Third-party apps for Last.fm are fairly common: the skype plugin, user mashup, site badges, genre finder, facebook app… and so on.
Andrew Godwin has come up with a nifty way of visualising your Last.fm usage: LastGraph3!
LastGraph takes the raw data from your Last.fm account and works out your stats… your artist history, a simple timeline showing the number of tracks listened to over time, and then the very nice graph showing how many tracks you listened to by each artist over time. The larger, more detailed graph comes in a PDF that you could use to print a poster, should you be so inclined, to show your musical taste off to the world (in fact, now that I think of it… it’s called a poster on the site rather than just “graph”).
If you want to carry out your own statistical analysis, you can download the data in Excel, CSV or JSON format.
The only downside to all this is that the queue to get your data fetched is very long at the minute. I’m talking, massive – it took almost 24 hours for my data to be downloaded and processed. However, I don’t think you actually need to have your browser open the whole time; it’s like your username gets injected into the queue and worked on whether you’re watching the progress or not.
This is a great tool – it doesn’t do loads of stuff, but it does what it does well. And if you like making pretty pictures out of stats, it’ll keep you more than happy :) Premium accounts are available for £5/$10 per year and give the ability to hotlink to your graph, and some dynamic images for your site.
Thanks to Lifehacker for this one.
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