Last.fm killed its RSS feeds, so this developer built new ones
RSS Feeds for Last.fm
Last.fm discontinued its RSS feeds, but lfm.xiffy.nl restores them for any username. You get four feeds: recent tracks, loved tracks, top tracks, and top artists, with optional periods from 7 days to overall. The service also adds album art as enclosures and now supports recommended tracks in both RSS and Soundiixx-compatible JSON.
So you we're looking for the RSS Feed of Last.fm, and then discovered they were gone! Well, the solution is right here, all you have to do is tell me your username and i'll give you four URLs
- TFNA
As mentioned in the HN submission, Last.fm went through a redesign already over a decade ago. It stripped so much functionality that the site became useless except for merely tracking one's own listens, and there were already libre alternatives for that.
Last.fm is one of my go-to examples of how the internet has become a lonelier place. The old Last.fm was deeply linked with real life: it would show upcoming gigs in your town along with members who might be attending, and you could easily meet people in your own location who shared your own tastes in music. Where does a person find music-related socializing now?
- dewey
For those now following the Last.fm so closely, in May of this year they became independent again (https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591) after being owned by CBS for a very long time, which is very exciting and I'm glad it wasn't just shut down by CBS.
- cobertos
Self-hosted Koito[0] and glad I left Last.fm.
Not even a good first-party export, gotta use some hacked together third-party one to get your data out.
- winrid
> But I also wept. How is it possible that two almost identical endpoints have the key names differ on several spots or complete absent.
average legacy PHP backend :)
- Baljhin
> "...Tell me your username and i'll give you (six) URLs..."
> (period can be: 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month or overall)
> Recent tracks
> Loved tracks
> Top tracks
> Top Artists
> Recommended tracks
> Recommended tracks in JSON format