en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal The Last.fm journal for wsfulmer. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2012/12/26/5pf9dj_controlling_last.fm_with_applescript,_redux Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:30:05 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2012/12/26/5pf9dj_controlling_last.fm_with_applescript,_redux Back in 2008, I wrote an Applescript for controlling the Last.fm desktop client. It worked well enough, but it was always a bit of a kludge - since the Last.fm client didn't support Applescript, it worked by manipulating the application menus.

The new beta desktop client has better support for Applescript, including verbs for play, pause, next, previous, love, and ban. Here's an updated version of the script that takes advantage of that:

# rate the track 5 stars in iTunes
tell application "iTunes"
set rating of current track to 100
end tell
# love the track in last.fm
tell application "Last.fm"
love
end tell
# I use Launchbar to run this script - this hides it when it's finished
# Leave this part out if you don't use Launchbar
tell application "Launchbar"
hide
end tell

Enjoy :)

PS: Dear Last.fm - it's 2012. Markdown > BBCode. Catch up. Love, me.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2011/09/22/4p2q4o_rdio_%252B_applescript_=_win Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:14:55 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2011/09/22/4p2q4o_rdio_%252B_applescript_=_win Here's some Applescript to get a "currently listening" status from Rdio on OS X - I'm using it as a TextExpander macro, so now when I want to share what I'm listening to, I can just type "/rdio" instead of click-click-clicking through the Rdio UI to get to the sharing links. Enjoy!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2010/04/10/3k0ci4_eclecticity_accomplished! Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:22:11 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2010/04/10/3k0ci4_eclecticity_accomplished! Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php

My super-eclectic score is currently

735/1000

The most similar artists for my profile are The New Pornographers (8), Spoon (7), Local Natives (6), The Decemberists (6), Wolf Parade (6), Sunset Rubdown (5), The National (4), Fleet Foxes (4), Rilo Kiley (4), Mates of State (4)

(my original test)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/06/24/21eclc_all_in_the_family... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:40:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/06/24/21eclc_all_in_the_family... Yesterday I fed my monthly music addiction with a new round of stuff from eMusic. After I downloaded everything, I realized that everything I got this month came from musical families:

• Sorrythankyou byUnbelievable Truth - this band is fronted by Andy Yorke, the younger brother of Radiohead's Thom Yorke. You can hear the family resemblence in the vocals, but the comparison stops there. This has a much more mainstream feel to it than anything I've ever heard from Radiohead. Whether that's good or bad is a matter of personal taste.. I think it's okay, but not spectacular.
• Fables by Immaculate Machine - Immaculate Machine's lead singer Kathryn Calder is the niece of New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman. She also sings in New Pornographers, where she is knows as "not Neko Case, but the other one". (Seriously, it must suck to not be Neko Case.. I really don't like country music, alt or otherwise, but Neko weakens my resolve. What a voice!) So far, I'm indifferent to this album, but I think it will grow on me.
• EP by The Fiery Furnaces - Still my current favorite band ever, The Fiery Furnaces are a brother-and-sister act. EP has less of a learning curve than their other albums, so if you're thinking about trying them out, this might be a good place to start. Of course, this means that the songs on this album lack the epic storylines prevalent in their other work, but it's still great stuff.
• Sunny Border Blue by Kristin Hersh - Kristin Hersh comes from Throwing Muses, which she started way back in the 80s with her step-sister... yes, my family theme is getting pretty thin here. Excellent music as usual here - I've never been disappointed by any of her work.

]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/03/29/2z6k_new_music_for_march_2008 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:46:52 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/03/29/2z6k_new_music_for_march_2008 click]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/03/29/2z6j_controlling_last.fm_with_applescript Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:43:45 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/03/29/2z6j_controlling_last.fm_with_applescript (2012-12-26: There's a new version of this script for the new beta Last.fm desktop client. It's much better!)

I just wrote my first AppleScript ever :)

The problem: I found myself doing too much pointing, clicking, and thinking to do the following things:

• Rate the currently-playing track in iTunes
• Tell Last.fm that I "love" the track if I've rated it 4 or 5 stars

AppleScript to the rescue!

tell application "iTunes"
set rating of current track to 100
end tell
tell application "Last.fm" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Last.fm"
click menu item "Love" of menu "Tools" of menu bar 1
click menu item "Hide Last.fm" of menu "Last.fm" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
open location "x-launchbar:hide"

The first bit is fairly simple... iTunes stores ratings as a number 0 to 100, so rating a track as 100 means 5 stars.

The next part is a bit tricky, because the Last.fm application doesn't listen to AppleScript commands directly. Instead, we have to tell the OS to click the menus and whatnot that Last.fm owns. You can find more info about scripting "unscriptable" applications here.

Finally, that last bit is in there to tuck away the LaunchBar app that I use to run the script.

LaunchBar kicks ass... it keeps track of all of your applications, documents, music, scripts, and a bunch of other stuff, and lets you get to just about anything with a couple of keystrokes. It looks things up by abbreviations.. so, I've saved that script as 'Rate 5 Stars', so I can run it by hitting command-Space (which brings up LaunchBar) then R-5 ("Rate 5").

That's MUCH faster tracking down windows and clicking menus and stars... so, yay me :)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/02/23/2z6i_genghis_blues Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:12:10 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/02/23/2z6i_genghis_blues Saw this movie a couple of weeks ago, and grinned the whole way through it. But you need to get this album to truly appreciate the music... in the film, the music is just the backdrop for the journey - on the soundtrack, of course, the music takes center stage. AMAZING stuff.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/02/23/2z6h_new_music_for_february_2008 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:05:58 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/02/23/2z6h_new_music_for_february_2008 recently scored]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/01/24/2z6g_january_2008_emusic_purchases Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:43:02 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2008/01/24/2z6g_january_2008_emusic_purchases http://weblog.xanga.com/sean/638927318/do-you-even-care-that-its-emusic-time-again.html]]> http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2007/12/02/2z6f_non-music_pollution Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:43:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/wsfulmer/journal/2007/12/02/2z6f_non-music_pollution Last.fm should really find a way to filter out podcasts and audiobooks from the stuff people scrobble. Start a new service or something to keep that stuff out of the 'social music revolution'.]]>