LastHistory [Mac] - Visualize and analyze LastFM music listening histories //app by Frederik Seiffert

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8272 LastHistory [Mac]

March 16, 2010 | In Mac | View Comments

LastHistory allows you to analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive visualization and to explore your own past by combining the music you listened to with your own photos and calendar entries. It is available as a desktop application for Mac OS X v10.5 or higher.

Included are two modes, optimized for a different use case. Analysis Mode can be used for interactively analyzing an arbitrary listening history (not necessarily your own) in three basic dimensions: time, tracks and genre. Integrated tools like searching, playlist highlighting, mouse-over information, and zooming allow to generate insight for the visualized music listening history in each of those dimensions. Personal Mode adapts the visualization shown in Analysis mode for exploring your own past: by adding photos from your iPhoto library and calendar entries from iCal to the visualization, you can reminisce about your past by listening to the top tracks from your last vacation while watching a slide show of the corresponding photos.

You can download the Mac OSX application by visiting the website or play with the source code which is available on GitHub.

LastHistory

The application was created as part of Frederik Seiffert‘s thesis (Diplomarbeit) at the Media Informatics Group of the University of Munich, supervised by Dominikus Baur.