Updated Sep 13, 2007 by manoftomorrow
Labels:	userdata, Phase-Implementation, topalbums

UserDataTopAlbums

Retrieves the 50 most played albums from a Last.fm profile.

Package com.lfm.services.UserData

Class public class TopAlbums

Inheritance AbstractService --> AbstractUserData --> TopAlbums

TopAlbums Summary

Retrieves the 50 most played albums from a Last.fm music profile.

Details

Constructor Arguments	Summary
Username	(required) Last.fm username to retrieve the profile data for.
Type	(optional) accepts "3month", "6month", or "12month" for different chart results. Default is "overall"
Methods	Summary
load	Fetches data from web service
Events	Summary
complete	Dispatched when the data has been loaded (Event.COMPLETE)
ioError	Dispatched when there is a problem connecting to the web service (IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR)
Properties (read-only)	Summary
username (String)	Username for the profile being queried
albums (Array)	Array of top albums
type (String)	Chart type returned (overall, 3month, 6month, 12month)

Album object structure

Properties	Summary
artist (Object)	Name and Musicbrainz ID of the artist (artist.name, artist.mbid)
name (String)	Album name
mbid (String)	Musicbrainz.org ID of the album
rank (Number)	Album rank on the users chart
playcount (Number)	Number of times user has played this artist
url (String)	URL to the artists Last.fm profile page
image (Object)	URL to the small, medium and large album image covers (image.small, image.medium, image.large)

Example Usage

import com.lfm.services.UserData.TopAlbums;
import flash.events.Event;

var albumdata:TopAlbums = new TopAlbums("RJ");
albumdata.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,serviceLoaded);
albumdata.load();

function serviceLoaded(event:Event):void {
    for(var i:Number = 0; i < albumdata.albums.length; i++) {
        trace(i+". Album Name:" + albumdata.albums[i]['name']);
        trace(" Album Artist:" + albumdata.albums[i]['artist']['name']);
        trace(" Album Artist Musicbrainz ID:" + albumdata.albums[i]['artist']['mbid']);
        trace(" Musicbrainz ID:" + albumdata.albums[i]['mbid']);
        trace(" Rank:" + albumdata.albums[i]['rank']);
        trace(" Playcount:" + albumdata.albums[i]['playcount']);
        trace(" URL:" + albumdata.albums[i]['url']);
        trace(" Image Large:" + albumdata.albums[i]['image']['large']);
        trace(" Image Medium:" + albumdata.albums[i]['image']['medium']);
        trace(" Image Small:" + albumdata.albums[i]['image']['small']);
    }
}

Comment by anaserhall, Dec 11, 2009

import com.lfm.services.UserData.TopAlbums?; import flash.events.Event;

var albumdata:TopAlbums? = new TopAlbums?("RJ"); albumdata.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,serviceLoaded); albumdata.load();

function serviceLoaded(event:Event):void {

for(var i:Number = 0; i < albumdata.albums.length; i++) {
trace(i+". Album Name:" + albumdata.albumsi?'name'?); trace(" Album Artist:" + albumdata.albumsi?'artist'?'name'?); trace(" Album Artist Musicbrainz ID:" + albumdata.albumsi?'artist'?'mbid'?); trace(" Musicbrainz ID:" + albumdata.albumsi?'mbid'?); trace(" Rank:" + albumdata.albumsi?'rank'?); trace(" Playcount:" + albumdata.albumsi?'playcount'?); trace(" URL:" + albumdata.albumsi?'url'?); trace(" Image Large:" + albumdata.albumsi?'image'?'large'?); trace(" Image Medium:" + albumdata.albumsi?'image'?'medium'?); trace(" Image Small:" + albumdata.albumsi?'image'?'small'?);
}

}