ListenBrainz 2

Minimum requirements

Windows 7 and foobar2000 v1.5.

Download

https://github.com/EliasAlucard/foo_listenbrainz2/releases

Installation

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:How_to_install_a_component

What is ListenBrainz?

https://listenbrainz.org

Why foo_listenbrainz2?

Somebody else already beat me with the original name here: https://github.com/medvid/foo_listenbrainz

I decided to write my own because the above version blocks the main thread and freezes the UI when submitting. Also, my version submits artist/recording MBIDs if present in your files. This makes artist/title links on your recent listens page clickable and will lead you to the respective pages on musicbrainz.org

Preferences

Enter your ListenBrainz token and check the other options under File>Preferences>Tools>ListenBrainz 2.

Now just listen to your music and watch the Console for server responses and/or check your recent listens page.

For convenience, submissions can be enabled/disabled via the main Playback menu. This option is only available after your token has been set.

Submissions

The following conditions must be met for a track to be submitted:

• The track must be at least 5 seconds long. Anything shorter or unknown will be ignored.
• Like Last.fm, you must listen to at least half the track or 4 minutes - whichever comes first.
• The Preferences must be enabled when the track begins AND at the time of submission during playback.
• The track must contain ARTIST and TITLE tags as a bare minimum. Any tracks without them are silently ignored.

These additional tags are sent if present:

ALBUM ARTIST
ALBUM
DATE
TRACKNUMBER
TOTALTRACKS
DISCNUMBER
TOTALDISCS
ISRC
MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID / MUSICBRAINZ ARTIST ID
MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID / MUSICBRAINZ TRACK ID
MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID / MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID
MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASEGROUPID / MUSICBRAINZ RELEASE GROUP ID
MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASETRACKID / MUSICBRAINZ RELEASE TRACK ID
MUSICBRAINZ_WORKID / MUSICBRAINZ WORK ID

Note that foobar2000 does not support reading track id (recording) tags that are written to mp3s as UFID by MusicBrainz Picard.

Multi-value tag handling

• For artist/work MBIDs, all values are sent.
• By default, only the first value of any multi-value ARTIST tag is sent. This can be changed in the Preferences so all values are sent as a comma separated string. Before this option was added in v1.1.3, only the first value was sent.
• For all other tags, only the first value is sent.

Caching of failed submissions

This happens automatically so you don't need to do anything to trigger it. If you're offline/ListenBrainz is down, the Console will report each time a listen is cached and the next time you submit a successful listen, an attempt will be made to submit all cached entries.

Limitations

Currently there is no support for streams or tracks of an unknown length.