Now Playing Setup

Make a free ListenBrainz account, connect Spotify in its settings under Connect services, and type your ListenBrainz username here. Already scrobbling to Last.fm? Spotify connects there too: pick Last.fm and type your Last.fm username instead.

Any player that tells ListenBrainz or Last.fm what’s playing as a song starts. Spotify connects to both in their settings. For YouTube Music, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Deezer and others in the browser, the free Web Scrobbler extension does it, and most desktop and phone players have a scrobbler plugin or app.

The overlay asks for your song every 12 seconds, and your player or Spotify tells ListenBrainz or Last.fm with a delay of its own, so a new song can take up to a minute to show. When the music stops, the song slides away after the time you set, or stays up dimmed if you turned hiding off.

Yes. The overlay reads the same public profile anyone can open on ListenBrainz or Last.fm, and your username is in the widget URL. It shows only the song playing now, never your history. On Last.fm, hiding your recent listening in its privacy settings hides it from the overlay too.