wallpaperfm

Python script for generating wallpapers from Last.fm data.

Copyright (C) 2014 Alex Phillips (Email: alecks.phillips@gmail.com)

./wallpaper.py will display the instructions.

Please try to use the local option '-l' when possible to be kind to Last.fm's servers.

GPL

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more information

Changes to original script

• Background Color (--BackgroundColor)
• Image Type (--ImageType)
• Use artist images instead of album covers (--Artist)
• Rounding of image corners (--Radius)
• Adapted for Python 3
• Updated for Last.fm API 2.0

Requirements:

• Tested on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 or 3.3
• Python Imaging Library (not available for Python 3; 'Pillow' is a drop-in replacement)
• A Last.fm account and an active internet connection
• Last.fm API account (available for free [here] 7)

Install:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Album of Examples:

[Imgur] 8 - each captioned with the options required to generate that example.

v. 16 Jul 2013

• Consolidated [Roignac] 5 and [HelgeBS] 3's changes into one script
• Integer division no longer truncates as of Python 3.0, instead returning a float. Changed all instances of '/' used for integer division to '//', the floor division operator to better preserve functionality.
• Lots of formatting to try to conform to the Python Style Guide

v. 19 Jul 2013

• Updated for Last.fm API 2.0 (user can use their own API account)
• Fixed artist option

v. 08 Feb 2014

• Fixed gradient on albums in Collage not being applied on left and right borders.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to [Koant] 1 for his [original script] 2 and to [HelgeBS] 3 for the addition of the background color and image type [options] 4, and to [Roignac] 5 for the artist image and rounded corners [options] 6.