apparently it has navidrome support :) navidrome enables you to have your own music library on a device from that you then stream it on your other devices

The other way around, and yes.

https://kawaiidango.github.io/pano-scrobbler/ is one example, but most decent Desktop/Mobile applications have some sort of plugin.

Depends on the app.
If it caches the plays and syncs it back to the scrobble service?
Probably possible.
Afaik it's not possible for Jellyfin.

Depends. LB supports traditional Lastfm scrobling, so you can use players that scrobbles to Lastfm if you can change the URL

The in-app player is more limited, but a good old Navidrome instance is plenty enough!

Yeah, it's pretty low on the social side of things. However, having watched the massive progress the project has made over the last few years makes me hopeful that it'll continue to improve. They seem to be quite smart about how they go about developing new features, which is wise for an open source project. It's been pretty cool to watch how good their recommendation algorithm has been getting though, compared to when I first joined

If you listen on Android, you can use PanoScrobbler. I suspect their are ways on other platforms as well

I used to use the ListenBrainz app to scrobble from YT music until it had a stroke around December, so now I use Pano Scrobbler on Android. You can tell it what apps to monitor/scrobble from.

I found a web scrobbler extension that seems to be pretty popular on github that's available for like every browser and supports multiple services. But I haven't tried this before yet.

Koito is fantastic. I’m so ready to dump Maloja but won’t yet until Koito gets an official stable build. Multi-scrobbler is a lifesaver.

I use Symfonium to play my Jellyfin library, and Jellyfin has a plugin for ListenBrainz integration. So depending on your setup, there already is integration!

If you use Navidrome, you can connect it to LB.

Yessss! I am so jazzed to see other people in this thread who love Listenbrainz as much as I do.

I will always love it because it was my first ever contribution to open source software. It was only documentation, because I'm a mediocre programmer, but documentation is a big deal for projects like these.

What I really liked about contributing is that I felt a real sense of contributing to something bigger than myself. I mean, I feel that with the fact that my listening data gets added to the pool itself, but I felt it even more so when helping with the documentation.

It was only something small, but I liked the idea that I was helping future tinkerers experience a little less frustration than I felt when I struggled with the outdated documentation. It made me happy to think that I was facilitating more people to tinker. I may only be a mediocre programmer, but that just means I am well placed to help pave the way for people more skilled than I am. This is the kind of project that I want to exist in the world, and so helping to support it genuinely makes me feel a little more hopeful in the face of this increasingly enshittified world

It depends on your preferences, but myself I just like knowing what I listen to a lot and send my monthly cover art collage to brag about my blorbos

The player / radio are nice, but I personally created my own radio generator based on my data

It's a scrobbling service. You send your listening data to it so that you can see your listening habits and share them with other people (your top songs, which countries the artists you listen to are from, etc.). It's just interesting data that some people like to collect, but if you only throw on your mp3s and don't care about that, then you probably won't find much use in setting it up.

Edit: to clarify what "listening data" means here, it just means the metadata of the music you play. Song name, artist, album. Nothing fancy. I think it also supports marking songs as favorites.

I’ve been living off a folder of mp3s for 30 years.

Same here. I love that shit. My mood is the algorithm. I still occasionally get new stuff, but from other sources I happen to see or hear, like a Netflix show that has it in the background or a musician's personal recommendation in an interview, and I go look it up manually. But even if I never got anything new, I already have more music than I could easily listen to in a lifetime that I already know I liked at least once.

I've tried streaming sources, but it never hits right. This way, where I am specifically picking the artist or album, it's always right, always fresh, and I'm always listening to something I want to hear.

ListenBrainz

I saw that as well so I have left Plex scrobing to Last.FM, then Listenbrainz can pull the data from there.

Link plex to your last.fm account so it scrobbles and then let LZ auto-import every 30 min from last.fm. Thats the simplest way.

If there is a plugin, everything is (sort of) supported.
Jellyfin has a listenbrainz plugin.

Better track matching

More stats visualizations

Cover art collages of your favourite tracks

Fresh releases of you favourite artists

1. Listenbrainz isn't owned by David Ellison.
2. Do I need a #2?

I'm the exact opposite. I love services recommending new artists and songs I would have never stumbled into on my own

What has worked nice for me is to listen to the AccuRadio channel of the genre I'm in the mood for, and rate the songs. Then later when I have the time, I look at my ratings history page and download the ones I rated high from youtube in mp3, so I can have my own local "radio stations" of the songs I enjoy. Then months later, when/if I got bored of them, I can go back to AccuRadio and see what new songs they added in the meantime.