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Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:50:01 -0000

Holy shit. How did you get that?

Re: Favoriting Music

Joe Lazarus — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:11:34 -0000

If you like that Last.fm visualization, you'll enjoy this...

http://lastgraph.s3.amazona...

That's a personalized version based on your own listening habits.

Re: Favoriting Music

Joe Lazarus — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:33:18 -0000

Cool. I'm working on some similar stuff. If I figure out the ideal solution, I'll let you know. In the meantime, check this out...

http://last.tumblr.com/

That site automatically updates with each track from my Last.fm feed. No filter yet, but I could add that. It's a work in progress.

~ Joe

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:00:02 -0000

I want it for friendfeed and tumblr so people can see direct links to songs
(in last.fm) when I pass a certain listening threshold

I think 3x in a week is a good place to start

fred

Re: Favoriting Music

Joe Lazarus — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:51:17 -0000

Fred, I took another look at this today. I'm curious... how exactly would you like the feed to work? What time frame would the play count threshold be based on? If it's ranked in chronological order, would tracks appear multiple times in the feed - once for each play after it crossed the threshold, or just the first time it crossed that mark? Do you see yourself displaying this in a widget with just a few recent / frequently played tracks, or as more of a lifestream / tumble blog where people can track your listening habits back in time by clicking through multiple pages?

Re: Favoriting Music

harpos_blues — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:06:38 -0000

Fred,

Sorry for the delay commenting on this post, but here goes:

To scrobble last.fm listens from iTunes use the user contributed plug-in, iScrobbler. This is a fantastic piece of software, it acts passively to submit all your songs to last.fm and has a very small footprint (much smaller than than the "official" last.fm client. Set iScrobbler to auto-launch in System Preferences->User Accounts->Log-in Items on your Mac(s). The 2.0 beta(s) also include last.fm radio support. You can download iScrobbler here: http://www.last.fm/group/iS...

To scrobble last.fm listens from Rhapsody use RhapsodyScrobbler, Though as I've read in the last.fm forums the earlier plug-in may not work with Rhapsody's compulsory 4.0 upgrade. RhapsodyScrobbler is available here: http://www.atlansky.com/dev.... Relevant forum last.fm forum post here: http://www.last.fm/forum/21...

To scrobble from your bicycle/car/yacht: All of the official last.fm clients offer iPod support, and many user-contributed last.fm plug-ins offer support for the ipod as well as other/alternative portable music playback devices. Check the last.fm community forums for device support (ie go to http://www.last.fm/forum/) and search for the name of your device.

To scrobble

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:35:01 -0000

So that I can tell the world what I am listening to and loving at the moment

Fred

Re: Favoriting Music

jackson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:40:32 -0000

Why?

Re: Favoriting Music

Nick — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:16:45 -0000

is there a last.fm equivalent for books?

Re: Favoriting Music

phil — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:20:23 -0000

Top Tracks
50 most played tracks from a music profile
Add ?type=<3month|6month|12month> for alternate charts

It seems they have alternatives to just 'this week'. Still no threshold though.

Re: Favoriting Music

Joe Lazarus — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:16:49 -0000

It's based on the weekly chart that Last.fm generates, so whatever they default to. Psyched to hear you're a Pipes user. I love that you like to get your hands dirty with this stuff.

Re: Favoriting Music

mturro — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:12:24 -0000

I've been wrestling with this same theme... namely how to digitally represent the way the music I listen to informs or helps create who I am. It would seem at first blush to be a relatively simple thing, but as I noted in a recent post on my blog, it can get complicated quickly:

http://mturro.bluepear.org/...

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:06:13 -0000

joe, this is what i've been looking for. how far back in time does it go?

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:00:36 -0000

joelaz - i tried to do this in pipes and came up empty. obviously you are a better hacker than me!!

i will give it a look

thanks

fred

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:59:27 -0000

if you do this, please share it with me

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:58:59 -0000

love 'em both

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:58:32 -0000

yup. and i want them sourced up as a link in my blog or lifestream that can be clicked on and played (like the delicous playtagger does)

Re: Favoriting Music

Joe Lazarus — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:49:40 -0000

Try this Fred:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipe...

Let me know if you'd like any changes. I'll sex it up a bit with some album art over the weekend.

If you haven't checked out Yahoo! Pipes, you should take a look. I created that feed in 5 minutes with no programing skills whatsoever. It's a great tool for remixing the web.

Full disclosure: I work for Yahoo! (though not on the Pipes team)

Re: Favoriting Music

Fraser — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:58:27 -0000

I used to add songs I loved to an iTunes playlist dubbed "The List". I put it on yesterday and realized I haven't updated it in 6 months. I went to bed wishing that there was a smart playlist that created dynamic playlists similar to the way you wish they were broadcast in your lifestream... Include songs that have been played: over the long-term W amount, over the past 3 months X amount, over the past 1 month Y amount , and over the past week Z amount. Where W > X > Y > Z.

It captures my "favourites" accurately, doesn't force me to add the Sir Duke song I bought last week but have listened to 20 times since, and filters for time properly.

Re: Favoriting Music

steve odom — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:25:03 -0000

I hear you on this one, Fred. I've been wanting to get my weekly album list in my tumblr feed since I figured out the genius of tumblr a few weeks ago. I don't know why last.fm's most recent song feed is offered in rss, but the weekly album list is xml. I've been kicking around building a simple app that takes your last.fm xml feed and converts it to a rss feed that tumblr can use.

Re: Favoriting Music

Steve Poland — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:32:21 -0000

Fred -- agreed; the more implicit, the better. But I still hate that all my MP3/CD listening in my car isn't tracked in last.fm -- same with my XBOX 360 through my stereo (that pulls mp3s from my laptop). I don't think it'll ever happen, but I wish my Last.fm was perfect :)

Actually I did hear about some cell phone that people are getting that grabs a sound clip every 10 seconds or something and calculates what you're listening too -- song, commercial, etc -- for research purposes.

p.s. I saw Of Montreal a couple nights ago -- unbelievable show. F'in fantastic -- they are just amazing. Night before I saw The National, which was equally as great. I know you're a fan of both.

Re: Favoriting Music

J Herskowitz — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:30:36 -0000

I agree. The hard part is the time-sensitivity to "favorites". Just because I listened "And the Cradle Will Rock" thousands of times in the 80's doesn't mean I'd still consider it a "favorite". The same lack of time sensitivity is a problem for ratings, I (and I'm sure others as well) find the notion of rating something with a fixed score paralyzing and the thought often keeps me from rating anything ("yeah, but will I still think it is 5 stars next year?"). If I do rate it, do I need to regularly go back and re-rate everything? Hence the beauty of implicit consumption-based charting and recommendations in conjunction with the explicit feedback that not only inherently knows how often you consume it, but when (disclosure - I work at MyStrands and this is what we do).

In your case, it sounds like you are looking for a view into the last X songs (chronologically listed) that passed some threshold based on a percentage of playcounts baseline established by your previous listening behavior?

Re: Favoriting Music

Trader Mike — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:17:46 -0000

I feel your pain. It's often tough to find the exact feed your want/need. last.fm / audioscrobbler should provide a feed generator that allows people to mine that gold mine of data. Almost like making an iTunes smart playlist -- a smart lastm feed...

Re: Favoriting Music

fredwilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:01:01 -0000

I've used all those feeds (via widgets) on my blog over the years but they are just 'most played this week'

If I don't listen much in one week a song I listened to once is on it

Fred

Re: Favoriting Music

Trader Mike — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:40:06 -0000

OK, it sounds like their "top tracks" feed is closer, but without your threshold criteria. -- http://www.audioscrobbler.n...