08-12-09

Turn Your Last.fm Into A Wordle

So what is Wordle?

Well it’s a cool site developed by Jonathan Feinberg that makes nice images based on text that you input. The way it makes the images is based on how frequent the word is.

So I thought, it’d be cool if it can generate a ‘Wordle’ based on your last.fm, for example artists with more plays would be bigger in the resulting ‘Wordle’ image. But that would involve copying your favourite artists’ name several times and can be a waste of time, so I’ve made it easier for you. Simply enter your last.fm username, choose what charts you want and then click go.

Note: Results will open in a new window, you then must copy the text and paste it into the ‘Wordle create’ textbox.

Warning: Last.fm users with high playcounts on their artists (for example 2000+ on some artists!) may take alot longer to load the results. Be patient!

New: You can now select top track charts!

Enter your last.fm username:
Please select what chart you want (default is overall charts):

I’m not the world’s best coder. So if anyone wants to help me make this work better, shoot me up an email!

Here are some examples of last.fm + wordle:

araci

Damo_The_Bo

willbo27

Posted by William » General, Music, Ramblings

8 Comments on “Turn Your Last.fm Into A Wordle”

  • Funky Word Cloud Thingy « He Got Games says:

    [...] and the end result can be fully customised – including the font, layout and colours. I found THIS, courtesy of NeoGAF, which provides a list of your most played artists in Last.fm, which you can [...]

    08-13-09 » 7:54 am »

  • My Blog new » Blog Archive » Your Last.fm account in words says:

    [...] Check it out [...]

    08-18-09 » 5:58 am »

  • Humphrey says:

    That Wordle site is pretty cool… I tried it on my blog and it came up with COFFEE in really big letters… :-)

    08-18-09 » 10:18 pm »

  • АНОНС МУЗАНЫРОВ | Altsoph The Honest says:

    [...] LastFM Boffin, а выгрузка статистики lastfm в нужном формате вот этим онлайн сервисом. При визуализации в wordle надо внимательно выбирать [...]

    09-11-09 » 5:49 pm »

  • Last.fm plays last 6 months « OUTSIDE.IN. says:

    [...] of my Last.fm plays over the past 6 months, all styled by the neat wordle app. Here’s a quick tutorial on transferring your last.fm data into [...]

    09-16-09 » 8:32 pm »

  • Andy says:

    This is great, thanks!

    The following characters seem to split the wordle items: ‘()!

    those are just the ones that I noticed with my music, there are probably others.

    11-02-09 » 10:53 am »

  • www.martinbuitelaar.com » Blog Archive » Last.fm says:

    [...] Turn your Last.fm info into a Wordle – requires some manual copy-and-paste but I like the idea. Wordle is a tool to create cool tag clouds. [...]

    11-19-09 » 7:29 am »

  • Music Universe von Last.fm – Openmedi says:

    [...] Daten anfan­gen soll, wusste ich bis­her auch noch nicht so recht. Sicher man kann sei­nen Musik­ge­schmack als eine Wordle-Wolke dar­stel­len las­sen, aber sonst so? Jetzt gibt es auf play­ground, dem Show­case neuer Pro­jekte von [...]

    01-26-10 » 6:01 am »

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