Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Enchancement Idea ccn ratings

["Rory McCann" <ebelular gmail com>]

On 09/11/06, James Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> It probably wouldn't be too hard to use it for creating a play order,
> particularly if someone else (e.g. Listen) have done the hard work of
> figuring out how best to map what AS gives us into track selection.

Last.fm/AS give either CSV file or XML file (examples:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/Metallica/similar.txt,
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/Metallica/similar.xml) with
the data. Those files list how similar each artist is to the main one.
So all you'd have to do is filter out artists that the user doesn't
have, then select the top tracks for each artist (eg:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/Metallica/toptracks.xml),
filtering out missing tracks. You now have a list of similar tracks
the user has in rough order of populaity.

Rory