Information
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This service has been running since Spring 2006 and is currently serving 13673 images or 374 Megabytes to 10845 users.
The current traffic amounts to more than 100 Gigabytes per month.
This load is distributed across a small network of servers. Currently, there are two of them:
What is this?
This service enables anyone with a Last.fm-account to create images that display his or hers most favorite albums.
The fact that I'm generating images (and not flash-animations as Last.fm does) makes it possible to use them in environments that offer only a limited amount of markup-possibilities such as BBCode (for example Forums and Last.fm-profiles).
Simply create yourself an image-tag using the handy Code Generator. Then post it wherever you want your image to appear. The rest will be done by my server.
None of the imagical data belongs to me, all of it will be downloaded on the fly from Last.fm's servers.
How it works
This site collects the data from Last.fm alias Audioscrobbler, downloads the Albumarts and sticks them together in one Image.
The generated image will then be saved for at least 21 days and after that either be deleted or, if still in use, be refreshed.
The size of your images is limited to a maximum of 30 albums.
How to use it
Simply create an imagetag that points to
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/<your username>.jpeg
or, if you want a different image-layout use
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/<columns>x<rows>/<your username>.jpeg
For example:
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/phoque.jpeg
or
http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/3x6/phoque.jpeg
BBCode example:
[img]http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/3x6/phoque.jpeg[/img]
with a link to your profile
[url=http://www.last.fm/user/phoque/]
[img]http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/3x6/phoque.jpeg[/img]
[/url]
HTML example:
<img src="http://lastfm.obsessive-media.de/3x6/phoque.jpeg" alt="Last.fm Album charts">
Confused already? Simply use the Code Generator.