Hey Gordon. I did the exact same thing as Dan did today. I have 20k songs scrobbled on last.fm and it didn't take me anywhere near an hour to import AND export. I used Dan's method with the correct version of BeautifulSoup and everything went smooth. I'd say importing songs to libre.fm took me about 5 minutes. I don't know what happened with Dan's particular case, but I can't see it taking an hour. It throws data in group of 50 pretty instantly. I say give it a shot. Worse case scenario you'll break something, and we'll know and will be able to fix it. With Dan's exposure, I'm certain you won't be the only one running the scripts, but you might be the only one who'll ask if it's okay to run it.
So just export, remove dupes with the method you prefer from the wiki and run the import. Let us know how it went. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Gordon Haverland < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > Someone (Dan Lynch) has a thread/blog/whatever running I seen via > LinuxToday about libre.fm. I gather you are looking for data. > His article: > > > http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/05/libre-followup/comment-page-1/#comment-1865 > > suggests using a python script, which happens to be sensitive to > which version of beautifulsoup you run. On my machine, the soup > curdled. Too much Perl code maybe? Anyway, is there a > description somewhere, of just how you download this stuff from > last.fm, and what you need (I gather no duplicates). > > Apparently Dan had 10,000 songs, and it took him an hour to upload > the data. I have no doubt he has a faster connection than I do, > and I have 300,000 songs to upload, if you want something this > big. I could easily run this on nice at low priority, or split > it into parts, or whatever. > > But having some idea as to how I am going to download the 5600 > pages of tracks information would be a nice start. If nothing > else, I'll edit the thing in emacs once I get it here. > > Thanks, > Gord > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > -- - pL "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from many, it's research."
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