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Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months agoFair enough - I use both for different reasons, and am also thinking on getting Last.fm Pro in the future.
ListenBrainz has the ability of submitting more accurate data (i.e. specific recordings and releases, tied to MusicBrainz ofc) while last.fm has the better developer ecosystem (a lot of apps support it e.g. third party Apple Music Clients, the .fmbot Discord bot which I do pay monthly for). Not a huuuuge fan of Last.fm’s way of handling artist names that have collabs or featured artists in them, but that might be the obsessive data nerd in me I guess (and I guess last.fm Pro can fix that)
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yes the artist and stuff handling could def be better
What’s the discord bot you pay for do?
I use AMWin Rich Precense for AM on Windows which connects to Discord
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
.fmbot is essentially a social bot for Discord that you can drop into a server. It’s essentially the site but as a Discord bot, with some little trinkets here and there. It’s all good fun, really, if you like the social aspect. I pay for the bot as my Last.fm account is relatively new, and it allows importing your listens from Spotify (through a GDPR request for extended listening history). I have requested ListenBrainz user dump support; they have considered supporting ListenBrainz but the main issue is that the API limits are worse than Last.fm’s.
A lot of music servers use it for the social aspect. Chuu (named after the k-pop star) is a similar bot.