- My Last.fm Space..
Last updated: 05/08/08- 05/08/08: Experimental shoutbox..
- 04/08/08: Fixed some HTML errors. Updated spellings (thanks mum. :)
- 31/07/08: Worked out how to put HTML inside nodes!
- 30/07/08: new section for dead projects or ones in need of maintenance
- 29/07/08: site has got a slight facelift: view without JS is moved to the top. Added this section.
Projects- Genre Finder
- Originally written in Visual Basic 6.0 for an A level computing coursework. Has being re-written to work in VB.NET, is being again re-written to not work in Gambas. Finds what 'percentage' of any genre (or tag..) any one given user is. To install copy the .exe to a suitable directory and run it. Tested on Windows XP/Vista; requires .NET Framework 2.0.
- Download current version
- Whats new in 0.2.3alpha?
- Info
- 2nd alpha towards a stable 0.3 "you can't break this even if you try" release!
- Built: 30/07/08
- Size: 125kb
- Added
Can now pick how many artists to show in results- previously would only show the top 10, now goes up to 50
- Changed
- the small 'info bar' at the bottom shows more relavent information
- Renamed current file to just 'GenrePercentage.exe'
- Fixed
- First 2 artists being heighlighted in results when moused over
- I intend for this to happen on all the artists soon though
- 'Last.fm's Overall top tags' option in the 'Generate More' tab of the Results window now gives some results without crashing. Still needs tuning though
- scale slider background doesn't look off
- Past Versions (change log)
- 0.2.2alpha
- Info
- 1st alpha towards a stable 0.3 release. Updated for the new Last.fm API: all other versions will no longer work!
- Built: 27/07/08
- Size: 125kb
- Added
- Use other artist charts (1/3/12 monthly)
- Editable blacklist
- ignores non-genre tags to give better results
- tooltips for some of the less obvious options (e.g. 'wildcard') to explain what they do..
- couldn't think of a good way of doing this neatly AND obviously to the user, so i've put little question marks next to the options...
- Scale option
- Scale the BB/HTML code outputs AND the one dissplayed
- this leads to some rather ruff resizing of the results form so that you can see the results...
- option to use links in BB/HTML outputs
- Changed
- Now compiled in VB 2008 Express Edition
- This shouldn't raise the .NET Framework requirements though
- More logical cacheing structure
- allows for different months
- and only one artist folder
- New options 'tab' for sorting data
- which removes the clutter as I really can't see many people using this
- User can no longer resize options panel. What was I thinking. :-)
- Results options and main options merged into the same window, but on different tabs.
- Fixed
- Updated to new Last.fm API
- Aritsts with "&" characters working
- Percentage bar loads up better
- 'Defaults' button in options should work better
- loop that kept causing timeouts with last.fm
- NOTE: these will still happen if the last.fm servers are in a lot of pain. ;)
- Lots of other silly bugs
- 0.1.2
- Added
- Some options for BB/HTML output
- No. Gaps between each artist
- Option to link to each artist's Last.fm page
- Now shows artists as yellow that are between black and orange
- Changed
- Wildcard set to ON by default - should get better results ;)
- Fixed
- Fixed bug that stopped you from reading more than 10 artists
- 0.1.1
- Info
- Built: 20/05/2007
- Size:80kb
- Added
- Fixed
- Output not dissplaying correctly if ran twice
- On 'no user/http' error, program does not crash then exit
- Progress bar spacing - can't go above 100%
- 0.1.0
- Info
- First 'public' release
- Built: 18/05/2007
- Size:76kb
- Added
- 'cloud' of top 10 artists, hight and colour corisponding to the relavence of the genre
- Delete artist/users from cache
- Pressing the enter button will now run the program!
- Progress bar
- Changed
- Re-written in VB.NET
- Method of storing artist data makes more sence - not unique to each user
- Fixed
- Now works with ALL special chracters
- Can now dellete cached data without crashing
- 0.0.3
- Info
- Coursework was based on this realease
- Size:68kb
- Added
- 'Percentage bar' is intrigated with text
- 0.0.2
Screenshots- Results page
FAQ?- Some lovely quotes from a couple of questions I got. I maybe QUOTIN OUT OF CONTEXT. Maybe.
- TAG CLOUD?!?
- To me, artists can't be classified as Seen Live or Albums I Own, and neither can you. My program allows you to filter out non-genre tags so that you are left with just the genres. Still, if you want to find out how 'crap' you are the program will still except it. :-)
- GIMMIE THE SOURCE!
- SAYS I NEED .NET?!?
- Yes you do (anything above 2.0 should do), I'd like to get rid of that as well. :-(
TODOs- For next version
- Done
- Added
- Changed
- default number for No of artists shown on the results page increased to 25
- Fixed
- Not Done
- Some of the new options wont show in the results untill you run the program again
- this could be fixed, but in the mean time i'll just use some way of warning the user..
- Clean up about section
- Clean up old (OLD) code
- Use county names instead of user names
- re-intrigate percentage bar with text (I liked it better like that)
- Automatic version numbering
- Put some screenshots up on the site
- For some other version
- Aesthetics
- allow user to pick the colours of output (can't find an easy way to do this though)
- Check for updates button
- New tab to results: comman genres
- Show what percentage you are with comman tags such as 'rock','pop' and so on
- Artist play count should play a part - e.g. your top artist should add more than your 10th artist
- Compare multiple users
- Get rid of .NET requirements?
- Greasemonkey Scripts
- I've got a couple of work in progresses and a few alterations I've made to other people's scripts that have broken after one of the many Last.fm site updates.
Require the Mozilla Firefox browser and Greasemonkey to be installed.
- Message Notifier
- Dissplays a large green box when you have unread messages in your inbox
- Changes
- 31/07/08: Updated to work with new site design. Fixed reported bugs
- 28/5/07 : Updated to work with small change
- Comments
- Online Status
- Red = user offline Green = Online
- Changes
- 31/07/08: updated to work with new site layout
- 21/04/07: updated to work with new site layout
- Comments
Dead/Need Updating- Last.fm Skinner
- Simple tool that could skin the Last.fm client application with new graphics for the buttons/backgrounds.
Created more as an experiment than anything else, still I like my Last.fm black and this tool helps you go the extra mile (see screen shot).
Where did it go wrong? When Last.fm hid the button files from me in version 1.5 (or there abouts); I can't find them anywhere! - I'm guessing they are imbedded in a .dll or the .exe file! - Screenshots
- Royal Blue
- 'Paint it black'
Links
My Music...