Send your listens to ListenBrainz

ListenBrainz, an open listening history

With every track you play, a “listen” (artist, title, album, date) joins your ListenBrainz profile. The service builds your statistics from them: most played artists and albums, trends over time, recommendations. It’s free, its code is open source, and your data can be exported.

Linking your account

1. 1

   Create a ListenBrainz account

   On listenbrainz.org, if you don’t have one yet.

2. 2

   Get your token

   In RustMusic, Settings → Online listening, “ListenBrainz” group: the “Find my token” link opens your account page, where your user token is. Copy it.

3. 3

   Paste it into RustMusic

   Into the “User token” field, then “Connect”. “Connected as …” confirms the link, with the number of listens waiting to be sent and “See my profile”.

Each RustMusic profile links its own account: everyone’s listens go to the right ListenBrainz profile.

What is sent, and when

• A track counts once it has been played halfway, or for 4 minutes if it is long. Very short tracks don’t count.
• What is sent: the artist, title, album, duration and time of the listen. Never your files.
• “Announce the current track”, on by default, shows the track that starts on your profile.
• Tracks from your Navidrome or Jellyfin servers count like any others.
• Neither podcasts nor radio are sent.
• Last.fm can be linked at the same time: each listen then goes to both services.

The threshold you can set in Settings → General (“Count a track as played”) drives RustMusic’s own play count: ListenBrainz keeps its own rule.

Offline

Without a connection, listens wait on the computer and are sent as soon as possible, in batches: at the next listen, the next time RustMusic starts or when an account is linked. The settings show how many listens are waiting, or “All listens have been sent”.