[RELEASE] Last.FM Playlist Generator Script - Auto Generate Similar Music Playlists

hey , great idea. It would be nice to have something similar to this built into the party mode feature . example being, fetch similar /artists/albums/tracks/genres etc from last.fm api , based on current playing track..

From the looks of it, this is a one time playlist generator. Does anyone know if it is possible to run this in the background or daemonize it, so that it is called after each track is played?

Idea being the following .

acegutta22 Wrote:it says no result found for me

Try a different song; that happens to me even on stuff that's only moderately obscure. If I seed it with a better known song, it work's fine.

I used the Windows Mediaportal for a while and really appreciated it to hear music for hours. Mediaportals last.fm plugin automatically searched for the next three songs. If I made changes to the playlist the plug-in recognized that and changed the next music selections.

jw76 Wrote:hey , great idea. It would be nice to have something similar to this built into the party mode feature . example being, fetch similar /artists/albums/tracks/genres etc from last.fm api , based on current playing track..

From the looks of it, this is a one time playlist generator. Does anyone know if it is possible to run this in the background or daemonize it, so that it is called after each track is played?

Idea being the following .

Code:

while isplayingaudio
     get current trackname, current artistname
     fetch X number of similar tracks from last.fm api based on genre/artist/album
     append results to playlist

Yes I remember this from Mediaportal too (basically why I started on this script).
Great feature!

There is probably a way to run the script as a background process. If it is, I'll try and modify it.
If someone with greater python-fu than me wants to have a go it, the source is openly available here still:
http://code.google.com/p/lastfmplaylistgenerator/

jw76 Wrote:hey , great idea. It would be nice to have something similar to this built into the party mode feature . example being, fetch similar /artists/albums/tracks/genres etc from last.fm api , based on current playing track..

From the looks of it, this is a one time playlist generator. Does anyone know if it is possible to run this in the background or daemonize it, so that it is called after each track is played?

Idea being the following .

Code:

while isplayingaudio
     get current trackname, current artistname
     fetch X number of similar tracks from last.fm api based on genre/artist/album
     append results to playlist

+1.

Before getting hooked on XBMC i used MediaMonkey with a similar plugin to play music, its a great way to get out in the dark corners of your music library.

ErlendSB Wrote:Yes I remember this from Mediaportal too (basically why I started on this script).
Great feature!

There is probably a way to run the script as a background process. If it is, I'll try and modify it.
If someone with greater python-fu than me wants to have a go it, the source is openly available here still:
http://code.google.com/p/lastfmplaylistgenerator/

Great plugin! I have been missing this from MediaPortal since I switched over to XBMC.

I'd love for this to develop into a similar feature as MediaPortal with the option to choose the number of songs to add to the playlist on each track play and the ability to watch for style drifting (either adding songs to the playlist that are similar to the first track played or adding songs to the playlist that are similar to the currently playing track.)

I´ve started on a script like the one you mention.
http://code.google.com/p/lastfmplaylistg...Fpartymode

The script runs in the background when started and waits for a song to start playing.
When playback starts, 3 songs are added to the playlist.
It´s considered beta and probably contains a lot of bugs.

I get

It should be fixed now

Gonna try and be a Guinea Pig, I'll report back

OK, I checked out the svn and made a script.lastfm folder with the script contents in my addon folder, but I'm only getting errors. Can you put up a .zip that we can install from that should work?