I have written a short Python script to allow you to find the overlap between the favourite artists of two user’s on Last.fm.

For example, my Last.fm favourites compared to my friend Seb’s favourites currently produces this list.

swp1@flemensfirth:~/src/python/lastfm-intersect$ python pair.py Aimaz cybersebb
In Flames
Pantera
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Dead Kennedys
Opeth
Beastie Boys
Anathema
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
Iced Earth
Rage Against the Machine
Metallica
My Dying Bride

You can download the script here.

I am working on another script to do a similar thing for a group of people, but it needs to be programmed differently, otherwise given a large enough list of users no artists would appear in the list.

(edit: this version has been retracted see Last.fm forum post)

This is what version 1.1.1 of the Last.fm Player looks like, you can binaries from http://www.last.fm/help/player/ the source code tarball is only version 1.0.4 so if you want the source you should check it out.

svn co svn://svn.audioscrobbler.net/player/trunk

Some people on the Last.fm forums have reported problems using ALSA with the newest player. If you try using it OSS may work for you, I am currently using OSS because I experienced the same problem with ALSA.

I intend to make a new .deb package geared towards Ubuntu users with Qt not staticly linked like in the previous package I made, with files in more appropriate places (not /opt) and all together I’ll try to do a better job

*** Update *** I never got round to making a package, those after packages for ubuntu should go here. If you use debian then it is in apt, just install lastfm from apt.