Discography Report 2.1 - Updated 17/02/2011

[juglar103]

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

[trixmoto]

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.

[trixmoto]

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!

[trixmoto]

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

[robinsiebler]

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

[trixmoto]

Ok, I'll have to investigate.

[trixmoto]

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

[juglar103]

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

[Mizery_Made]

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...

[trixmoto]

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.