[Feature request] Ability to scrobble music to Last.fm

[r0bbie]

Is your feature request related to a usage problem (not a bug)? Please describe. It would be great to have the ability to scrobble music listening to via FreeTube to Last.fm. There are browser plugins which can accomplish the same thing when listening to music on YouTube, so this theoretically should be possible.

Describe the solution you'd like to see implemented A setting to authorise FreeTube to scrobble music listened to to your Last.fm account. Could either attempt to automatically recognise when a song / music video is being played, or provide a button for the user to instantly toggle a scrobble on for a particular video. Not sure the best UX around that.

[peepo5]

What does scrobble mean

[r0bbie]

Scrobbling is the term Last.fm (and some similar services) use for tracking the activity of an individual listen to a specific song, and notifying Last.fm of this so it can be logged and displayed on your profile. Your Last.fm profile then acts as a record of all of the songs you listened to, and when (and provides interesting stats like your top artists for the month / year, etc)

More info here with some of the example platforms which support scrobbling - https://www.last.fm/about/trackmymusic 
So for example, Spotify has a Last.fm integration where you can log into your account in Spotify settings, and all song plays are automatically scrobbled (log sent) to Last.fm (though there are far more apps and open source projects that support this than listed there, I have my Jellyfin instance linked to Last.fm to scrobble all music played, for example)

Scrobbling documentation for the Last.fm API - https://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling

[1to]

I'd like to add that not only Last.fm uses scrobbling, there are also other services, including FOSS services like Maloja and Libre.fm. It is possible to scrobble from the browser using this open-source web scrobbler, capable of scrobbling to Last.fm, Libre.fm, ListenBrainz and Maloja, but it would be great to have the same functionality built into FreeTube.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

This is what I think the requirements should be:

• support multiple scrobblers (lastfm, librefm, listenbrainz, and maloja)
• majority of code should be handled by a seperate library so we dont have to worry about maintaining it
• option to configure scrobble time (how much of the video do you have to watch before it scrobbles)
• automatic/manual scrobbles (whether to send scrobbles right away or manually do it from settings screen)
• allow editing titles and artists if doing manual scrobbles

Things we don't need:

• ability to heart tracks

This is what I think needs to be done before implementing:

• Allow encrypting files (so we dont save plaintext passwords for these services
• We need to find a library that will handle the connections for us that is hopefully still maintained

[Raxen001]

I like to see this added too

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

FYI Last.fm privacy policy directs to https://privacy.paramount.com/en/policy?r=www.last.fm which is a privacy nightmare so that wont be supported as it goes against our principles

Didnt look into the FOSS platforms yet.