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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:
There’s also Koito as a Maloja alternative. The Maloja UI was always slow and clunky when I was trying it out.
For those wondering who owned Last.fm, it was CBS Interactive/Paramount Streaming.
Oof. Well, glad they got out then
Jesus, maybe some broadcasting freedom hope?
Its a good thing in my opinion since:
- Paramount is a public company and I heard some bad stuff about them like Keeping Spongebob to make extra money even after the creator died. (i kinda dont have strong opinions on public companies but still a good thing they became independent.)
- Paramount will be partially state owned if they merge with WB (heard that somewhere)
If the Paramount deal goes ahead, it’ll be 49.5% foreign owned, of which some state actors ike the Saudis via their PIF having ownership.
if the PIF is gonna buy it,no.
What do you mean, no?
https://www.top1000funds.com/asset_owner/public-investment-fund-pif/
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world and was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund has been controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler since 2015.
The government is going to own a large part if the merger happens.
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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!
I didn’t realise it was still a thing.
Holy… I never disconnected my last.fm account from Spotify, now I have 20 years of history. WOW
It still around?! Blast from the past!
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.’
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?
