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Last.fm | |
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![]() 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