Listening synchronization with listenbrainz

petitminion

We plan to sync listening with listenbrainz. For now we can scroble listening for funkwhale to lb. This feature will allow to sync lb listening to fw.

Proposition :

This will be optional. It will be a user setting independent from the lb scrobbler
Lb Listenings will have its own model table called ListenbrainzListenings
A task will sync listening every by default day. The server admin will be able to customized this.
The task will try to resolve lb listenings to fw track only for tracks having a mbid. (no use of the typesense resolver)
Radios queryset and recently listen endpoints will be update to take into account lb listenings.

What do you think ?

petitminion

spec is here https://pad.funkwhale.audio/E0fJmwFPQpO097nylRblHw?edit. Coding will start next week unless there is something to add

petitminion

Coding started : I have a technical question. Do we want to guess the mbid of the tracks using our resolver ? If we don’t a lot listens will not be imported. So I’m in favor to guess them, or try to use the guesses lb does (not figured out yet how)

gcrk

@petitminion Is the spec already merged into the repository?

In which direction do you need to have mbids? As far as I am aware the current scrobbler doesn’t put mbids into the request, does it?

petitminion

gcrk no it’s not merge yet, there is a Mr waiting review

The problem come when requesting listening to lb. The scribblers send mbid, if there is not a mbid, lb guesse one but the actual lb api doesn’t include the guessed mbid. I can make a request to lb so they send back the guessed mbid in their API. Or we can make our own guess

gcrk

I checked and answered in the MR. Its here: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/merge_requests/2652

Well, since we don’t send the MBID right now, we probably should start doing it if available. Since we are already trying to guess MBIDs, we can fall back to a guessed MBID if available.

petitminion

gcrk seems implemented in their api : https://community.metabrainz.org/t/return-guessed-mbid-on-the-listenbrainz-api/668454 don’t know why I didn’t see it while testing