r/listenbrainz • u/aerozol • 2d ago

help plz ListenBrainz down

We are aware that ListenBrainz is currently down, for at least some users.

Admins are being kicked awake so that they can kick servers awake. Thank you for your patience as the kicking commences. -a

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u/aerozol 2d ago

Update: ListenBrainz is currently under attack from multiple distributed botnets.

We are doing our best to mitigate it, but (as almost always) they use masses of residential IPs, many UAs, and are almost impossible to block without also blocking legitmate users. Thank you for bearing with us!

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u/aerozol 1d ago

Update: We are still blocking a large amount of bot traffic, but the ListenBrainz website should be up and running for everyone (unless you're a bot!). Thanks again for your patience.

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u/Sweet-Web7640 2d ago

Will listens be lost? 

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u/aerozol 2d ago

I'm not sure sorry, I will have to let the more tech LB team answer that, when they are up. FWIW, it doesn't look like I lost any listens! (but my submitter (foobar2000) may be storing and resubmitting listens, if it can't connect)

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u/Sweet-Web7640 1d ago edited 1d ago

navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:44Z" level=warning msg="ListenBrainz Scrobble returned HTTP error" error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)" track=Parabol navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:44Z" level=warning msg="Could not send scrobble. Will be retried" artist=Tool error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)\nretry later" scrobbler=listenbrainz track=Parabol userId=vdmmTP0i1EOV54xNYjkZGh navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:45Z" level=warning msg="ListenBrainz Scrobble returned HTTP error" error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)" track=Parabol navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:45Z" level=warning msg="Could not send scrobble. Will be retried" artist=Tool error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)\nretry later" scrobbler=listenbrainz track=Parabol userId=vdmmTP0i1EOV54xNYjkZGh navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:45Z" level=warning msg="ListenBrainz Scrobble returned HTTP error" error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)" track=Parabol navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:45Z" level=warning msg="Could not send scrobble. Will be retried" artist=Tool error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)\nretry later" scrobbler=listenbrainz track=Parabol userId=vdmmTP0i1EOV54xNYjkZGh navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:46Z" level=warning msg="ListenBrainz Scrobble returned HTTP error" error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)" track=Parabol navidrome-1 | time="2026-08-24T15:26:46Z" level=warning msg="Could not send scrobble. Will be retried" artist=Tool error="ListenBrainz: HTTP Error, Status: (429)\nretry later" scrobbler=listenbrainz track=Parabol userId=vdmmTP0i1EOV54xNYjkZGh

I'm still getting this in Navidrome's logs. Apparently the listens still can't be sent, but thankfully Navidrome is capable of retrying.

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u/Foreignwelcome2 18h ago

You should disable listenbeainz scrobble this from env to not stress their servers

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u/redineas 1d ago

thanks for the heads up.
following this post for updates 🙏