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Last.fm + Jambase.com = Getting Somewhere

There are some websites I regulary hit for concert information, pollstar and jambase are the more common national ones. I finally set up a profile on jambase because I was tired of always typing in “San Francisco” as my location…

Editing my profile I found the option to enter a comma separated list of my favorite bands… DING! Where do I get a list of my favorite bands… I thinks the 27,993 tracks I’ve submitted to last.fm would suffice to give me a good sampling of artists that I like or care about.

On last.fm there’s a page where it show me my top 493 artists… I’m not sure where that number comes from… I saved the html and with some UNIX command line drudgery made myself a comma separated list of my favorite artists. Sweet.

Now whenever I go to jambase I’m automatically by a rather large list of bands that I like who playing in my area very soon. I love it.

If I could get bands that last.fm reccomends to me in there that would be that would take the cake.

To do items:
* see if last.fm has an api to get this data for a user, if so, ask them to incorporate the funtionality, allowing users to do a one-time or periodic download of their artists into the jambase profile
* if they don’t do it, write a little utility to help people do it and put it on the web somewhere. but then noone would find it or use it, just like massrmvwait.com. I need to get better at promoting.

0. get a unix shell
1. Go to to the last.fm page that has your Overall Top Artists
2. Save it as html
3. run

cat topArtistsLastFm.html | grep -A 1 chartlabel | grep -v chartlabel | grep title | sed ‘s/.*>\(.*\)<\/a.*/\1,/’ | tr ‘\n’ ‘@’ | sed ‘s/@//g’ | sed ‘/@amp;/&/g’ | sed ‘s/”/'/g’

4. upload that list to jambase

Posted by volker at August 24, 2006 05:21 PM