Tag: lastfm

  • Let Slack tell you what songs are currently playing in the office

    At Earth People, there’s always music in the air (and the birds sing a pretty song). Most of the stuff we play is fairly unknown to most of us, and in many cases only played once, ever. To get rid of all the “Hey what’s this song”-chatter or Slack, I made a litte script which we…

  • SXSW lineup helper

    We’re going to Austin again in March, for SXSW. It’s beyond great when it comes to live music. And tacos. But their official schedule is impossible to use due to the shear amount of gigs. Two years ago we created a little tool for ourselves and our friends called LASTSX.WS which mashed the lineup with…

  • Line-out scrobbler – when DJ’ing

    Line-out scrobbler – when DJ’ing

    When DJ’ing at Debaser Slussen yesterday, we decided to hook up the Line out scrobbler to the DJ mixer. I knew that Echonest wouldn’t be able to resolve all weird stuff we play, but was hoping for at least 70% success rate. Unfortunately we had a resolve rate of about 20%, which make our little…

  • Line-out scrobbler

    for years i’ve been trying to hijack music recognition services like shahzam to be able to recognize music. i’ve finally got this working thanks to the fine guys at echonest, who kindly provide a proper api for this. my proof of concept is running on a spare macbook. here’s how it works on the mac…