more usable. Just from the top of my head, the things which makes listen brainz painful to use:
Deletion of listen should be insta. I have 0 understanding why it’s implementing via queue system and actual delete happens only on the top of the hour… At least in front end mark those listen as “deletion submitted“ or something and not show them.
PLEASE add functionality to select release when adding link to MB recording. Tired of wrong releases in my library. Had to write a simple script, which deletes one listen and re-adds it with correct release mbid after.
Linking to just newly created album in MusicBrainz ends up listen in some weird half-linked state:
Re-link after a week doesn’t help - the only way to fix it again with my script, which will delete original listen and re-add it with correct metadata.
Hey folks 
this was probably mentioned before but I’m really missing some basic playlist sorting functionality.
I’m currently migrating away from Spotify and I find this to be pretty much the main blocker for me to adopting Listenbrainz and instead having to either use Youtube directly or maybe Spotube.
I organize my music in pretty large topical playlists and being able to listen to latest songs first or reverse playlist order (if songs are added to the bottom) is really crucial for me.
EDIT: Oh man, and I’m also noticing the web player does not support shuffle. That’s also a pretty big must-have for me to migrate over.