Status update, 16/02/2022

January 2022 was the sunniest January i’ve ever experienced. So I spent its precious weekends mostly climbing around in the outside world, and the weekdays preparing for the enourmous Python 3 migration that one of Codethink’s clients is embarking on.

Since I discovered Listenbrainz, I always wanted to integrate it with Calliope, with two main goals. The first, to use an open platform to share and store listen history rather than the proprietary Last.fm. And the second, to have an open, neutral place to share playlists rather than pushing them to a private platform like Spotify or Youtube. Over the last couple of months I found time to start that work, and you can now sync listen history and playlists with two new cpe listenbrainz-history and cpe listenbrainz commands. So far playlists can only be exported *from* Listenbrainz, and the necessary changes to the pylistenbrainz binding are still in review, but its a nice start.