Bye bye, Spotify

As an alternative to Spotify, I recently started using using Navidrome. For recommendations, I also started scrobbling to Listenbrainz.

I thought it would be cool to embed a little widget onto my website to show what I was listening to, but I couldn’t find a Listenbrainz widget anywhere in the wild, so I built one myself.

How it works

The widget reaches out to the Listenbrainz API to see what I’m listening to (or what I last listened to) and displays it with a link that takes you to my Listenbrainz profile.

Here’s what it looks like (you can also see it on the homepage):

It’s Jekyll ready

Because I’m using Jekyll to build my site, I built it as an Include, but it should be fairly easy to adapt it for use elsewhere.

You can find the source for it on the Github repo that builds this site:

• HTML: now_playing.html
• JavaScript: now_playing.js