Ok, I'll take a look at why it's no longer working. Hopefully it's just a change to the API, rather than it being another one that's removed. I'll take a look at the blacklist idea and see what I can come up with as well.

Looks like Discogs is broken in this script. Just returning a list of the artists with no albums. Also curious if an option could be added to select whether the report is seeded by the Artist field of Album Artist field.

Something a little more advanced, and probably a headache and potential for a really bloated file... have you considered any kind of "Black list" or sorts for this script? Say I run a report for an artist and go over what is listed and there's some Singles listed or something that I don't need/want. I then run it a year later, I'm going to be presented with these again. However, if there was a way of "ignoring" 'albums', then when I run it a year later, only those albums which have been added since would appear for me. You know? Though I guess this wouldn't have a large affect on usability. If you run it often, then there's unlikely to be many new items added and if you run it a year later, seems like a waste of time and space to save that "Black list" for that length of time. Eh...

An idea for new script: a report of top songs you already havent?
http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=498
or by genre?
http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=285

New version (2.1) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Fixed Last.fm not handling errors correctly
- Added better artist name fuzzy matching

Ok, I'll have to investigate.

I have the latest version installed. If I run the report with 'extra info' selected, it hangs when it gets to a certain Album. The search I am performing:

Selected Artist - L.A. Guns
Maximum Number - 10

The hang occurs at number 7 - Old Skool Of Rock

New version (2.0) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Fixed Last.fm to use the latest of the webservices
- Added option to use Discogs as the source
- Added extra fuzzy matching to album names

Mizery_Made wrote:Discogs implemented and API though a while back, so it's probably the best candidate to look into.

I have to say, I'm looking into this right now and I'm not very impressed by the results I'm getting!

If you've only got a couple of songs then you could run the current report, look at the albums and the tracks within them, as you won't have any of them.

But that would help to know more songs when you only have 2 or 3 songs of an artist.

There is no webservice for getting all of the songs that an artist has done. There's one which returns the top 50 (based on popularity) so I guess a report could be built based on this to suggest if you have any of the popular ones missing, but it certainly wouldn't be a complete list. It also wouldn't help you find the more obscure tracks, which is most likely what I'd have thought the purpose of the script really was.

And create "Songs Report"? songs that you havent of the selected artists?

Haha, certainly feels like it!

Wow, you've been very busy lately, so busy the whole year has passed by already.

New version (1.7) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Removed old MM2 code to improve performance
- Fixed encoding of url to include larger character range
- Added some fuzzy matching to album name
- Added duplicate check within results list
- Fixed extra information not using album artist for query
- Added check for album featuring artist as well
- Added update server to installation package.

I have not added any other sources, I took a look and couldn't find one that was easy to implement in the way that this script works. However, I have attempted to tidy up the results, so hopefully the script returns better results now.