A quick script I just put together for Last.FM event pages. In the photos section, under the machine tag instructions, this script will add a link to go straight to your Flickr archive for the day of the event.
The link URL contains ‘me’ instead of your Flickr username, but Flickr will automatically redirect you if you’re logged in! Even if your not it will take you to the login page and then automatically still take you to the right page.
Assuming you have several photos from that day, you’ll see a link to ‘Edit this page as a batch’ in Organizr, which will allow you to quickly and easily add the machine tag for the event.
Install now from UserScripts.org
The Guardian newspaper recently published a list of ‘1000 songs everyone must hear’. Imagine my delight when I discovered that they’d also published the raw data as part of their new Data Store service. Naturally my first thought was some kind of Last.FM mashup.
I thought it would be great if you could match up the list with your Last.FM listening history to find out exactly how many of the songs in the list you had and had not listened to. Unfortunately I couldn’t quite get the API to bend that way. Maybe I’ll find a way eventually.
So I settled for just pulling in listener stats for each song (so that you can sort and see what is the most listened to song etc.). And as an extra touch, hooking up to LyricWiki to get the song lyrics, which for the most part, are available.
http://1000songs.ebotunes.com
One thing to keep in mind is that Last.FM users only cover a particular demographic (mostly young, tech-savvy people), so don’t be offended if the results are skewed in that direction!
Let me know what you think, and leave any suggestions and feedback on the UserVoice page.
Thanks to PHP Last.FM API and the LyricWiki API.
1000 songs on ProgrammableWeb
This is an app i’ve been wanting to build for a while now, but was held back for a couple of reasons. The usual lack of time, but also some shortcomings in the Last.FM API
The main purpose off the application is to allow people who use Last.FM and Flickr to easily tag their photos with the relevant machine tags. Almost ever since Last.FM started doing event listings (I think), they’ve offered a feature allowing users to feed their own gig photos onto the Event page.
More recently, Flickr decided to complement this feature by displaying a link to Last.FM on the photo page whenever a machine tag exists. This prompted one of the Flickr devs to blog about it which, in turn, prompted me to get my finger out and finish Gig Taggr! [UPDATE: also looks like one of the Last.FM devs mentioned it too!
The main thing that had been holding it back was the lack of an API method to get a user’s past events. This was easily solved by asking for it. Thanks again to vincro and joanofarctan!
As an added bonus, Gig Taggr also lets you geotag the photos while you’re at it, based on the venue location info given by Last.FM. Cashback!
http://gigtaggr.ebotunes.com
Photos tagged using Gig Taggr
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