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=== Listening History ===
=== Listening History ===


Tools
Tools to export scrobbles


* LastScrape GUI http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/
==== LastScrape GUI ====
* LastToLibre https://gitorious.org/fmthings/lasttolibre
https://github.com/encukou/lastscrape-gui
* Playlistify (Limited Export) http://playlistify.org/
 
* Official exporter http://www.last.fm/settings/dataexporter
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.


There's some tools available via http://build.last.fm/ as well.
=== User Profile Image ===
=== User Profile Image ===



Latest revision as of 17:12, 24 May 2022

Last.fm
Last.fm logo
The home page of Last.fm, as seen on May 4, 2013.
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

?

Archives

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

Alternative services

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