RSS Feeds for Last.fm

TFNA•about 1 hour ago

As mentioned in the HN submission, Last.fm went through a redesign already over a decade ago. It stripped so much functionality that the site became useless except for merely tracking one's own listens, and there were already libre alternatives for that.

Last.fm is one of my go-to examples of how the internet has become a lonelier place. The old Last.fm was deeply linked with real life: it would show upcoming gigs in your town along with members who might be attending, and you could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now?

meindnoch•less than a minute ago

This.

My best friend cold-messaged me on last.fm 18 years ago: "wanna exchange music? add me on MSN: ..."

Mashimo•about 1 hour ago

Is it not possible to discover new artist you might like based on your taste?

happymellon•about 1 hour ago

I don't see how this relates to anything the parent comment talked about.

leokennis•11 minutes ago

Besides the useful product, also a very lovely site.

Page size around 85 KB, bullshit around 0 BS, loaded in 140 ms on my end.

cobertos•about 2 hours ago

Self-hosted Koito[0] and glad I left Last.fm.

Not even a good first-party export, gotta use some hacked together third-party one to get your data out.

[0]: https://github.com/gabehf/koito

sha-3•about 1 hour ago

ListenBrainz[0] is a decent alternative if you don't want to self-host. You can import your Last.fm scrobbles there pretty easily.

[0]: https://listenbrainz.org/

chneu•42 minutes ago

A lot of people run both koito and listenbrainz

winrid•about 3 hours ago

> But I also wept. How is it possible that two almost identical endpoints have the key names differ on several spots or complete absent.

average legacy PHP backend :)

msephton•about 3 hours ago

Cool!

I'm wondering why my recommended tracks are different between the two feed formats? Same uid as here.

Also, my JSON feed doesn't seem to validate and is not served with the proper MIME type.

Baljhin•about 5 hours ago

> "...Tell me your username and i'll give you (six) URLs..."

> (period can be: 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month or overall)

> Recent tracks

> Loved tracks

> Top tracks

> Top Artists

> Recommended tracks

> Recommended tracks in JSON format

https://github.com/xiffy/lfm

cyberjunkie•about 3 hours ago

Don't see any slop in the code. Good job!

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