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I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you're going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:
(I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)
You can also self-host with Maloja and Multi-scrobbler. This is the most privacy-respecting-option.
https://github.com/krateng/maloja
https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler
I rolled them out with Docker and imported my Last.fm listening history using this tool:
Those suggetions sound cool!
There’s also Koito as a Maloja alternative. The Maloja UI was always slow and clunky when I was trying it out.
Navidrome lets you do both so if you're a self-hoster, you don't have to choose which is nice!
Holy shit.
I have been struggling with a not-quite-perfect scrobbling setup between Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler because I was trying to slowly move away from Last.fm because of lack of trust in ownership.
If they can pull this off and truly be independent again, I will actually stop moving away from them for a while.
Listenbrainz works great for me. What's your problem with it?
I was just looking for a most self-hosty and privacy respecting solution initially. I will keep running it alongside Last.fm in case there's a reason I need to dump Last.fm or if I decide I don't want my listening habits on a public site.
EDIT: To be more clear, I have no issues with Listenbrainz at all, I just wanted to self-host.
It still around?! Blast from the past!
I remember using it back when it was called "Audioscrobbler". I think the "scrobbler" part stuck around somehow?
Yep, it's still called scrobbling. I have very old tracks in my history that don't have any timestamps because of the imperfect database changeover when they went from Audioscrobbler to Last.fm. I found that out when exporting my scrobbles to use elsewhere and noticed that my earliest scrobbles weren't actually pulling timestamps at all, and it was defaulting to them all played on the same day at the same time.
Actually found so much good music this way. Good times.
I’ve been scrobbling since 2005
Holy... I never disconnected my last.fm account from Spotify, now I have 20 years of history. WOW
Hell yeah!
Oh this is fantastic, I might dust off my old account
Lucky you! I forgot even the name of my account! Not to say password. Heck, I won’t recall which email is there! Almost no chance to find it, as it was long before I started using not only password manager, but even a paper notebook. All my passwords were generated funny nonsense a teenager would make up. I juggled emails too, having some ‘I don’t care about this one, and that one too.’
I actually somehow have kept mine going strong for over 20 years now. I even have some early tracks from before they changed how the system worked that don't have any timestamps from when they got moved from the old system to the new (which was about early/mid 2005).
From about 2014 to 2016 I was having trouble finding listening solutions that actually consistently scrobbled to Last.fm but then got it working again by 2017. I think 2017 is when I paid for a Plex Lifetime pass (back when it was like $90 and not... $750) and that was also the year the Plexamp came out and worked with Last.fm scrobbling. I've used Plexamp since.
Also, for my 20 year anniversary I successfully listened to more music in 2025 than I had listened to in one year on 20 years. Worth it, it was fun.
Wow, that’s impressive! Does it help you find any new music by the way? I thought whether it’s viable to replace a streaming service with a locally hosted music. With some scrobbler, like lastfm or similar.
I’ve never used last.fm but I saw this video the other day that suggests a way to use it with listenbrainz to create your own algorithm to help ween off subscription services. I’ve been meaning to go back and take some notes but maybe it’s of use?
Nah, I find new music via Bandcamp and piracy sites (which I used to check out music and then buy the stuff I really enjoy and will listen to a lot from Bandcamp).
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Well, then. I guess I'm just SOL
what's your browser? my firefox and chromium both work.
Kiwi (chromium mobile, supports extensions) + ublock + pihole tends to break some sites. I lol'd at the modern browser message
I also have uBlock in Firefox and AdGuardHome running in my LAN. Guess it's something about Kiwi (haven't heard of it)
I mean, yea, sure. But it's just chromium. And it's just this discourse support site. They're reading something from the UA and blocking access for falsely stated reasons. I'm not that hard up about it, it's just dumb
I'm on Fennec, a Mozilla derivative for Android
"Your request was blocked. To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe. Please try clearing your cookies and refreshing the page. If the problem persists, try again later or on a different computer network."
Haha that's amazing. You unsafe deviant!
Trying to recover my old account but supposedly "TrustMeBroThisIsSuperSecure" is not sufficient. Fucks sake, even I would have trouble just typing that in.
As someone who has scrobbled religiously since 2014, this is great news
I didn't realise it was still a thing.
I heard of it before, well atleast they didn't sell it to TPE.
