Introduction

This Ruby script creates or overrides an iTunes playlist containing your loved last.fm tracks.

Usage

ruby loved2itunes.rb -h

Examples

ruby loved2itunes.rb -u kain82 -n MyLovedTracks -e # will import loved tracks into MyLovedTracks playlist and excludes videos.
ruby loved2itunes.rb -u kain82 # will import loved tracks into Loved playlist and includes videos.
ruby loved2itunes.rb -u kain82 -e -v # run verbosely, exclude videos

Cronjob

This script is ideal to keep in sync with your last.fm loved tracks. For example this will run hourly:

01 * * * * /path/to/loved2itunes.rb -u username

Tips

You can also use another last.fm username and try to import the loved tracks of another person/account if you have the required files in your library.

Resources

• iCoreTech Research Labs
• Original Announce
• last.fm Message

Mac OS X installation

Tested on Snow Leopard with iTunes: - 8.2.6 - 9.0

Two rubygems are required in order to run loved2itunes, nokogiri and rb-appscript.

Open a terminal and issue those commands:

sudo gem install nokogiri --no-rdoc --no-ri
sudo gem install rb-appscript --no-rdoc --no-ri

Run the script as described above.

Windows installation

This is an experimental feature.

Tested on Windows XP SP3 with iTunes: - 8.2.6

Download and install Ruby.

After the installation completes, start a command prompt, Start -> Run -> write cmd and press return.

Issue those commands to update rubygems:

gem update --system

Then install the required gem:

gem install nokogiri --no-rdoc --no-ri

Run the script as described above.