Last.fm with Friends extends existing Last.fm features to give music stats for a group of friends. The app runs at lfmwf.neilmenon.com.
Last.fm with Friends is powered by the Last.fm API. Once you connect your Last.fm account, the app scrapes and stores your scrobbles (Last.fm lingo for music plays) in a database. Then, you can create a group and invite your friends to join the group using a join code. The app gives you and your friends cool stats and visualizations based on what everyone has listened to!
You can demo the app at lfmwf.neilmenon.com to see all of the features.
Last.fm with Friends includes many handy tools to view a group's listening habits. I've listed some them below.
Important! Most features on the app are time-adjustable! That means you can adjust the time period of which the stats are calculated to any range (e.g. what is group's top artist in the past 30 days, etc).
- Who Knows This Artist/Album/Track - see who knows a particular artist/album/track and how many scrobbles they have.
- Group Sessions - Missing scrobbles when listening with friends? Create and join listening sessions to automatically get scrobbles from another user. Already been listening with a friend in the group? Select the first track you heard and the app will get you up to speed.
- Listening Trends - Group - see all the group members' scrobbles mapped on a chart to see how it changes over time. Available on every artist, album and track.
- Listening Trends - User - see your tracks or albums for an artist mapped on a chart to see how your favorite track or album by that artist has changed over time.
- Individual & Group Charts - see which artist/album/track scores the highest in the group as well as view your individual charts.
- Group Scrobble History - just like your Last.fm profile, except it includes everyone's scrobbles. Also available on the artist/album/track level.
- Listening Activity - quickly view what everyone in the group is listening to.
- Scrobble Leaderboard - see who's leading the group in scrobbles.
- Top Scrobbles - quickly view your top tracks or albums for an artist.
- Manually Scrobble Tracks - quick and handy feature submit a scrobble to Last.fm directly from the app! For most extensive manual scrobbling, check out Open Scrobbler.
- Personal Stats Report - get a brief, unique report everyday about your music habits at the top of your home page.
- Top Genres - see the group's top genres. Coming soon!
- Group Mainstream Factor - how mainstream is the group's music? Coming soon!
Last.fm with Friends was built with the following technologies:
- Angular
- Flask / Python
- MariaDB
- uWSGI behind NGINX
The app is currently self-hosted on a CentOS server and is powered by an internal API to scrape from Last.fm and perform actions. Each scrobble is stored individually in a table to increase efficiency and ease-of-access for stats. Users are authenticated via a Last.fm-generated session token which the app stores when the user connects their Last.fm account. Scrobbles are fetched for each user periodically.
If you encounter any issues while using the app, or want to make a suggestion for a new feature, please use the Issues tab. This is a solo project by a music nerd, so feedback is most certainly welcome!
Perhaps you could lend a hand with the hosting costs for the app. Thank you!