> simply providing metadata about what you are listening to

scrobbling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm#Scrobbling

edit: I had to go just a bit further into this rabbit hole. Apparently the term "scrobble" is still a registered trademark of Last.fm, a company owned by ViacomCBS.

There's the open source ListenBrainz project, which uses "listen" instead:

https://listenbrainz.org/faq/