LastHistory

LastHistory Version 1.0.1

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:48:05 +0200

I’ve released a small update to LastHistory, fixing an issue on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and possibly other systems where the history was not downloaded. Thanks to Rish for pointing out the issue!

You can get LastHistory 1.0.1 here.

Thesis

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:23:00 +0100

You can now download the complete thesis about LastHistory.

LastHistory User Group on Last.fm

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:28:41 +0100

Join the new LastHistory user group on Last.fm to discuss LastHistory with other users.

Newsweek: LastHistory Mashes Up Your Music and Photo Timelines

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:30 +0100

Newsweek: LastHistory Mashes Up Your Music and Photo Timelines:

LastHistory pulls in [data from Last.fm] to create a spectacular visualization of your audio timeline. The result looks a bit like a decoded genome, and has probably just as much metadata powering it.

LastHistory review on Music Machinery

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:44:00 +0100

LastHistory review on Music Machinery:

… the first novel music exploration app of the decade.

Crashes while downloading listening history

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:16:00 +0100

A quick heads-up for all of you trying out LastHistory just now: when creating a new visualization, it is better not to interact with the program until the history is fully downloaded.

There seems to be a threading issue that can cause the application to crash when hovering over nodes while the download is still in progress.

Introducing LastHistory

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:42:00 +0100

Are you using Last.fm? Did you ever wonder if there shouldn’t be more to scrobbling tracks, dream about somehow discovering a deeper meaning in those thousands and thousands of songs diligently submitted to Last.fm to build up your profile, analyzing the entries building up your music listening history?

LastHistory is a new visualization for Last.fm profiles. Visualizing an entire music listening history on the track-level on a two-dimensional timeline, it allows you to dive into your history, finding that track that you played 42 times in a row back in 2007, listening to the playlists long deleted, finding out that you gradually moved from hip-hop to minimal electronic, and that you only listen to Radiohead between October and December.

What’s more, it shows your iPhoto library alongside your listening history, ready to show the perfect photo slideshow from your last summer vacation while listening to that album you played every morning at the beach.

LastHistory is a desktop application for Mac OS X v10.5 or higher. Download LastHistory now and start exploring.