This script fetches last.fm user tags (not global tags) and creates playlists based on your local files.
These playlists are then added to amarok.
The script assumes your amarok playlists are under ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/playlists (change it if you are using another directory)
You can use this script by running it this way:
'python lastfm_playlists.py [last.fm user name]'
It will yield better results with your own tags, as you'll problaby have most of your tagged music.
Obtaining artists names, songs, etc, is done by parsing the html user tag page as there's not still a webservice which will give me the contents of a tag (i'm talking about user tags all the time)
Version 0.12:
Added support for amarok 1.4.2 (amarok track paths have been changed in the database to relative paths and the device mountpoint must be added to each path)
Version 0.11:
This version is a patch for avoiding encoding problems. The script now checks the retrieved names in different encodings, until finds one that does not throw an exception. This is a temporary fix so the script does not break. There must be a better way of doing this
TO-DO:
- Check some character encodings
- Retrieve amarok's configured last.fm user as default
- Support for global tags
Check my last.fm account:
http://www.last.fm/user/latengoyo/
alex.
Ratings & Comments
5 Comments
I'm about to start work on a similar script, but with some key differences. I'm planning to write the last.fm tags into the comment field for each track. This will allow the user to build smart playlists based on the presence of the tag. I haven't decided if I want to write it in python or something else yet but if it's in python I might like to use some of your code. I hope you don't mind. Thanks for the script! -mark
a problem i get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "44547-lastfm_playlists.py", line 175, in ? if __name__ == "__main__": main() File "44547-lastfm_playlists.py", line 168, in main lastfm_playlists(argv[1]) File "44547-lastfm_playlists.py", line 76, in __init__ numItems=self.addToPlaylist(fh,item.prop("href")) File "44547-lastfm_playlists.py", line 105, in addToPlaylist rs=os.popen(("dcop amarok collection query \""+sql+"\"").encode('iso8859_15')) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/iso8859_15.py", line 18, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u015e' in position 143: character maps to here is my piano tag: 1 Yann Tiersen – Amélie - La Valse D'Amélie (Ve Aug 23 2006 21:28 2 Yann Tiersen – A Dispute Aug 23 2006 21:25 3 Yann Tiersen – Comptine D`un Autre Été - L`ap Aug 23 2006 20:50 4 Yann Tiersen – Sur le fil Aug 23 2006 20:43 5 Ben Folds Five – Air Aug 20 2006 16:09 6 Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini Aug 20 2006 16:06 7 Paul Weller – You do Something to Me Aug 20 2006 15:39 8 Şebnem Ferah – Hoşçakal Aug 20 2006 15:30 9 Franz Ferdinand – Fade Together Aug 14 2006 22:16 10 Beethowen – moonlight sonata Aug 14 2006 22:15 11 Yann Tiersen – Musiques de films - Amélie Pou Aug 13 2006 16:30 12 Yann Tiersen – Le Moulin Aug 13 2006 16:05 13 Evanescence – You Aug 13 2006 13:52 14 Evanescence – Breathe No More Aug 13 2006 13:52 15 The Gathering – Broken Glass (Piano version) Aug 12 2006 16:49 16 Evanescence – Hello
the problem is with the turkish charcter in the eight track. For now is there way not to parse that one and go on adding the next tracks. Brcause now after the error the tracks on the way are not handled. Thanks for sharing this plugin
I've got issues with certain character encodings... if you send me your last.fm user name, i can test the script with your tags for debbuging this. you can also try changing 'iso8859_15' to the charset you are using. Probably 'cp1026'... see http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html#standard-encodings also i'll to put a try..catch block so the script don't stops with this kind of problems.
changing coding worked. thanks:)