Artist Top Tracks 1.5 - Updated 18/08/2012

[bdbrown5]

This does not work in 4.0. Or these instruction are not complete. The app looks like it is working on the status bar but no values are returned to Custom 1 field. And yes I pasted the string exactly into the script.ini file and saved it.

[trixmoto]

Last.Fm is currently down, whilst the artist.getInfo webservice was working last night then artist.getTopTracks webservice was not. I haven't checked yet this morning, but it was giving 500 Internal Server Errors last night.

EDIT: I've just checked and it's working now. Try again, and if you're still not getting any results then try the debug mode to see what's going on.

[trixmoto]

It's only working intermittently, so I wouldn't bother testing again just yet... http://status.last.fm/

[trixmoto]

New version (1.4) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Added option to change the limit (default 50)
- Added mode to calculate rating based on rank

[gpzbc]

I just discovered this script and I really like it! Thank you very much for developing it. I am going to give it a lot of use.

[gpzbc]

OK. So I'm running this script. But I am now wondering if it can do what I would like to do with the results? Which is create a playlist of the top 15- 20 ranked songs by each artist which would then act as an input the to Radio DJ script I use. So would I need to create a Magic Node somehow? If so, anyone have any ideas on how the sql would go? I am not a SQL programmer at all.

Thanks,
Jeff

I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like you could accomplish this with an auto-playlist.

EDIT: I just re-read your post. I don't use a Radio DJ script, but I really like you idea. So here is how I set it up for my library. I set the Artist Top Tracks script to write to the Custom 3 field, which I labeled as "LastFM Rank." Then I told it to make an AutoPlaylist out of the artists top 3 ranked tracks. Here are my settings for the AutoPlaylist that I created.



Thanks for the idea, and I hope that helps you set it up.
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[gpzbc]

I have been playing with this script and have one small request. Any chance of getting a shortcut button for the toolbar?

[trixmoto]

Thank you. I've added it to my list.

[trixmoto]

New version (1.5) is now available to download from my website. I have added an option to show a toolbar button to trigger the script.

[gpzbc]

Thanks!

[bmd85]

I keep getting the message "Invalid field name was specified" when I use Custom 1?

[trixmoto]

You have to use field names as they are specified on the wiki. Try Custom1 without the space.