[ikesau]

I love this.

Maybe these are incompatible desires, but I would really like some kind of system that allows me to own and present my own music listening data while also allowing me to interoperate with a broader music listening culture.

Newsletters and blogs are great for discovery, but I also really value the way my last.fm has allowed me to recall a band I used to listen to a decade ago because I can remember a few of their contemporaries that are neighbours in the Similar Artists graph.

[wrayjustin]

Do you mean something like last.fm with their API [0]? Or did you have something more in mind?

[0] https://www.last.fm/api

[RealStickman_]

I think you can self host ListenBrainz, or use their public instance. I started scrobbling all my music consumption a few months ago.

Being part of MusicBrainz, they also have metadata for most tracks or you can amend it yourself.

[ikesau]

Ah, this might be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!