🎵 What's Now Playing BETA

What's Now Playing Charts is a real-time music discovery platform that tracks what streamers and content creators are listening to. We aggregate music data from streaming communities to create dynamic charts showing trending tracks, popular artists, and musical discoveries.

To start tracking your music:

1. Download and install the What's Now Playing client
2. Start playing music - your tracks will automatically appear on the charts!
3. Sign up for an account using your Twitch or Kick credentials and claim the anonymous key from your client on your dashboard

Finding your Charts API key:

While our platform is designed with streamers in mind, anyone can create an account and track their music listening habits. Your data contributes to the community charts and helps others discover great music.

Our charts are based on real-time play data, ranked by total play count across all users. Charts can be filtered by time period (last 24 hours, week, month, or all time) to see what's trending recently versus all-time favorites.

Top Artists Ranking: Artists are ranked by the total number of unique song-user combinations. Each song by an artist gets one point for every different user who plays it.

For example:

• If 5 users each play 3 different songs by Artist A = 15 points
• If 10 users all play the same 1 song by Artist B = 10 points
• Artist A would rank higher

This formula rewards both cross-user popularity and song diversity, giving a balanced view of which artists resonate most broadly across the streaming community.

This can happen when:

• Your DJ software or streaming setup doesn't provide complete metadata
• The track is very new or obscure and not in our databases
• The audio file has incomplete or corrupted tags

If you consistently see "Unknown Artist" for tracks that should be identifiable, please let us know so we can investigate.

Yes! Your dashboard shows your account settings, API key management, and basic statistics. Your profile page also displays your most played tracks, artists, and genre breakdown based on your listening history.

The What's Now Playing client supports most popular setups and even some obscure ones including:

• Denon standalone controllers
• Icecast-compatible setups (butt, MIXX, etc)
• JRiver Media Player
• Linux MPRIS2
• MegaSeg
• Radiologik
• Serato
• Spotify, Amazon Music, Winamp, and other players that support Windows Media notifications
• Traktor
• Virtual DJ
• And many more!

Currently, vinyl-only setups are not supported as the audio identification technology required would make this service prohibitively expensive to offer for free.

CDJ support is in development but requires hardware testing. If you're in the SF Bay Area and have access to CDJ equipment, please contact us to help with development and testing.

Unfortunately, Rekordbox support is not available due to restrictive licensing terms from AlphaTheta. We'd love to support it, but their closed platform policies make implementation legally risky. If you're interested in Rekordbox support, we encourage reaching out to AlphaTheta to request more open integration policies.

If your tracks aren't showing up, try these troubleshooting steps:

1. Verify your API key is correctly configured in the client (see image below)
2. Ensure your DJ software or streaming setup is supported and detected by the client
3. Look for any error messages in the client logs
4. Try restarting both your DJ software and the WNP client

Charts API key location in client:

Still having issues? Contact our support team.

We collect basic track information including:

• Song title and artist name
• Album information (when available)
• Timestamp when the track was played
• Platform information (Twitch, Kick, etc.)

We do not store any personal files, lyrics, or audio content.

Yes! You have full control over your privacy settings:

• Profile Visibility: Make your profile public or private
• Chart Participation: Choose whether your plays appear on public charts
• Data Export: Download your complete listening history anytime
• Account Deletion: Permanently remove all your data

Adjust these settings in your dashboard.

We use multiple methods to accurately identify tracks:

• ISRC codes for precise track identification
• MusicBrainz database for rich metadata and genre information
• Smart text normalization to handle variations in track titles and artist names
• Context-aware matching using album and year information

We'd love to hear from you! You can:

• Send us a message through our contact form
• Join our community Discord for real-time support
• Report technical issues on our GitHub repository

Yes! What's Now Playing Charts is completely free to use. We're passionate about music discovery and building tools for the streaming community. The service is funded by the What's Now Playing project.