Listenbrainz 'playing_now' Support

[ARufenach]

Listenbrainz has a feature that can track live listens using the 'playing_now' type instead of the 'single' type when submitting to the submit-listens endpoint. This would be a nice addition to see what's being listened to at the moment from the Listenbrainz side.

[FoxxMD]

I like this idea and I'd like to expand it a little bit and have a "now playing" in the MS ui for every source it is monitoring as well as notification/webhook functionality. It's already tracking this information in order to determine when to scrobble. Going to work on this for a bit.

[ARufenach]

That sounds like a great extension of the idea. I await the fleshed out update👍

[FoxxMD]

Hey @ARufenach just wanted to let you know progress is being made :)

[ARufenach]

Looks great! Can't wait for the update.

[FoxxMD]

@ARufenach you can try MS with now playing support for listenbrainz in the develop branch or foxxmd/multi-scrobbler:develop docker image.

Caveat for how it works:

• LZ does not provide positional information (where your player is in the track) so MS will not either
• LZ may not know the duration of the track (it's based on musicbrainz returning a valid mapping) in which case MS will show 0:00 as the track length
• The player is for display only. MS will still use the normal "scrobble history" provided by LZ as the source of truth for scrobbles.

Additionally, player functionality is now enabled for lastfm sources.

[ARufenach]

Just pulled the latest docker image and the new UI changes look really good, but I'm not getting the 'now playing' notification on the Listenbrainz website like this:

I do get this however if I use the Jellyfin Listenbrainz plugin and bypass MS. Scrobbles are still submitted like normal, just no 'now playing' display.

[FoxxMD]

Ah I think I see...so what you are wanting is:

• MS has a Listenbrainz Client
• A configured MS Source monitors a playing track
  • MS uses your Listenbrainz Client to send a now_playing notification to Listenbrainz so you can see on the LZ website?

If this is correct this is not how I interpreted it 😅 the feature I introduced is for a Listenbrainz Source where MS gets the now_playing notification from LZ and displays it.

I'll need to do some more research to see if sending a now_playing notification affects subsequent scrobbles -- or if LZ scrobbles based on now_playing -- and see about using the play to notify an MS client...

[ARufenach]

Oh that's my bad, I should've been more specific in the initial request. I wasn't even aware that you could have Listenbrainz as a source.

But yes, my request is to have a configured source (in my case Jellyfin) playing a track, have MS monitoring it and send Listenbrainz a now_playing payload such that when you're listening to a track, it displays as 'now playing' on Listenbrainz. Purely a nice-to-have feature. Sorry for the confusion!