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Text — We Made it to 1.0!

I made a nice improvement that I feel warrants a 1.0 release. That improvement is simply a hash that stores genres for the life of the process so that an additional query to last.fm is not needed. I fixed a bug where “q” wasn’t cleanly aborting the process. Also, I did a little spring cleaning with the code… moved everything out of a main file and into separate files for better organization.

I’m happy to say that build.last.fm accepted my application! So you can now find the tagger on build.last.fm.

If anyone out there would like a feature added, just let me know and I’ll see about implementing it.

Get 1.0 now!

Text — Last.fm Tagger 0.9

I’ve made a few improvements to the Last.fm Tagger. Namely, the ability to cleanly abort the tagging process. Other features include displaying a count of tracks selected in iTunes, as well as the number of unique artists in that selection.

As always, you’ll need the wonderfully awesome RubyOSA gem installed.

Download it now.

Text — Last.fm Tagger for RubyOSA Update 3

I’ve once again improved my little Last.fm script for use with RubyOSA. It needed updating badly. There were quite a few things bugging me.

What’s new:

• Nice console messages telling you what’s happening.
• Support for skipping over identical genre’s.
• Ability to continue or abort tagging process. So if you don’t like that tag, type ‘n’.
• Use -q to subdue tagging confirmations.
• Full UTF-8 support, as well as proper URL escaping.

Download it now! And have somewhat useful genre’s to choose from.

I will tackle cleaning it up later. Add me to your RSS reader if you want script updates.

Remember, you can get RubyOSA with the Last.fm Tagger here.

Text — eMusic.fm Greasemonkey Script

I finished a v0.1 of my eMusic.fm Greasemonkey script. What it does is pretty simple. On an album page, it will pull the 10 most popular tags from last.fm and inject them into the page below the description.

I found myself looking at last.fm for a particular artist to see what the community has labeled it as. This provides a more insightful look into artists you may not be aware of.

Download my eMusic.fm greasemonkey script

Text — New Last.fm Tagger for RubyOSA

Laurent Sansonetti was generous enough to ask me if I wanted to contribute my little Last.fm script to the RubyOSA samples directory. And of course, I was more than willing to do that. He actually updated the script to make it even better! Now, you simply select which track in iTunes you want to tag, and run the RubyOSA script. The script will then query Last.fm for the most popular tag, and set the genre to whatever the tag on Last.fm is.

Here’s the updated code:

Remember, you can get RubyOSA with the Last.fm Tagger here.

Thanks to Laurent for making an awesome library. It makes playing with Ruby even more fun!

Text — Drought (from a Last.fm post)

My post-time has expired. Hence, I am spamming it with some shit I posted on the Pensacola Music Scene’s Last.fm forum. This is in context of the status of our “scene” here in Pensacola. Ugh, I feel so “scene” for saying that.

it feels dead to me, however that may be because i never go out. i’m usually at work, or at home. i’ve spent some time looking for some worthy local acts, however the results were not very eclectic. it seems there’s only a choice between metal/hardcore/formaldehyde and … southern rock.

i’ve pigeon-holed my tastes to extreme obscureness, leaving me to feel unsatisfied with the local acts. Tallahassee seems to be the nearest place to find any good venues.

please note: i am not complaining, just merely stating my thoughts in hopes to stir up something.

Text — Get Genre's from Last.fm and Tag with Last.fm Using RubyOSA

I’ve always hated genre’s. They always place a constriction on the acceptance of an artist. However, they do come in handy in certain situations. For instance, I like to tag all my ambient stuff so that I may quickly choose an artist to fall asleep to. Now, I’m on a tagging rampage, however there are some artists where I have no idea how to “genrealize” it. Ah, but the ever-growing community on Last.fm tags artists! Most of the time, the genre is agreeable upon a majority and therefore acceptable to me. I was growing sick of searching Last.fm for each artist, then choosing the most popular tag and tagging it in iTunes. If it weren’t for RubyOSA, I could not have accomplished what I wanted to do.

This is a perfect project for me that I hope to evolve into a more interactive process. Currently, the script is very basic in that you run it, it grabs the tag feed from Last.fm and sets the genre of the artist that you’re listening to. Check it out:

In the future, I would like to provide a list of the top 10 tags in which you choose which to tag this song with and ultimately, I’d like to tag the whole artist with the genre. Maybe I could also provide album tagging, since some artists deviate in style across multiple albums.

Text — You Can See Me Listening

Hey. Look at the slick new chart to the left. Thanks Last.fm!

I’m not happy with the audioscrobbler sidebar plugin that comes with Typo. This is a lot nicer, but it isn’t very interactive. It’s just a static image. I’m not complaining!

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend getting an account at Last.fm. It gives you a detailed analysis of what you listen to. Charts, graphs, recommendations, the whole nine…all transparently! Be wary though, some recommendations are waaaay off. That’s to be expected, until quantum computing and holographic memory, of course.

EDIT: The new recommendations system, codenamed Pony is proving to be quite resourceful and more accurate. They are really starting to add in lots of cool new features.