Bryan posted his most played tracks to his blog. I used to publish a daily log of what tracks I'd played in iTunes, but its records bugged me and I gave up on it. Still, it seemed like very slightly entertaining information to share. For example, Bryan listened to The District Sleeps Alone about three times as often as the next contender. Either he needs to obsess less or use smart playlists more!
See? Now if I share this data, you will be able to give me a hard time. So, here it is:
name artist album count last Sleeping In The Postal Service Give Up 32 2008-06-25 Golden Slumbers The Beatles Abbey Road 31 2008-06-29 The District Sleeps Al... The Postal Service Give Up 31 2008-01-09 We Will Become Silhoue... The Postal Service Give Up 26 2008-06-25 The Choice Is Yours (R... Black Sheep A Wolf In Sh... 25 2007-10-04 Land Of Sunshine Faith No More Angel Dust 25 2008-06-06 Under African Skies Paul Simon Graceland 25 2008-05-13 Such Great Heights The Postal Service Give Up 25 2008-06-11 Definition Black Star Black Star 24 2008-02-19 The Deportees Club Christy Moore Bespoke Song... 24 2008-04-22 London Calling The Clash London Calling 24 2008-05-21 Vibrate Mr. Scruff Trouser Jazz 24 2008-05-29 Downtown Train Tom Waits Rain Dogs 24 2008-06-25 Look At That Old Grizz... Unknown Royal Tenenb... 24 2008-05-22 (I Can't Get No) Satis... Devo Now It Can B... 23 2008-05-09 See The Kleptones A Night at t... 23 2008-05-21 Ms. Jackson Outkast Stankonia 23 2008-05-21 We Luv Deez Hoez Outkast Stankonia 23 2008-01-24 I Know What I Know Paul Simon Graceland 23 2008-06-06 We Will Rock You Queen ? 23 2007-11-28 Lucky Radiohead OK Computer 23 2008-06-06 Fingertips (Reprise) They Might Be Giants Apollo 18 23 2008-05-14 Alice Tom Waits Alice 23 2008-06-10 I'm Still Here Tom Waits Alice 23 2008-06-10 Dirt in the Ground Tom Waits Bone Machine 23 2008-06-06
Rather than just post a screenshot, though, I did the easy to reproduce thing
and wrote a program to generate a nice dump. Later, I may incorporate this
into my blog script to post it for me when it's changed enough to be
interesting. Or not.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Format;
use Mac::Glue qw(:glue);
use String::Truncate qw(elide);
use Text::Table;
my $itunes = Mac::Glue->new('iTunes');
my $pl = $itunes->obj(playlist => whose(name => equals => 'Most Played'))->get;
my @tracks = $pl->obj('tracks')->get;
my @cols = qw(name artist album played_count played_date);
my @labels = qw(name artist album count last);
my $tt = Text::Table->new(@labels);
for my $track (@tracks) {
my @data = map { $track->prop($_)->get } @cols;
$data[0] = elide($data[0], 25);
$data[2] = elide($data[2] || '?', 15);
my @lt = localtime $data[-1];
$data[-1] = strftime('%Y-%m-%d', @lt);
$tt->add(@data);
}
print $tt;
At the risk of starting
Re:last.fm?
rjbs on 2008-08-06T01:54:27
I haven't found anything that tolerably will update last.fm with things from both iTunes, which I listen to occasionally, AND my iPhone/iPod, which I listen to constantly. The one I had found, ScrobblePod, was awful.
Re:last.fm?
sungo on 2008-08-06T02:06:17
the last.fm desktop software itself, in theory, can do that now. I haven't tried because until recently I was running mobilescrobbler on my iphone. Moving to the 2.x firmware lost that for me but I will be giving the last.fm iphone sync a try soon.