# What is Libre.fm?

Libre.fm is a website that allows you to share your listening habits and discover new music.

## Share your listening habits

To get started with Libre.fm, you install a small piece of software on your computer, which sends the title, artist and album of every song you listen to, to the Libre.fm website. We log this information against your unique profile page, where yourself and other users of the site can see which bands you listen to, and which songs you like. This is known to many people as scrobbling.

Many players already contain this software, but if you use Windows or Mac OS X you may have to download something to get started.

You may already have a piece of software that can do this for you, but it may be for Last.fm, a site similar to Libre.fm, but run by CBS. It is usually possible with these programs to simply tell your computer to send things to our website, instead of Last.fm. We have full instructions on how to do this, to help you get started as quickly as possible.

## Discover new music

At Libre.fm, we're constantly on the search for new artists releasing libre music. Libre music is music which allows you as a fan of the artist to download the music, share it and even incorporate it into your own videos, mix CDs and other creative works, legally. The artists who make these songs want you to do this with their work, and license it to the general public under a mechanism we call copyleft. Copyleft is very similar to copyright, but instead of the usual list of things you're not allowed to do, copyleft musicians flip things around, and let you do a wide range of exciting and interesting things with their music. If you enjoy their music, please consider helping the artist by buying downloads, CDs and merchandise from their website, or going to see them live. For many musicians, money made from gigs is a significant portion of their income.