I have reached a music-listening milestone in my life. I have scrobbled 100,000 tracks on Last.fm. It is an extremely pointless milestone, but a milestone nonetheless! This event occurred on October 9th 2013.
What does that mean? It means that I have listened to 100,000 tracks on a computer (or smartphone) capable of logging and reporting those listens to the Last.fm service. Logging a track in this way is known as “Scrobbling”.
Of course that means that I have listened to much more music than that, when you include non-scrobble-able media: radio, vinyl, iPod (iPods are supposed to Scrobble, but I have never gotten it to work), and other sources.
So even though this milestone doesn’t actually mean anything, it is interesting. I have always been interested in the Last.fm database of my listening history. It just silently scrobbles tracks; collecting data about my music listening history. This data has the potential to be used in a number of cool ways.
I have patiently waited for others to write useful apps, widgets, etc so I can reap the benefits of having accumulated so much data. About a year ago I got tired of waiting for others to write some of the specific code that I so desperately wanted, so I did it myself. I combined the powers of Yahoo Pipes and the Last.fm API to create a widget that displays the album art of my Top Albums of the week. [ Click the link to check it out!]
It is dynamically updated based on my real-time scrobbles, so that whenever you like, you can see what albums have had my attention in the last week. Pretty nifty, huh!? Since I have really no coding background, I’m quite proud of that feat.There is SO much more that can be done with this data, I just need to figure out how to do it, because I have some cool ideas for apps, widget, visualizations, etc.
It is dynamically updated based on my real-time scrobbles, so that whenever you like, you can see what albums have had my attention in the last week. Pretty nifty, huh!? Since I have really no coding background, I’m quite proud of that feat.There is SO much more that can be done with this data, I just need to figure out how to do it, because I have some cool ideas for apps, widget, visualizations, etc.
Some Stats about my 100,000 Scrobbles
Start Date: December 10th 2006 (I was in college in those days)
Date of 100,000th Scrobble: October 9th 2013
Length of Time Scrobbling: Almost 7 years of music listening data!
Average Tracks per day: 40
Artists in my library: 1,953Milestone Tracks: Think of this list as a grab-sample for the respective timeperiod. An interesting look into a music listening history.
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16-Dec-06
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13-Jan-07
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18-May-07
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30-Jun-07
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2-Aug-07
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30-Sep-07
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20-Oct-07
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7-Nov-07
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28-Nov-07
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20-Dec-07
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17-Jan-08
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6-Feb-08
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5-Mar-08
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21-Mar-08
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9-Apr-08
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1-May-08
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23-May-08
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20-Jun-08
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7-Jul-08
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11-Oct-08
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20-Nov-08
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8-Dec-08
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14-Jan-09
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8-Feb-09
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6-Mar-09
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4-May-09
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17-Jun-09
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1-Jul-09
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15-Jul-09
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3-Aug-09
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17-Aug-09
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31-Aug-09
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15-Sep-09
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1-Oct-09
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16-Oct-09
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30-Oct-09
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20-Nov-09
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15-Dec-09
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3-Jan-10
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16-Jan-10
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31-Jan-10
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16-Feb-10
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29-Mar-10
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16-Apr-10
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10-May-10
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1-Jun-10
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23-Jun-10
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15-Jul-10
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1-Aug-10
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26-Aug-10
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4-Oct-10
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27-Oct-10
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15-Nov-10
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24-Dec-10
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28-Jan-11
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16-Feb-11
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10-Mar-11
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30-Mar-11
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23-Apr-11
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5-Jul-11
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27-Sep-11
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27-Oct-11
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11-Nov-11
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6-Dec-11
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12-Jan-12
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27-Jan-12
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8-Feb-12
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27-Feb-12
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8-Mar-12
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4-Apr-12
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19-Apr-12
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2-May-12
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16-May-12
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1-Jun-12
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20-Jun-12
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4-Jul-12
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25-Jul-12
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14-Aug-12
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13-Sep-12
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28-Sep-12
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21-Oct-12
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7-Nov-12
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11-Dec-12
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6-Jan-13
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5-Feb-13
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7-Mar-13
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5-Apr-13
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30-Apr-13
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16-May-13
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6-Jun-13
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24-Jun-13
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16-Jul-13
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10-Aug-13
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20-Aug-13
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9-Oct-13
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101000th track:
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30-Oct-13
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As of this Milestone here are my charts.
Top Artists
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Top Albums
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M83 – Hurry
Up, We're Dreaming
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2
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Harlem
Shakes – Technicolor Health
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TV on the
Radio – Dear Science
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4
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Crystal
Castles – Crystal Castles
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5
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Yeasayer – ODD
BLOOD
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The
Knife – Silent Shout
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Band of
Horses – Everything All the Time
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8
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Fleet
Foxes – Helplessness Blues
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Deer
Tick – War Elephant
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10
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Fleet
Foxes – Fleet Foxes
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11
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The Head and the
Heart – The Head and The Heart
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12
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Andrew
Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs
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13
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Passion
Pit – Manners
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14
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Andrew
Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
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15
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St.
Vincent – Actor
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Top Tracks
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Scrobbles
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1
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Band of
Horses – The Funeral
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2
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Harlem
Shakes – Niagara Falls
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77
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3
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The
Knife – Na Na Na
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4
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Yeasayer – Ambling
Alp
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5
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Harlem
Shakes – Sunlight
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6
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Harlem
Shakes – Strictly Game
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7
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Harlem
Shakes – Unhurried Hearts (Passaic Pastoral)
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8
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Mew – Special
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9
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Harlem
Shakes – TFO
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10
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Yeasayer – I
Remember
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11
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Yeasayer – Madder
Red
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12
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The
Knife – Silent Shout
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69
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13
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Harlem
Shakes – Nothing But Change, Part II
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14
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Yeasayer – The
Children
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68
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