It took may about an hour to do the whole process from downloading the initial scripts and getting started. It didn't take an hour just to import sorry. I might not have made that clear, will have to check on the wording. It also depends on your Internet connection I suppose. Mine was quite busy at the time.
Hope that clears it up a bit :) Dan On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Pier-Luc Petitclerc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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." > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > >
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