Last.fm

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Last.fm
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 Upcoming...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Vital Signs

[12:41:49]  <@SketchCow>	Last.fm is going to switch codebases in the first two weeks of April
[12:41:59]  <@SketchCow>	Opinion of these folks is... it's not going to well
[12:42:23]  <@SketchCow>	Code music data likely to survive, but some user generated material may die
[12:42:33]  <@SketchCow>	From latter:
[12:42:34]  <@SketchCow>	There are 1m+ forum posts spanning nearly 11 years across global
[12:42:34]  <@SketchCow>	forums (which you can see at http://www.last.fm/forum) and group
[12:42:34]  <@SketchCow>	forums. The good news is all the forums are accessible by incrementing
[12:42:34]  <@SketchCow>	the ID at the end of http://www.last.fm/forum/<id>. They are spread
[12:42:36]  <@SketchCow>	across a mostly-continuous ID namespace.
[12:42:48]  <@SketchCow>	'm also slightly concerned about user journals (e.g.
[12:42:48]  <@SketchCow>	http://www.last.fm/user/Russ/journal), but that's more difficult as
[12:42:48]  <@SketchCow>	there's no easy way of enumerating users, short of crawling similar
[12:42:48]  <@SketchCow>	user/friends lists.
[12:42:48]  <@SketchCow>	I'd also suggest archiving blog.last.fm during this switchover as
[12:42:50]  <@SketchCow>	hilarity is likely to ensue.
[12:42:53]  <@SketchCow>	...
[12:42:55]  <@SketchCow>	That's all.
[12:43:04]  <@SketchCow>	So I think a project is worth it
[12:43:32]  <@SketchCow>	I suggest #lastchance.fm

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)
  • Artist images
  • 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, and group forums
  • Shoutboxes (comment areas) on users, groups, and musicians

Getting it Out

Listening History

Tools

There's 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

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Alternative services

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