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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:19:29 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Do you still use last.fm?

   After discovering the Clementine / Strawberry supported scrobbling, I hooked up my account earlier this year after over a decade of dormancy, although it's only linked to a single device at the moment.

   The last.fm folks have always been very nice, but it's a closed, corporate-owned platform.

   Are there any currently active FOSS alternatives I ought to know about ?

   Anyway, I live here:
   https://www.last.fm/user/x1351x

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:21:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Jay Holler
     • Andy Piper

     @andypiper @jay

     Let's friend each other and watch it slowly crumble around us!

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:21:51 JST Andy Piper

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     • Jay Holler

     @HauntedOwlbear it is possible that you, me, and @jay will be the last.users of last.fm 😜

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:28:21 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • bujiraso

     @bujiraso Oh, this could be what I need. It AT LEAST looks like a fun project!

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     bujiraso (bujiraso@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:28:22 JST bujiraso

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     @HauntedOwlbear there were a few GNU fm sites. I think they are mostly unhealthy lately.

     I'm #SelfHosting https://github.com/krateng/maloja as an alternative... But I still scrobble to last.fm at the moment

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:35:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony nice! I think I actually saw this in Strawberry's scrobble-to list.

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:35:52 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear ListenBrainz might be the way to go - https://listenbrainz.org/
     It's part of the same project as MusicBrainz, and their about page talks about being open and community-based, with a link to their Git repo.

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     Nelson Chu Pavlosky (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:55:51 JST Nelson Chu Pavlosky

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     • Jay Holler
     • Andy Piper

     @jay @andypiper @HauntedOwlbear ListenBrainz is the active FOSS alternative:
     https://listenbrainz.org/

     Libre.fm was another last.fm alternative, but it seems to have gone dormant in 2022 while they try to rewrite the software from scratch (someone should update Wikipedia):
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre.fm
     https://github.com/foocorp/gnu-fm
     https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda

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     Jay Holler (jay@macaw.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 23:55:52 JST Jay Holler

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     • Andy Piper

     @andypiper @HauntedOwlbear I would love to shift to something that works exactly the same way but is open. I have history on last.fm that goes back to about 2008! I take great care to ensure every listen is captured and scrobbled too.

     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat repeated this.