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The team is still working on the site and updates about monthly, I don't think it will die so quickly. Anyway, I always recommend to be prepared and backup your scrobbles, just in case: Scrubbler & Listenbrainz
The ironic thing is that they do use the MusicBrainz data. Sigh. But, do you know about the ListenBrainz project? we're working to make an open source last.fm:
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https://listenbrainz.org/user/rob/reports/?range=month
We're adding new features every week!
I completely stopped visiting Last.fm after they downgraded the site, but I still keep scrobbling because I hope a good alternative to Last.fm will show up - and they certainly will have a way to import your data from Last.fm.
Now I started making backups of my listening history to ListenBrainz and I do hope this project takes off, since MusicBrainz is more trustworthy than Last.fm:
>The project has two main goals: > >Allow users to preserve their existing Last.fm® data. (...) > >Make this incredibly useful music usage data available to anyone who cares to play with it. (...)
I recommend you guys check it out.
I dont think anything like that will happen, but if it happens its not that big of a deal for me as i export the scrobbles like once per month.
I recommend you to do the same, maybe and hopefully it is not needed, but if it happens you will be really thankfull to yourself when you have a recent backup of the scrobbles. Here is the tool I use. You can also use a second database that does the same as lastfm to keep track of it, that way there is always a backup. An example would be Listenbrainz.
There's listenbrainz which is open source and there's even a way to import your last.fm scrobbles to it.
But if your issue is just changing your username, you may create a new account. Last.fm is quite constrained in development time and even though I'd like to have the option to change usernames as much as you, it is not a priority (what value would it bring to the platform as a whole? what percentage of users does this affect? and what revenue would it generate?)
The only problem is i love tracking what i listen to, and i can't use Listenbrainz on spotify from what I've seen.
It’s not automatic, but ListenBrainz has built‐in function to ingest your Last.fm scrobbles into itself: https://listenbrainz.org/profile/import – if you run this ("manually") 'on a regular basis', it should do what you want, I think?
Checate el dataset de listenbrainz y las herramientas que tienen para scrapear reportes de last.fm (antes podías bajar los datasets pero ya quirarojb los links)
Yeah I would imagine they are using whatever dataset Last.FM sells to keep afloat. You can scrape their crowd-generated genre tags from both artists and albums with beets, which is quite useful, but not a perfect solution either.
Having a decade+ of my own listening history from Last.FM was useful but obviously the metadata doesn't match up perfectly to my beets library (although they both use musicbrainz IDs just last.fm's data isn't complete).
If any of yall reading this have extensive Last.FM histories please make a ListenBrainz account and sync it https://listenbrainz.org/
that's basically the answer but it's only as good the data in it really.
Here's the docker-compose.yml used to run Listenbrainz on https://listenbrainz.org.
For selfhosting you probably don't need to run the bigquery writer and depending on your setup, the spotify reader and Last.fm compatible API.
ListenBrainz won't automatically import new scrobbles but you can re-import at any point in time and shouldn't get any duplicates.
There are a couple working clients for ListenBrainz but you can also get Last.fm clients to scrobble to LB by editing your hosts file.
Same issue, a huge batch of scrobbles from an old itunes import can't be deleted.
Edit: Also, it's not ready for primetime yet, but keep an eye out for https://listenbrainz.org. It should be a non-bullshit alternative to last.fm when it's ready.