Scrobbling

[strypey]

Continuing the discussion from Discoverability on the Fediverse and Thought Dump:

@jbwharris

I’m typically not focused on sharing backlinks to individual artists, but focused on highlighting the station itself. It’s not that I don’t support the artists, it’s more that my app is focused on being able to scrobble and also highlight the radio station. Ideally I want to add links to streaming and bandcamp per song, but getting that pulled in from a source has been something I haven’t been able to reconcile.

Continuing this as a new topic so we can geek out in detail on the plumbing, without flooding the discoverability topic.

[strypey]

@jbwharris

Ideally I want to add links to streaming and bandcamp per song, but getting that pulled in from a source has been something I haven’t been able to reconcile.

Can you expand on this @jbwharris? Is the problem specific to getting the necessary data out of BC and other corporate platforms? Would it be easier to achieve for artists who had the same songs hosted on a service running ActivityPub software like Funkwhale or @bandwagon?

[strypey]

Also on the topic of scrobbling, here’s a bot account on Mastodon that posts about what song the operator is listening to. Based on signals it receives from their home assistant software.

What song is Tom Listening To? (@TomsMusic@mastodon.social)