Turn your last.fm profile into a Wordle image

Posted by Willbo on June 28th, 2008

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:

araci

Damo_The_Bo

willbo27

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33 Responses to “Turn your last.fm profile into a Wordle image”

  1. June 28th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Sax dizzle said:

    ok this may sound stupid but, whats last.fm?

  2. June 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Damo said:

    Black background, sideways text, white blue and orange… I think mine is the most striking one.

  3. June 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    ikara said:

    Nicely done, man. This is really quite something.

  4. June 29th, 2008 at 1:30 am

    Rayhan said:

    So good.

  5. June 29th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Wordle « said:

    [...] The Coolness [...]

  6. June 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    ikara said:

    Hahaha, I just noticed your forum post on Waffles! Nicely done, it’s taking off!

  7. June 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    CajoleJuice said:

    Nice job, dude! One for most played songs would be awesome, too. :P

  8. June 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    something apropos said:

    [...] to this handy little last.fm tool i’ve created a word map of my top [...]

  9. June 30th, 2008 at 12:14 am

    Cee Bee said:

    neat little app.

    here’s mine:

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/39961/last.fm_wordle

  10. June 30th, 2008 at 5:38 am

    patricia said:

    very nice, really!!

  11. June 30th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Pax Asiana » Last.fm Wordle Clouds said:

    [...] someone got the bright idea to take your last.fm profile and turn it into a Wordle image. Follow the instructions, and you’ll be set to create something like [...]

  12. June 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Top Weekly Artists (06/30/08) » jbrotherlove said:

    [...] My last.fm weekly Top Artists displayed as a Wordle via Master Giraffe. [...]

  13. July 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Wordle - Your Music, All Pretty-like. at zahnster said:

    [...] I really love webapps that mashup with my Last.fm account. I also really love things that are pretty, which is why I am proudly pimping out my newly created Wordle. [...]

  14. July 8th, 2008 at 1:48 am

    Fulvian said:

    Great job. Could it automatically translate foreign artist names to English where possible? (like in Last.fm Website settings) because Wordle can’t display Japanese artist names.

  15. July 12th, 2008 at 6:31 am

    Andrew Mager » Word block of your Last.fm artists said:

    [...] Mauricio blogged about this, and I have to try it. You can turn your Last.fm data into a visualization. [...]

  16. July 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Last.fm Wordle | Step Into the Nexus said:

    [...] came across this website and created a Last.fm Wordle that shows my overall tracks with the [...]

  17. July 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    nexy said:

    I really enjoyed this. Thank you! I put mine up at: http://www.missnexus.com/archives/last-fm-wordle/

  18. July 15th, 2008 at 12:36 am

    soren said:

    Would it be possible to make one just for one month? instead of 3 or 6

  19. July 15th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    Willbo said:

    no, unforunately last.fm only have charts for 3 months, 6 months and all time. Shame.

  20. July 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    sol said:

    No Unicode support :(

  21. July 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am

    travors said:

    Great stuff, thanks for this!
    I posted mine here: http://travors.com/post/42640959/a-wordle-of-my-listening-habits-no-suprises-here

  22. July 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Anthony McG » Blog Archive » My Last.fm Wordle said:

    [...] can get your list here and then put it into Wordle [...]

  23. July 20th, 2008 at 7:13 am

    soren said:

    damn, last fm changed design, and this doesn’t seem to work with the new design.
    will you make it work for the new one, or is this it? :)

  24. July 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Облако в словах said:

    [...] Джонатан Фейнберг, сотрудник исследовательского центра IBM и соавтор известного типографического проекта Alphabet Synthesis Machine, экспериментирующего с автоматизированным созданием шрифтов на основе одного штриха, запустил новый проект Wordle. Приложение, написанное на Java и работающее в браузере, позволяет создавать изящные шрифтовые композиции из текстов, RSS-потоков или тегов del.icio.us. У программы есть ряд настроек: можно выбрать шрифт, цветовую схему и механизм формирования композиции. Штатной возможности сохранения результата работы программы, в силу ограничений Java, к сожалению, нет, но получившуюся картинку можно распечатать или, немного похимичив, сохранить в PDF и таким образом перенести, например, в Adobe Illustrator. Flickr полон примеров использования Wordle разной степени изящности, а энтузиасты неустанно изобретают способы стравить приложения со сторонними источниками данных, например, музыкальными чартами last.fm. [...]

  25. July 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    onno said:

    Tnx, this is soooo cool!

  26. July 30th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    yhancik said:

    Awesome idea ! :D

  27. August 19th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    Wolf said:

    Sweet, but this crashed my browser. Maybe it has something to do with the 4 years of data? My profile is here: http://www.last.fm/user/Razorwolf

  28. August 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Sanataidetta 2 | skrubu.net blog said:

    [...] Flickristä linkin palveluun jossa voi generoida last.fm:stä matskua wordle-sanataidetta varten. Pitihän sitä kokeilla [...]

  29. August 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Kuuden kuukauden nimihärveli | Valontuoja said:

    [...] Turn your last.fm profile into a Wordle image. Via Tomi. [...]

  30. August 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Overall charts. « Jiipeen blogi said:

    [...] täällä voi tuollaisen luoda. [...]

  31. August 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    zweihundertzweiundzwanzig » wordle.fm said:

    [...] Wordlella last.fm -tageista generoitu pilvi on niin hieno, että sellainen kelpaisi kehystää ihan seinällekin. Kuinka mainiota olisikaan kantaa myös aina mukanaan paperille printattua versiota tästä! Jos joku sattuisi kysymään, millaisesta musiikista tykkäät, riittäisi ojentaa lirvake utelijalle. Takuuvarma jäänmurtaja baarissa. [...]

  32. August 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Kirkkaan päivän vaikutukset » Last.fm-soittolistani visuaalisesti said:

    [...] bongasin työkalun, jolla sai oman Last.fm-soittolistan hauskasti visuaaliseen muotoon. Tässä siis tämänhetkinen [...]

  33. August 26th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    antti.vilpponen.net — Last.fm playlist visualised said:

    [...] Here’s my last.fm playlist visualised. You too can create your own with this tool. [...]



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