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Pirate the music, use ListenBrainz (which is FOSS) to analyze your listening behavior and make recommendations
My listenbrainz recs are kinda meh compared to last.fm. I scrobble to both, and maloja via multi-scrobbler.
What server do you use to host your music? Would love to set up one of the *arrs to auto download recs from the different scrobble databases and then delete them after a week or so if I don't "like" the track. Are you aware of any client can support that flow?
I will say, none of the scrobble DBs I have used have recommendations as good as Spotify. Daylists are pretty sweet. I do think the Spotify API is free to use but I havent taken a dive in on what I can get from it
I don't know about spotify recommendations, but given the incredible amount of user data they have it makes a lot of sense that they have the best recommendations. I love LB for providing a FOSS alternative, and though they steadily grow, they are still comparatively tiny. But I think they are our best shot at noncorporate automated music recommendations.
For your questions, I have no idea. I'm not tech savvy at all myself.
So instead of the cents that artists get from streaming you propose they get nothing at all? You can buy from Bandcamp if the artists are on it and use ListenBrainz.
Exactly, they aren't losing anything and there's hope a better system will come along.
Agreed on Bandcamp though. The very few artists who use it get my money through there.
Didnt bandcamp get bought by some big company a little while ago? Sp bandcamp just doesent have the library yet. I do like it though in its current form (until it gets enshittified)
Epic Games (lolwhat?) bought it in 2022, but sold to Songtradr in 2023. The latter seems to be some kind of music license broker.
I'm very much in favor of people supporting artists, but I don't feel like people should be obliged to do so. I don't believe copyright is doing society any good, and I think everyone should be free to download/listen to whatever they please. If you make music and set it free in the world, let the world listen. If they like it, they might support you, and if they don't that's too bad. Feel free to disagree, but that's my point of view. If I pay for music it's mostly by going to concerts. I've also donated to artists, for instance to Cardiacs when their lead singer got ill. And Major Parkinson through their kickstarter campaigns.
Can I import my history from Last? I've had my lfm account for like... almost 20 years, and I really don't want to have to start off blank...
yes, you can connect them and you can import from last.fm. I was in the same situation as you, first I had both simultaneously running for some time, because I needed to get comfortable with the idea of removing last.fm. I also have data since 2008 so I felt a bit insecure 'risking' that. But after a while I concluded there was really no need for me to keep last.fm so I removed it. Haven't had any regrets. ListenBrainz isn't perfect but, despite it's small development team, it's sgnificantly improving every year.
https://listenbrainz.org/settings/music-services/details/ Here you can "Connect to your Last.FM account to import your entire listening history and automatically add your new scrobbles to ListenBrainz."
Thanks! I didn't want to make an account just to find out if I could or not. I'll poke at this soon :D