New! Syndication Feeds in ListenBrainz

Some days everything comes together, and this is one of those days. We now have a range of Syndication Feeds (aka RSS or Atom feeds) available in ListenBrainz.

Look for the feed symbol in the following places in ListenBrainz:

• Fresh Releases
• Fresh Releases For You
• User Listens
• User Stats (top artists/albums/tracks)
• Stats Art Creator (album art grids!)
• Created For You Playlists (daily/weekly playlists)
• User Created Playlists

I personally have been following my Fresh Releases feed since I “quickly tested” it, five months ago. It’s now my primary way of staying on top of fresh releases from artists I’ve listened to before!

Have fun with it. Follow your friends. Get a monthly top albums update from a user whose taste you like. Make a collaborative playlist with a family member and get notified when they add to it. Follow global fresh releases and unleash a firehose of daily release notifications!

But we’re not just excited because of the immediate benefits for users, this opens up a lot of scope for developer integration. These feeds offer a simple way for developers to integrate updates into their own projects – we can think of a few things this will be useful for (fresh releases on my desktop & automated weekly posting of my album art grids to my social channels, please and thank you) but usually the dev community ends up surprising us with something completely new.

We are interested in seeing feeds improved and expanded to other areas of ListenBrainz, as wanted and needed by the community, but our internal developer capacity will now shift elsewhere. If you are interested in more functionality we always invite you to leave comments, or open tickets on the MetaBrainz ticket tracker, but above all we invite you to develop improvements and submit pull requests to the ListenBrainz codebase.

Thanks to Eric Deng (ericd), who spearheaded this update as part of his GSoC 2024 project, and to all the ListenBrainz team members that added extra polish for launch.