My Last Ones

A Python script to make an Rdio playlist from your weekly #1 tracks in your Last.fm history

Reason

I have seven years of history on my Last.fm account now, and I churn through music quite quickly. I wanted an easy way to remind myself of songs I fell in love with, even if briefly. This is the solution.

How it Works

The main function, make_playlist(), uses Last.fm's API to grab your history. Then it finds the top-ranked track from each week. It creates a playlist out of the results.

The update_playlist() function updates your Last Ones playlist starting from the most recent track stored in history.csv.

You can see an example here

To Use It

1. Download the files, which include the rdio-simple library.
2. In the same directory, create a credentials.py file with the following information:
   • RDIO_CONSUMER_KEY
   • RDIO_CONSUMER_SECRET
   • RDIO_TOKEN
   • RDIO_TOKEN_SECRET
   • LAST_ONES_PLAYLIST_KEY (add this once you've run make_playlist() once)
   • LAST_FM_KEY
   • LAST_FM_USER_NAME
3. Run the make_playlist() function once to create the playlist using your entire Last.fm history, from start to present.
4. Create a cron job to run the updater.py file on occasion. The updater file runs the update_playlist() function, which adds tracks starting from the most recent week stored in history.csv.