Why was Libre.fm support removed
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Why was support for Libre fm removed? Is there another way to scrobble to libre.fm?
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I noticed that the service had been unresponsive for a long time, so I did a little research and noticed the website had been replaced with "Time is running out.", "The web is being destroyed from within by companies harvesting the creative work", links to "1800www.com" and other weird stuff. Typical stuff for a site that has been hacked, so to be honest, I thought the site was hacked.
When researching more, I found several sources confirming that the libre.fm was shut down.
Including Wikipedia.org who had already listed it as "Closed": it says: "Libre.fm closed on May 28, 2025, with account registration shut down and the website put into maintenance mode", not that Wikipedia itself is a trustworthy source, but I also saw other articles confirming that libre.fm had been shut down, so that's why I've removed it. -
@jonas libre.fm isn't closed or closing as can be seen here: https://libre.fm/user/mattl
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@205gti
The author posted in May on https://github.com/mattl/hacienda/discussions/117 that "I have taken the decision in light of recent events to close Libre.fm permanently.", then he changed this statement several times, but until recently it has been pretty clear that libre.fm was more or less closed. Apparently he changed his mind in the last few days and relaunched a new site replacing the bare bone strange site that was in place of the original site.
But this doesn't change the fact that libre.fm has been unstable for years, hardly anyone uses it, and seem to be pretty much a one-man project going nowhere. I've also pretty much lost my trust in libre.fm.
We already got both last.fm and listenbrainz as an alternative, I see no point in adding it back. -
Yes, it's a one person project at this point.
However, to say hardly anyone uses it seems a little unusual. We have hundreds of thousands of users.
And yes, I was very very tired of the site being hammered by so-called "AI" scrapers and running slow. I've gotten this under control now.
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@jonas said in Why was Libre.fm support removed:
I noticed that the service had been unresponsive for a long time, so I did a little research and noticed the website had been replaced with "Time is running out.", "The web is being destroyed from within by companies harvesting the creative work", links to "1800www.com" and other weird stuff. Typical stuff for a site that has been hacked, so to be honest, I thought the site was hacked.
The entire time that was on the homepage, there were also Recently Played tracks and I never heard from you. A quick email would have set things correct.
I have a number of people asking me about Strawberry, if you won't add support back do you have a suggestion for an alternative player?
It's a shame two open source projects can't benefit the users.
