Finally after quite some time I finished work on the “Last.fm Badges” website and it’s back online.
The badges were unfortunately deleted in March. This means everybody who already had a badge has to create a new one at http://lastfm.freedig.org.
At the moment badges are limited to a maximum of 12000.
I just updated the code for my website lastfm.freedig.org. From now on users will be able to create up to 30000 badges which is a huge improvement over the old limit with 6000 badges.
This is possible thanks to qssl, a last.fm user, who offered to use some of his webspace for the badges.
There is probably one disadvantage. The images will load a little slower than they used to. At the moment it also seems as if the badges don’t show up all the time. I will see what I can do about those problems.
I wrote a new greasemonky script for Last.fm which is useful for people who use the discussion forums in their groups a lot. My script displays the reply tracker you usually find at http://www.last.fm/user/*username*/replytracker on your profile page.
After you have installed the script you don’t need to configure anything, but you can change the appearance of the reply tracker. Just click “Settings” next to “Reply Tracker” and several options appear.
After you have installed the script you will see three textfields in the right column. Fill in your username, the highest number of rows that should be displayed and the seconds the reply tracker waits before reloading.
If you want to remove a thread from the reply tracker at all you can “spam” a thread. Simply hover over an entry, click on the little button which appears and the thread will be gone.
If you want a thread to be displayed again just click “Settings” and set “Show spammed threads” to yes. After you have clicked “Save Options” all threads you spammed will be displayed and you can unspam a thread by clicking on the little green button which appears when you hover a thread.
After receiving more and more questions why lastfm.freedig.org doesn’t work, I will explain what this “This service is currently disabled.” message is all about.
Also read Update for lastfm.freedig.org.
I have my website(s) stored on a shared server with 1GB space. At the moment the badges use about 600MB of this space. As I also have other stuff saved on this server I had to limit the number of badge-registrations to 6250 6000 30000.
If the page says “This service is currently disabled. Please check back later.” that means that currently there are more than 6250 6000 30000 badges.
Badges that haven’t been used for 2 months are deleted every hour. Once the number of badges drops below 6250 6000 30000 you will be able to create new badges.
On my search for a way to submit songs I listen to at pandora.com to my Last.fm – Account I came across two Firefox extensions.
The first one is Harmoy (1.0). It has been a nominee for the Extend Firefox 3 contest and not only supports pandora.com but virtually every player that is supported by FoxyTunes. In addition it provides information about currently playing songs.
The other one is LastFM Firefox Extension. This extension focuses on song submission from your Pandora radio. Optional messages notify you when Pandora plays a new song and when it is submitted to Last.fm.
Just a few minutes ago I finished my first userscript for Greasemonkey that might be useful for other people too. In case you don’t know what Greasemonkey is, visit the website if you don’t want to miss a great extension for Mozilla Firefox.
This userscript changes the appearance of a last.fm profile page. It replaces the player on the right with the user information in the middle. At least for me this seems to be a better use of space since I don’t use the player anyway.
Pandora dürfte mittlerweile vielen Leuten bekannt sein. Diese Flash-Applikation sucht anhand eines Band – oder Songnamen weitere Musikstücke mit ähnlichem Stil. Auf diese Weise können Sie viele neue Bands kennen lernen.
Das Programm Pandora’s Jar kann den Pandora Stream aufzeichnen und als MP3 inklusive der Tags und dem Albumcover speichern.