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Selfhostable alternative to last.fm (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm interested in selfhosting, if possible, an equivelant to last.fm -- it would analyze the history of what I listen to, and provide me with recommendations, and listening history reports.

Aside, last.fm as a federated service would be quite interesting. It would be neat to add a federated social media aspect to it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Not really meant for self hosting, but have you looked at listenbrainz? The software and data is open and it’s not a commercial service.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How would these recommendations be generated. Will you host for loads of people or just sit there with your single datapoint?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's a fair point that I had not considered -- it's a shortcoming in the premise of my inquiry. I wonder if it's possible, if at all, to create any recommendation service that doesn't compromise on user privacy. It may not be, as it would require a user's history, which, given enough entries, can be used to identify them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its possible with anonymous data. But you do need other user's data. So it would need to somehow be not just self-hostee but also federated. With lots of dsts from other servers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The issue, I think, is that having access to a user's entire listening history could very well be used to identify that user -- one's full listening history is likely to be rather unique.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I've used libre.fm before but it seems the project is not active anymore.

https://github.com/mattl/librefm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I've never used it but Majola seems to still be active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You'll need some kind of database if you want recommendations... Listenbrainz's data is open, so you might find some self-hosted service that uses that database and local history for recomendations, but... why not just contributing your scrobbles to that awesome project?

They do require an email for signup, but IMO they are trustworthy and you can just use some anonymous email if it's important to you to really stay anonymous.