LastFM4OBS

LastFM4OBS is a tool used to get the information of a currently playing track from a user's last.fm profile and store details into a text file and the album art to a local PNG. Somewhat configurable using a config file. Created to show now playing information on a stream created in OBS.

While other tools have been created for this purpose, they have either a) not been configurable to the degree I would like or b) are locked to particular services (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music)

Configuration

The config.ini file has two categories of options, namely, LOCAL, and last.fm

LOCAL

LOCAL considers how the data where and how the last.fm data is stored

directory: Select the directory where you'd like the last.fm information to be stored

format: The format in which you'd like the textual information displayed. The format options are:

Option	Description
%%TRACK	Track name
%%ARTIST	Artist name
%%ALBUM	Album name
\\n	Newline character
\\t	Tab character

last.fm

The last.fm category only considers which username is to be examined

username: The id of the user who you want to get last.fm recently played data for (most likely your own account)

Usage

• Configure the config.ini to your specifications

• Run LastFM4OBS.exe, a Windows command prompt will appear, leave this open for as long as you wish

Example

With the format string of Track:%%TRACK\\\nArtist:%ARTIST, when the request from last.fm is satisfied, the target directory will look like the following:

With the text file containing:

However, when the album art cannot be retrieved for whatever reason, the target directory will look like the following:

With the text file containing the correct information:

If the track cannot be retrieved at all or no track is currently playing, the text and image files will not update.

Issues

There are several known issues:

• Occasionally last.fm will return bad information even if it displayed fine on the last.fm website. I'm investigating how to fix this

• When using images with OBS, sometimes the image won't display. This is due to OBS's refreshing time when an image is updated

• Some songs are just not listed on last.fm and will not be displayed. An error will instead be logged

Any other issues please submit a bug report.

Enhancements

Several features coming soon:

• More configurable config file

• Better error handling

• Display more music data

Feature requests are welcome! :D