Lastfm #scrobbles

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I’m looking to write a plugin that can grab the number of times each song in my library has been scrobbled to lastfm, total by all users. I have used the lastimport and lastgenre plugins to grab playcount info from lastfm from my personal user account and genre info. I’m thinking I might be able to do something similar here to build a playlist/music recommendation system for a very large library. Looking for some guidance from other users who might have some ideas on how to adapt those plugins. Thanks!

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Ok, I’ve been messing around with this off and on. Here is what I have come up with:

I made a smartplaylist that can sort by a flexible attribute called play_count, this works well, for example:

    relative_to: ~/Music
    playlist_dir: ~/beets/playlists
    playlists:
        - name: play_count_test.m3u
          query: 'title: play_count: play_count-'

        - name: play_count_rock.m3u
          query: 'genre: Rock title: play_count: play_count-'

Then I went about trying to write a plugin for beets to get this info from last.fm. I got this to work by struggling with how to turn it into a plugin and store the flexible attributes in the database. So far I have figured out how to get the playcounts from pylast using either MBID or artist/track:


from beets import plugins

LASTFM = pylast.LastFMNetwork(api_key=plugins.LASTFM_KEY)

track = LASTFM.get_track_by_mbid("1981c7d2-6c89-4c53-935a-890d937159b9")

count = track.get_playcount() 

count

3057535