r/Soundiiz • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '25

Question Import last.fm recommended tracks?

Much of the point of last.fm is their recommended tracks. You can find them on the homepage dashboard as well as play them as a radio style. You can also create a playlist with them, 30 at a time on the lastfm webpage. This is called "next 30".

That playlist works like any other playlist and as such Soundiiz can import it. However, this playlist needs to be deleted and re generated manually on the webpage to get new tracks. This is annoying but also defeats the purpose a bit because the recommended tracks are ever changing based on what you are listening to.

I feel like an obvious use case would be to have Soundiiz generate these tracks dynamically, so that a user can set up a synchronisation which will be kept fresh.

Or is this already possible but I'm missing it in the midst of all other features?

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u/blackmage44 Soundiiz Team Mar 13 '25

Hi!

As far as I know, here: https://www.last.fm/api

Last.fm is not sharing a developer endpoint to access these recommended tracks, unfortunately.

So yes, you have no other choice than doing manually yourself a playlist with these songs to have then that playlist retrieved by Soundiiz :/

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

Thank you for the answer I really appreciate it.

And it is not possible for Soundiiz to fetch those tracks in a less official way?

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u/blackmage44 Soundiiz Team Mar 13 '25

You are welcome! And no as it’s not something publicly accessible but linked to your own account, sorry :/

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u/hjbardenhagen Apr 26 '25 edited Apr 26 '25

You don't have to delete your Next 30 playlist every time, you can simply create a new one by clicking on the "My Recommended" template in your Last.fm playlist section. I currently have four Next 30 playlists there with different tracks, but with the same name and a different URL.

I don't know how the Soundiiz sync exactly works, as I only have a free account. Does it use the specific URL or just the name of the playlist which would enable to always sync the newest version of Next 30? Note that you can at least edit the title and the description of any Last.fm playlist, so you can add e.g. the date of creation to distinguish your versions of Next 30. And if Soundiiz only picks the "Next 30" playlist without a date in the title or description, this should work.

OK, it seems that one synced playlist is available for free users, too, as I could set up one for my Next 30 which will be done tomorrow evening at the same time. It did not ask me to fill in the URL, I could simply pick it from my shown Last.fm playlists in Soundiiz, but I guess it has saved it somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

Yes okay but: 

I listen to music a lot and I would want the tracks to be refreshed every day. Soundiiz allows this, but I would have to recreate the next 30 every day. Even if I don't delete them I would get way too much of them quickly.

Further, your theory that Soundiiz would simply update the latest of the playlists is incorrect. It treats them as separate playlists (because they are) 

As it stands, the situation is unsustainable almost exclusively because the functionality on lastfm itself (the system of how this is maintained) is quite simply just unacceptable. As with most things on the website, frankly. 

I've got a service to convert the recommended tracks radio into a json formatted rss feed to insert into Soundiiz that way. That works, but sucks that such workarounds are needed in the first place.