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