applescript folksonomy (genre tagger)

another minor update:

-double tags are reduced to only one tag
-scripts logs to logfile (update USERNAME in line 273 and "chmod 777 log.txt" if it does not work....

have fun...


http://www.michaelseemann.com/projects/folksonomy/ArtistTopTrack_Update_02.zip

Would it be possible to assign a certain track multiple tags.

Like acoustic, singer-songwriter, rock

Btw. The script is amazing.

I merged the two versions of nautisch and sstoermann.

Here's the download:
http://krenker.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/lastfm_tagger_v15.dmg

Changelog

1.5
* minor merge release by loserratio on 09/16/2009 - www.krenker.at
- merge of nautisch's and sstoermanns releases
- artist fallback + logging + performance upgrades

Changelog

1.7

* release by loserratio on 09/18/2009 - www.krenker.at

- migration to Snow Leopard

Download: lastfm_tagger_v17

sweet, i somehow forgot about the script and just read about all the updates u hacked so far (thx, theres no way for me right now to merge anything etc..)

going to give it a try any time soon.

btw: i have some more ideas listed somewhere, i'll post them as well, maybe someone wants to work on them...

10mins later: screw it, just tested 1.6 (still running leo)
works quite fine...

ideas:
- note in logfile (comments too?) if tags are a result of an artist fallback
- somehow improve the selection process for valid tags. so far pretty much is implemented but the selection still is... well... there's room to improve that
e.g. download all tags of a track to a local DB and implement some sort of self-learning script that realizes e.g. that AC/DC aint no metal.....
- work on the toptrack feature (instead of using a fixed numer, default=15 , calculate that depending on number of tracks released by the artist overall)


my 2cents ;-)

you can certainly use the php file that does all the actual work i.e. filtering etc but you would need to write some code that uses the php file because the applescript (obviously) does not work on a pc.

there are some similar plugins for e.g. winamp that you could use instead.

in case you should somehow manage to integrate the php provided here, please keep us updated...

Changelog

1.72
* release by loserratio on 12/12/2009 - www.krenker.at
- path to logfile is generated dynamically

Download: lastfm_tagger_v172

Thanks for the update!

However, even with v1.72, I still seem to be getting the following error:

Notice: Undefined variable: tagList in /Users/richardpaulguy/Library/iTunes/Scripts/lastfm_tagger_helper.php on line 238 Notice: Undefined variable: tagList in /Users/richardpaulguy/Library/iTunes/Scripts/lastfm_tagger_helper.php on line 238 Cover

Thank you, this script works great.

The only bug I can find is when I change $fallbackToArtistTopTags = false; it causes an error and all the genres are tagged with this text:

Warning: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /Users/thomas/Library/iTunes/Scripts/lastfm_tagger_helper.php on line 312 Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in /Users/thomas/Library/iTunes/Scripts/lastfm_tagger_helper.

I absolutely love this script! Thanks so much to everyone who worked on it and perfected it! I added a simple little bit of code at the end (right before the text log is written in the php_helper file) so that the script would only tag certain specified genres, but leave the stuff it doesn't use in the tag-cloud unaffected (for example, I don't want the genre of my music to be "fun", but I wouldn't mind keeping that information in the tag cloud for smart playlists). This is my first time delving into PHP, so tell me if my code is doing anything strange!

here it is:

$genreGroupings = array() //put your list of genre "keepers" in here.
$genre = '';
foreach ($tagList as $index => $tag) {
if (in_array($tag, $genreGroupings)) {
$genre = $tag;
break;
}
}

//then modify the echo line at the end so it reads that the genre value, before the first separator, is set to $genre.

Thanks a lot, this is awesome! It's now sloooowly working its way through my library. 12815 tracks with no indication of progress aside from tailing the logfile, this might take a while...

The script is great, but I also find the album thing strange. So if no one answers, I'll try to hack that functionality in by myself.

wow. i have been away from this for so long. I can't believe that this thread is still going so much later!