Using LastFm with MediaMonkey Scripts

Media Monkey, the ultimate tagging solution for your music library.

The sheer comprehensiveness and number of features alone is staggering, but Media Monkey excels at one other thing; managing huge music libraries. When Windows Media Player chokes, iTunes falters and Songbird crawls away sheepishly Media Monkey can shoulder the load and display thousands of songs with ease.

What Media Monkey can also do is run scripts to extend the functionality of the software. Locating decent scripts is unfortunately a bit of a pain for a non-programmer like me, many scripts are old, buggy or no longer working and Media Monkey doesn’t provide a central directory itself.

Here are two scripts I found which you can use in conjunction with LastFM to help you in tagging your music library:

GenreTagger

If you’ve had enough of trying to genre-tag all your music just take the easy way and use GenreTagger, it’ll scan your music and check the songs against LastFM. If the particular song isn’t there than it’ll use a generic artist tag.

Default behaviour works fine, however when I tried to change some of the options I got some error messages. You can also choose for the script to only tag songs without genre tags, which might be handy if you’ve already done half your library and are happy with it.

Similar Artists

After selecting one or more artists the Similar Artists script scours LastFM and finds recommended artists from there, if you have any of these in your library then it will make a auto-playlist for you based on this.

Have a fiddle around with the options and settings, but this is a great and easy to use tool for creating some custom playlists.

LastFM Dynamic Node

Last.FM Node creates a custom node on the main tree, which can load tracks from your library based on several different last.fm xml feeds. It also includes a ‘Last.FM DJ’ mode which can auto-enqueue tracks from your library based on related track information from last.fm.

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