fuzmeister: Listening Statistics

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Last.fm is a great tool for tracking listening statistics, but, often times, longer albums will naturally carry more weight for a user statistics often skewing statistically what a listener's actual favorite releases by a given artist might be. The concept of "album listens" or "actual favorites" is an attempt to rectify last.fm statistics and actually attempt to break down what a user's favorites might be (not simply what has been played the most).

The concept goes as such:
Overall Listens from Album / Tracks on Album = "Album Listens"

An example below shows two Pink Floyd albums - each has a very different number of tracks (one being a double album and the other having a mere five tracks). While "The Wall" has had significantly more listens due to the sheer scope of the album, "Wish You Were Here" checks out as being the album that was listened to more frequently!


Wish You Were Here
161 / 5 = 32.2

The Wall
547 / 26 = 21.04


I'd like to actually use the last.fm webservice and build a front end that does a comparison of overall plays vs. actual favorites.

Mood: Fatigued
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Tags (beta): music, development, webservices, last.fm

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fuzmeister: Latest Code Frenzy

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For years, I used a specific forum signature generator. The site that provided the service recently disappeared from the internet. Being the somewhat motivated programmer that I am, I simply decided to write a clone from scratch.

If you're a user of last.fm, you can pop in your info here and take it for a test drive. There's no error handling yet, so don't expect it to be unbreakable.

This is the second time I used the last.fm API (the first was for the vent module). It's pretty fun to mess with and pretty easy.

Code on.

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Tags (beta): programming, nerdery, last.fm, php

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fuzmeister: The New Vent Last.FM Module!

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I know there aren't many other user of the social music site Last.fm on Vent, but maybe the updated module that Brandon and I worked on today can convince you to get on the grid.

Not only can you see what your favorite Vent users have been rocking out to, but you now get a nifty little album art icon with a link to the album on last.fm (where many albums are fully streamable on-demand).

Anyway, thanks goes out to Brandon for all his help and his keen ability to deal with my PHP n00bness.

Try it out, y'all.

Mood: Elated
Music: The Beatles - You Won't See Me
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Tags (beta): vent, last.fm

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