Stream last.fm updates to twitter. Imagine if you will the following conundrum... You have impeccable taste in music. So much so that you have no misgivings about sharing your taste in music with the world at large via your favourite Web2.0 music site Last.fm . In addition to being a hip young thing with impeccable musical nous, you are ambiently connected to the continuous partial attention stream known as twitter . The problem is how do you let your generation Y chummies know that right now you are listening to the most blissful zeitgeisty tune without being a completely obnoxious musical bore? The solution I present is straightforward enough though it will require a little computer programming experience (if you don't have the coding chops, one of your geek buddies on twitter will surely help).
Just follow these simple steps and your exhibitionist impulses will soon be satisfied... If you are running Windows, install perl . Hey Kids! Downloads: Last.FM Downloader Lets You Download Last.FM Streams. Last.fm on Twitter. You have to use the "Recently played tracks" feed and Twitterfeed. First, create (if you haven't) an account on Twitterfeed and click on "go to my twitterfeeds (or create a new one)", then on "Create a new feed". On that page, enter your Twitter name and password (you can click on 'test twitter authentication' if you want to) and on "RSS feed url" type your "Recently played tracks" feed and click on 'test rss feed'. On "Update frequency" and "Post up to X new updates each time", you can choose how frequently (and how many updates) you want your tracks to be shown up, but remember to be considerate with your followers, since if you set this to update every 30 mins 5 new updates, this can be somewhat annoying to others.
Then on the "Include" drop down menu, choose "title only", so in this way, you can tweet the direct link to the song, and not only to the musician. Don't forget to check the box next to "Include item link". How To Scrobble To Last.fm And Twitter At The Same Time? Post Yo. March 29, 2008 at 2:18 am This took a while, but finally I got it setup. Yes, now I have it setup to scrobble and post all the music I am listening to on my system both to Last.fm and to Twitter at the same time. I have been scrobbling music to Last.fm for a while now (since August 29, 2006) and have well over 10,000 tracks on my Last.fm page.
You can check out more about my Last.fm profile here. I have only recently started twittering from 12:43 pm March 13, 2008, and while it’s fun to post a tweet off and on about what I am doing, tweeting music I am listening to every few minutes or so is a taxing and time consuming chore and it serves my purpose much better if tracks are automatically scrobbled and submitted to Twitter just like at Last.fm without any input from my side and this was a feature I was looking for in submitting my track information to Twitter.
Now to the actual solution itself. The Most Popular Music of 2008: iTunes vs Last.fm. It’s that time of year – the “best of” 2008 lists. Previously the realm of TV specials, web services now routinely put out their own lists, providing a glimpse into the trends of the past year. Over the past 24 hours, both iTunes and Last.fm have put out lists of the most popular music on their respective services, based on the number of downloads and listens. Here’s a side-by-side look at how the two compare: Top Track iTunes1. Top Album iTunes1. Best New Artist iTunes1. Not surprisingly, the iTunes list is much more reflective of the pop charts, while Last.fm – a music discovery service – has some lesser known artists in its rankings.