Tag: Last.fm

Replied to a tweet by @Chronotope (Twitter)
I’m guessing it may have been because I took your recommendation?

Thanks, by the way!

Read Let’s PESOS Passive Posts with Trakt and Last.FM by Charlotte AllenCharlotte Allen (charlotteallen.info)
So, I’ve been on a kick gluing together my site with other services using IFTTT to PESOS. Because if I can get away with it, the less code I have to maintain, the better. Let’s do more. I now have my passive “watch” and “listen” posts syncing to my site using Trakt and Last.FM, but I had...
Some additional great examples of how to do PESOS using Micropub with IFTTT/Zapier. 
Replied to Machine-tagging Huffduffer some more by Jeremy KeithJeremy Keith (adactio.com)
After I wrote about the hoops I had to jump through to get Amazon’s API to output JSON (via XSLT), Tom detailed a way of avoiding JSON by using XML-RPC. That’s very kind of him but the truth is that: I like dealing with JSON and the XSL transformation is done by Amazon, not me; that wouldn’t b...

So when I wanted to find a Last.fm user’s profile picture—having figured out through Google’s Social Graph API when someone on Huffduffer has a Last.fm account—it made far more sense for me to use hKit to parse the microformatted public URL than to use the API method. ❧

So the secret to having one’s image appear in their Huffduffer account is to add a rel=”me” to one’s home page? What triggers the reparsing? I’m not seeing it pop up…
— Annotated on December 06, 2019 at 10:37PM

🎵 Steve Winwood – While You See a Chance

Listened to While You See a Chance by Steve Winwood from Arc of a Diver (Island, February 1981)
Written by Winwood and Will Jennings. It was released on his album Arc of a Diver and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1981 and number 68 on the Billboard Top 100 for 1981.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7k6ngKq1oDiHiWUGed7ZRM

🎵 Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better

Listened to Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon from The Spy Who Loved Me (Electra)
Composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager. It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It was the first Bond theme song to be titled differently from the name of the film since Dr. No, although the phrase "the spy who loved me" is included in the lyrics. The song was released as a single from the film's soundtrack album. "Nobody Does It Better" became a major worldwide hit, spending three weeks at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 but was kept out of the top spot by Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" and #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.[1] It also reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart.[2][3] The song was certified Gold by the RIAA, signifying sales of one million copies in the US.
https://open.spotify.com/track/49RUdNvwSiUTC8fBh4KKoC

🎵 I’m Not in Love by 10cc

Listened to I'm Not in Love by 10cc from The Original Soundtrack, Mercury, 11 March 1975
Written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, the song is notable for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals. Released in the UK in May 1975 as the second single from the band's third album The Original Soundtrack, it became the second of the group's three number-one singles in the UK between 1973 and 1978, topping the UK singles chart for two weeks. The song was also the band's breakthrough hit worldwide, reaching number one in Ireland and Canada and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, as well as reaching the top ten in Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.

🎵 Hall & Oates – Rich Girl

Listened to Rich Girl by Hall & Oates from RCA, January 22, 1977
"Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates. It debuted on the Billboard Top 40 on Feb. 5, 1977 at number 38 and on March 26, 1977, it became their first (of six) number-one singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us.

Chris Aldrich is reading “10 Great Last.fm Apps, Hacks and Mashups”

Read 10 great Last.fm apps, hacks and mashups (The Next Web)
A look at some of the best apps, hacks and mashups available for music streaming and scrobbling service Last.fm.
Curious about alternatives Last.fm’s broken RSS feeds and what people are doing with their listening data. Some relatively interesting ideas in here, but nothing earth shattering. One or two were focused on visualization, but otherwise nothing I felt I could use.

🎵 Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams – Remastered

Listened to You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates from Voices (RCA Records, May 2, 1981)
"You Make My Dreams", sometimes referred to as "You Make My Dreams Come True", is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4o6BgsqLIBViaGVbx5rbRk