Last.fm

Last.fm
The home page of Last.fm, as seen on May 4, 2013.
URL	http://last.fm/
Status	Special case (switching codebases, some user data might die)
Archiving status	Partially saved (forum in all languages, part of users)
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	lastfm-discovery, lastfm-grab, lastfm-items
Project tracker	lastfmdisco, lastfm
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint) (formerly #lastchance.fm (on EFnet))
Data[how to use]	archiveteam_lastfm

What's there?

• Your "scrobbled" listening history of songs you've listened to sent by supported software, including "Loved tracks"
• Your playlists generated on the website
• Artist Wiki biographies (licensed Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike, and GNU Free Documentation), album wikis, track wikis, label wikis, and tag wikis
• A page for each artist, album, track, label, user, tag, and group
• Artist and label images
• Album artwork (can be multiple images for an album)
• Like/dislike votes on images (including album artwork)
• Forums
• Event Calendars
• Your user submitted profile image
• Your user journal entries
• Your friends list
• Events user went to
• Some artists have uploaded tracks, which are free to download
• per user "badges" showing top tracks, # tracks listened to, popular this week tracks etc.
• users' About Me profiles, and where they're from
• Groups, group forums, group connections, and group articles (group journals)
• Shoutboxes (comment areas) on users, groups, musicians, albums, tracks, labels, tags, and pictures (including album artwork)
• Help pages http://www.last.fm/help
• Last.fm Originals http://originals.last.fm/
• "Tools, Plugins & more" http://build.last.fm/

Getting it Out

Listening History

Tools to export scrobbles

LastScrape GUI

https://github.com/encukou/lastscrape-gui

The useful script here is lastexport.py. The user's history must be public, though.

LastToLibre

https://gitorious.org/fmthings/lasttolibre

Playlistify

(limited export)

http://playlistify.org (dead?)

Official exporter

http://www.last.fm/settings/dataexporter (dead)

Misc

There were some tools available via http://build.last.fm as well.

User Profile Image

Access your profile, right click image, Save Image

Can get it bigger by changing the image size parameter (default 126) to 500 (or maybe more?)

Wiki

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Archives

Forum in all languages: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_lastfm

Alternative services

• Libre.fm - Open source clone, no apparent user costs