beets-LastLoved

Plugin for beets to import loved tracks from last.fm.

Dependencies

• pylast

Setup

Clone somewhere and configure beets:

pluginpath:
  - /cloned/path/beetsplug
plugins: lastloved
lastfm:
  user: yourname

Using

Just run beet lastloved! This will add a new field, loved, to your database and files. It also automatically deletes the old loved field on a new run, so that un-loved songs will update. I like to use this in conjunction with smartplaylist to make a "favorites" playlist:

smartplaylist:
  playlists:
    - name: favorites.m3u
      query: "loved:True"

Song Matching

This works by fetching your loved tracks from last.fm, then queries your beets database for the a few fields, in decreasing priortiy:

• MusicBrains track ID
• Title and Album
• Title and Artist

If these all fail, the plugin will alert you which songs it failed to match.

Credits

This plugin is based on the lastimport plugin that is included with beets.