Sync stats with last.fm ?

[Mehdi Abaakouk]

Hello,

I don't know if it is technically feasible, but I realized that it was a shame, as a user point of view, to manage two different stats (esentially song played counters) sources when you use last.fm. I explain : you may lose your local database, because of a bug, hardware crash, etc... Moreover you may use an another music player on an another box, while you still submit songs on last.fm with it. Thus the local stats in listen are finally almost useless, as they are not really up-to-date, and don't really reflect your tastes.

I guess it would be not possible to always rely on the last.fm stats (what to do when you are disconnected, etc...?) So the idea would be to allow to sync the local stats with your last.fm stats, periodically or when the user requests it (may be prefereable as it should be a heavy task). However I'm not sure if last.fm allows to implement that. We can get almost all informations with the "overall tracks chart" page (ex : http://www.last.fm/user/vlaaad/charts/?charttype=overall&subtype=track ) but it seems that only the first 500 entries are shown. There might be a way but I didn't find it. If it doesn't exists, the last.fm admins might want to add it ?

Well, here is the overall idea. Doing this way, we will never be afraid to lose our stats (one year ago, I lost all my stats (almost 2 years !!) because of a bug with an another music player :(( ), and who knows, you might encourage people to switch to listen as they could keep their previous stats ! ;-)

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #707
Originally reported by: vlaaad

[Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht)]

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Originally reported by: add

[Cyron (ruy1802)]

I wrote a script in python which fetches all stats of a given profilname to a MySQL libary which is in the amarok-design. It should be quite easy to change the script to work in listen as well.

I gonna provide the script soon.