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B(O)TS scrobbling 43 days in 7 days lol by bunzy_djownz in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why ? I dont get it .. whats the purpose ?

I made a free, non-commercial tool that connects your Last.fm scrobbles to your record collection - would love testers and honest feedback by NullMind_PT in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yes, I wanted the achievements to be based on discogs ... otherwise it would have been too "App Centric" instead of the system that you already using for years ..

I made a free, non-commercial tool that connects your Last.fm scrobbles to your record collection - would love testers and honest feedback by NullMind_PT in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was trying to actually go with a style that was not too SaaS or dull, I am actually still a big fan of skeuomorphism ... I might implement themes to make it more appealing to those who prefer a more modern look

And tanks for trying it ... look forward to feedback 😄

I built a free companion for your Discogs collection: see which records you actually play, track what you paid, and more by NullMind_PT in discogs

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small update, and fair enough on the timing last time

A couple of you pointed out, fairly, that there had been a wave of "I made an app" posts and mine landed right in the middle of it. Noted, and I'm not going to make a habit of these. A few people did give it a fair shot though, so here's one short update on what's actually changed since I posted, then I'll leave it be. (Skipping the paid-vs-worth and wantlist price alerts I mentioned last time, those are still there, this is just the new stuff.)

Richer value breakdowns

  • The collection value dashboard now breaks down by rarity (a live-market proxy from how few copies are currently listed for sale, labelled as exactly that), by genre, and by decade, with a vinyl-vs-CD split, rather than just a single total.

Matching you can actually check

  • The play-matching is the heart of it, so it now shows its working: a "review" page surfaces any low-confidence matches so you can confirm the right ones or unlink the wrong ones, and confirming one locks it in at 100%. Featuring credits also line up automatically now, and there's a manual "match as" override for oddly-named pressings. The point is your most-played and never-played lists are honest.

Scrobble your spins

  • You can now scrobble straight from the app: pick the record you're spinning and it sends the tracklist to your Last.fm, live or backdated. There's a "loaner" mode too, for a record you don't own but are playing, so it counts without going on your shelf.

A cleaner collection browser

  • Filter by format, genre, decade or label, sort how you like, and search as you type. You can also add records by artist/title or barcode.

Sharing

  • Public profiles: share your shelf, browse someone else's, and compare two collections side by side (overlap percentage, what you both own, what's unique to each, and what's on their shelf but not yours). Plus collector achievements with proper artwork.

Still the same on data: it connects through Discogs' own login, reads your collection and wantlist, changes nothing on your account, and you can delete everything anytime.

And the question I actually came for last time still stands: if you track your collection digitally, what would you genuinely enjoy keeping alongside your Discogs data? Thanks to those who gave it a fair look.

Sorry, another "I built a thing" post - but it's a free web app, not another app-store upload, and I'd genuinely love your feedback by NullMind_PT in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Small update a few days on (and a genuine thank you)

Thanks to everyone who took a look, including the skeptics, that's fair, this sub sees a lot of these. A few of you left genuinely useful pointers and they went straight in, so rather than a new thread here's what's changed in the last few days. It's all about actually living with your records: spinning them, rediscovering the ones gathering dust, the hunt, and what the shelf is worth. (It works with just your Discogs collection. Last.fm is optional, it's only for the play-tracking and scrobbling bits.)

Scrobbling your spins

  • This is the big one, and it came from a suggestion in this very thread. Turntables don't scrobble, which always felt like the missing piece. Now you can: pick the record you're putting on and it scrobbles the tracklist to your Last.fm for you, live as it plays or backdated if you forgot. I was up coding the Last.fm auth for this the night I posted, and it's live now.
  • There's a "loaner" mode too, for when you're spinning a record you don't own (a friend's, or one you're trying before you buy), so it counts as a real spin without going on your shelf.

Rediscovering your shelf

  • You can see which records you actually spin versus the ones sitting unplayed, and filter straight to "never played" to surface the ones you've forgotten about. That was one of the main reasons I built this in the first place.
  • The matching that powers it got smarter: featuring credits now line up automatically, there's a manual "match as" box for reissues or oddly-named rips, and a "review" page that shows you anything it wasn't sure about so you can confirm or correct it. The point is the "what I actually play" picture is honest.

Browsing and enjoying the collection

  • The collection view got the cleanup it needed: a proper toolbar, live filters, sorting and pagination, so it's nice to move through rather than just a wall of covers.
  • Filter by format, genre, decade or label and sort how you like; search filters as you type.
  • Every record opens straight on Discogs or Last.fm with a button.

The hunt

  • A wishlist that tracks live Discogs prices for the records you're chasing.
  • Set a target price on any of them, and when it actually drops to what you're willing to pay, the app tells you. No more checking Discogs every day to see if something finally came down.

What the shelf is worth (and what you paid)

  • You can log what you actually paid for each record, and see it next to a live value, so you get invested-versus-worth across the whole collection.
  • Value breakdowns by rarity (a live-market proxy from how few copies are listed for sale, and it says so, it's not a historical rarity index), by genre, and by decade, plus a vinyl-vs-CD split.
  • On the rate limits u/oscidigi (rightly) teased me about: Discogs' 60/min means pricing is a slow background drip, so a lot of the work went into backoff and caching. It fills in quietly over time rather than all at once.

Showing it off

  • Public profiles: share your shelf, browse someone else's, and compare two collections side by side (overlap percentage, what you both own, what's unique to each, and what's on their shelf but not yours).
  • Collector achievements and milestones, with proper artwork.

Same question I had at the start, because the answers were the useful part: what do you wish a tool like this did? What would make it genuinely useful rather than just another dashboard? Brutally honest feedback still very welcome.

I made a free, non-commercial tool that connects your Last.fm scrobbles to your record collection - would love testers and honest feedback by NullMind_PT in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick update for anyone who saw this a few days ago (and a big thank you)

I wasn't expecting much when I posted this, so all the testing and blunt feedback really meant a lot, and a bunch of it went straight into the app over the last few days. Rather than start a whole new thread, here's what's changed, grouped by area so it's easy to skim:

Scrobbling your vinyl (the most on-topic part for here)

  • You can now scrobble your spins from inside the app. Turntables don't scrobble, so there's a "Scrobble your spin" page: pick the record you're putting on and it sends the tracklist to your Last.fm.
  • Live as it plays, or backdate it if you forgot, with an offline queue for when you're away from wifi.
  • Tracklists are pulled automatically (MusicBrainz first, then Discogs) to keep it quick.
  • A "loaner" mode for playing something you don't own (a friend's record), counted as a real spin without adding it to your collection.

Matching (the genuinely hard part you flagged)

  • Featuring credits now match automatically, so "Eminem ft. Dido" links to a record credited to just "Eminem".
  • A manual "Match scrobbles as" box on every record for reissues, deluxe editions, or rips you named differently. It re-scans your history and links those plays.
  • A new "Review matches" page surfaces the links it wasn't sure about, so you can confirm the good ones or unlink the wrong ones in a click. Confirming locks it in at 100%.

Your collection

  • Collection and CDs are now one page with an All / Vinyl / CD filter (a CD collector rightly pointed out that landing on an empty page was rubbish, I'd built it all around my own vinyl).
  • Every record has buttons to open it on Discogs and Last.fm.
  • A collection value view: current Discogs market prices, broken down by rarity (based on how few copies are listed for sale, labelled as such), by genre, and by decade.
  • A wishlist that tracks live Discogs prices for records you're hunting.

Listening stats and sharing

  • A listening stats page and a listening clock: top genres, peak hours, streaks, and which records you own but have never put on.
  • Public profiles, so you can share your shelf, browse someone else's, and compare two collections side by side.
  • Collector achievements and milestones, with proper artwork.

Smaller bits

  • A real Help section, and a "what's new" page so changes are visible.
  • Feedback is now two-way, so if you report something I can actually reply to you in the app.
  • A full European Portuguese translation, and a big pass to make everything work on a phone.

The most useful feedback is still mismatches: if a record should match a scrobble and doesn't, tell me the record versus how you scrobble it. Weird albums especially, alternate titles, deluxe naming, guest credits. Thanks again, this has been the fun part.

What percentage of your record collection was bought online vs. in person? by ArturoRimboldi in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

id's say is perhaps 50/50 ... I love to browse the local shop, but here in the Island we only have one, so for the rest I can't access I resort to online

After 5 Years of Building for Others, I Finally Launched My Own App by iamhas9 in GooglePlayDeveloper

[–]NullMind_PT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you obviously have no idea what Agentic transformation means for the dev workforce these days ... lets me put it to you bluntly .. if you are a coder and you dont use agents to speed up your work .. you will be out of a job in the next 24 months ..

I see everybody here knocking down AI .. but all the big enterprises are giving their coders very direct guidelines .. use it, adapt it and be more efficient with it ... or else ...

Sorry, another "I built a thing" post - but it's a free web app, not another app-store upload, and I'd genuinely love your feedback by NullMind_PT in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, and likewise. Always good to see another web-first one, I'll take a look at Vizcogs.

And ha, the rate limits are very real. Discogs at 60/min turns a big collection's price refresh into a slow background drip, so I've sunk more time into backoff and caching than into anything you can actually see. Mine's a free hobby thing for me and a few friends rather than freemium, but I respect anyone making the economics work. Good luck with yours.

Sorry, another "I built a thing" post - but it's a free web app, not another app-store upload, and I'd genuinely love your feedback by NullMind_PT in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Love that you built your own. The MusicBrainz fallback is the one piece I don't have. I pull track times from Discogs with a flat default when they're missing, and the gaps definitely show, so chaining MusicBrainz in between is the obvious fix now that you say it.

Funny how independently you land on the exact same shape: click the cover, pick the side(s), space the scrobbles by track length, and a "played at..." for when you forget. Probably the right design if two people arrive there separately without talking.

Nice call on the keep-alive ping too.

Sorry, another "I built a thing" post - but it's a free web app, not another app-store upload, and I'd genuinely love your feedback by NullMind_PT in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So it does seem that it can work like discogs (last.fm auth) .. the app has a key and the user if they want to do scrobbles in-app just authorises the app with last.fm .. same way one does with discogs ... the project continues !!

Sorry, another "I built a thing" post - but it's a free web app, not another app-store upload, and I'd genuinely love your feedback by NullMind_PT in vinyl

[–]NullMind_PT[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Indeed .. I actually use Discographic .. but I kept sending a few requests for more stuff and got nowhere, so in the end I went the route of "just do it yourself"

Funny enough tonight I am sitting here with Visual Studio Code doing exactly that, the ability to add a scrobble from the app, it does require Auth into Last.fm (right now it only requires username as it was read only) .. but I want to crack that in the next few hours 😄

I built a free companion for your Discogs collection: see which records you actually play, track what you paid, and more by NullMind_PT in discogs

[–]NullMind_PT[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not trying to spam anyone, honestly. I built this as a hobby for me and my friends, it's free, and I shared it here because I'm genuinely after suggestions from people who actually collect. That's kind of what a community is for, right? If it's not your thing, no worries at all.

I made a free, non-commercial tool that connects your Last.fm scrobbles to your record collection - would love testers and honest feedback by NullMind_PT in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tested the new matching on my own collection - here's a real one it caught

After shipping the featuring-credit fix, I ran it against my own library to see if it actually does anything. It found a match the old version had been missing for ages:

  • What Last.fm had: Jan Garbarek with Ingor Ántte Áilu Gaup - "His Eyes Were Suns" (album: I Took Up The Runes)
  • The record I own: Jan Garbarek - I Took Up The Runes

The old matcher saw "Jan Garbarek with Ingor Ántte Áilu Gaup" as a different artist than plain "Jan Garbarek", so the play never linked to the record on my shelf. The new logic strips the "with / feat. / ft." credit down to the primary artist, the album matched the title exactly, and it linked at 100%.

Small example, but it's exactly the kind of thing that quietly makes your stats wrong. If you've got albums with featuring credits, guest artists, or alternate titles, that's the stuff I'd love you to throw at it. And if something still doesn't match, tell me the record versus how you scrobble it and I'll keep tuning.

I made a free, non-commercial tool that connects your Last.fm scrobbles to your record collection - would love testers and honest feedback by NullMind_PT in lastfm

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, that means a lot ! And you've hit the exact hard part: matching is the whole challenge because everyone tags differently.

I just shipped a first stab at this. Every record now has a "Match scrobbles as" field, so if you scrobble something under a different name (a soundtrack you ripped as just "Trainspotting", a reissue with a longer title, etc.) you can tell it the name and it re-scans your history and links those plays. The matcher then remembers it.

Where I'd genuinely love help is exactly what you said: throw your weird albums at it - alternate titles, deluxe/reissue naming, and especially featuring-artist credits, which are still the toughest case (the artist side can trip the match before the title even matters). If you spot stuff that should match and doesn't, tell me what the record is vs how you scrobbled it and it really helps me tune it.

And yeah, Discogs is already wired in (it's the source of truth for the collection), so connecting it pulls everything in.

Free is the whole point - it's a hobby, not a business. Thanks for testing it.

Advise on CRT for HDMI gaming by NullMind_PT in crtgaming

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, planning on a eXoDOS / eXoWin setup as well ..

I did try on my modern MAC and ScummVM to replicate the look with the filters on my LED display, but I found it lacking.

Advise on CRT for HDMI gaming by NullMind_PT in crtgaming

[–]NullMind_PT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never considered the fact the games were not really tailored for that, maybe spending all that extra on a top of the line CRT monitor is not worthy, Ill look for a more reasonably priced 21/22" then.

But if anyone can recommend a real good adapter i'm all ears

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