Recently active topics in Songbird tagged with lastfm

I would like to keep my stars, play counts and tags forever. It would be good if we had a mix of last.fm and xmarks to store our own info on each music.
I have a player on my computer at work, another at my media PC and my eveything PC. I move my files between them using either USB drives or mp3 player.
It is always a mess, I mean I don't do messes but play counts and star ratings are different everywhere.
I had similar problem with bookmarks for my Firefox until I found xmarks. It was great and saved me a lot of time.
So I think we could have something that falls between last.fm and xmarks for music libraries.
The itunes sync does part of the job, it would have to consider only the current local files.

I think that everyone has some curiosity about what they listen to. We get a little satisfaction from looking at the play counts of our songs, and I'm sure that many people have, like me, made a smart playlist to see what their top 25 or so most played tracks are. Last.fm takes listening history a step further by analyzing your play counts and giving you more information about them than a smart playlist can, such as what artists you listen to most, or what you listened to most over a particular period of time.

Last.fm is great, but I think it would also be really beneficial to have a better way to view listening history within Songbird. There are some downsides to last.fm: it has a busy web interface, ads, and isn't as flexible as it could be. For example, you can see what songs and artists you listen to most, but it is not easy to see what your top played albums or tags are. You can see playback history for specific weeks, but not for specific days, months, or years. It keeps track of play counts, but not how much time you've spent listening, which would be more useful for artists in your library who tend to have really long songs. It also has no way of distinguishing where your play counts came from, such as from the library, a portable device, or a web stream.

I think there should be a "Listening History" option in the main sidebar of Songbird so you can discover more information about your listening patterns, and in a way that feels more integrated with Songbird than last.fm.



I went through a number of different mockups trying to make a simple but informative interface for a listening history page, and this was the best I could come up with. The page could default to the listening history of the current month or day, but you could quickly set a different period of time in the top left. You can see the basic stats of that period of time under the header, and then a bar graph distribution to easily visualize how you listened to music over that period of time. In this mockup, there is a daily distribution graph because it is over the course of a month.

To get some specifics about a smaller part of that time period, you could mouse over any of the bars and, as seen in the mockup, it could give you a summary of that piece of time in a tool tip. If you were still curious about it, you could click the bar to zoom into that smaller period time and get a closer look. For example, you could be looking at your history for the month of April, 2009, and want to take a closer look at what you listened to on April 21, 2009, so you could click on that day in the bar graph quickly instead of having to set it in the calender in the top left. The forward and back buttons in Songbird could help you navigate back to a time period you were looking at before.

Under this graph, there could be simple charts that show the top played items of different groups.



You could see top artists, top albums, and top songs. I also think it would be extremely useful to show the user's top played tags if a multiple tagging system is eventually implemented, but genre would also suffice. It could just give you an idea of the sort of moods you were in by seeing what kind of tags you played most during a period of time.

There have been a few topics about listening history in Songbird:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

For this to be possible, Songbird might have to store some additional information with play counts, such as when each one occurred, and possibly where it came from, such as a portable media device, the library, or a stream. However, I didn't add any way in the mockups to view this distinction. Hopefully these mockups and ideas can help someone out if they eventually attempt to code a history page for Songbird. This is also the last item on the list of ideas I had to make mockups and topics about. Hopefully my creative Songbird juices have not run out for good :P.

Hi, is there a way of getting Songbird to scrobble the play of my ipod to last.fm - through an add-on or something like that?
Say yes and you got a new user...

The tag feature is pretty cool, but why limit it to just songs? I was thinking at the top of the tag popup it says "Artist | Album | Song" and you can click which one you would like to tag. When you think about it, it's incomplete as it is now. This would also make tagging much faster (and thus helping last.fm get some not crappy tags!)

This ones a stretch but I had the thought of a tag cloud instead of the list. Like how it used to be on artists page.

If anyone else has ideas about the tagging feature, please post :)

Something I'd like to see in Songbird is the ability to import metadata (and correct metadata) from Last.fm...I find it's library to be HUGE and about 90% accurate (100% if you pay attention).

I'd like to see this when you edit metadata for your songs...the window would pop up and have a button "get metadata recommendations" or something...then you could browse the top suggestions and find out which one works for you.

The coolest feature of last.fm is that they have an album art image that tells you when your song/album/artist is incorrectly tagged...and you can readily identify it...this is a huge boon to me when editing metadata.

Since last.fm is already integrated for many things...this might give you less development time in making this happen. Just an idea.

Is there a way to scrobble tracks played on shoutcast radio stations to last.fm? Some people have managed to hack the winamp last.fm plguin to get it scrobbling (http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/3408...) so maybe it can be implemented in Songbird

Aus told me that songbird will sync playcounts (I hope properly) on ipod sync, since the newer ipods keep track of play count. I remember there was a last.fm tool for scrobbling tracks when synced in iTunes. We need this for songbird too. Shouldn't be difficult at all either.

iTunes has this addon of sorts called iTunes Store file validator which has the very useful ability of "reverse scrobbling" as they call it. It basically imports the play counts from last fm back into itunes.
I think this could be a useful addon which would allow people who have lost their collection to get some of their data back. Additionally a rating system based on loved songs could be implemented to help build or rebuild a rating database.

Im sure there are many many people who have lots of info stored on last.fm and this is one great way to put that info to use.