is there any way we can get the data for our countries as well as scrobbles and artists of those countries as pure text?
I would like to put it into pie charts and other things.

From DM on Reddit:

from jjaazz sent 2 years ago

i have noticed that the tag "korean" is messing some of my stats. if an artist has a "korea(n)" and "south korea(n)" tag, it counts it as south korean. if an artist has a "korea(n)" and "north korea(n)" it counts it as south korean as well.

with both countries being called korea in english i think it would be wise to change the way that tag works.

anyway thanks for the awesome site!

E.g. "Brasil" for Brazil etc. Should improve accuracy a bit.

Suggestion from an old reddit thread

• rename the country
• add tag detection for myanmar etc

I have tried this several times on different browsers, on different accounts, but at some point the tool will stop loading new artists and get stuck on some multiple of 50. This is without clicking or even hovering over any artists.

rip last.fm

E.g. "Sound of Central Asian Folk" (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6zZc6904zlMlWQqH16hjlx?si=vie6lHgyTguK90IB7uFrMw), "Sound of Tajik Traditional" (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7GmKZthF6bYPWlhFBTQ3Ef?si=faXTvVtEQMWGj2vOY6-PDA)

Not necessarily an issue depending on view but can be a frustrating feature that many users might not be aware of but artist tags do not properly update without clearing cache.

What I mean by this is that if you listen to a brand new artist that is not properly tagged yet (or any artist missing location tags), it will appear in the bottom left as artists that are missing location data. If you click those artists, tag them, wait 1 - 3 days, they will still never move from that list to their tagged country unless you clear your cache.

If you're on chrome, use this to easily find and clear cache for just the explr site:
chrome://settings/siteData?searchSubpage=mold.github.io

My profile has a reasonably large number of artists (12000) which seems to be about the limit of Google Chrome's storage limit (which I think is 10MB):

Uncaught DOMException: Failed to set the 'countryCountObj' property on 'Storage': Setting the value of 'countryCountObj' exceeded the quota.

Storing the data in a less verbose way will help (one hack I found was removing the image meta data in countryCountObj - see c91c8e2), but catching the error and displaying a prompt is probably the way to go.

fuck domain squatters

Like "boing" or "bong", like the country bounces or "bongs"

It's a great tool and really fun to use. However, in the website it says there are a total of 210 countries, whereas, countries.csv only lists a total of 209 countries (210 lines but the first line is the heading line). Because of that, no one can get a 100% score even if they tried, which is rather unfortunate.

For the sake of encouraged exploration, some countries should be split into their constituent territories.

From `wizzard':

Maldives aren't showing on the map, also there is a lot of countries/territories that are "undefined" and don't work either (like guernsey, jersey, isle of man, guam, falkland islands, united states virgin islands and some others).

French Guiana is another example, as mentioned in the FAQ.

For badly tagged artists with a known and confirmed country of origin, we should just look them up from a public file of mappings and take additions through pull requests.

The Scrobbled from # countries shows that I've listened to 114 countries, and my friend has listened to 28 countries. Exporting the data (or counting the countries manually for my friend) shows only 113 countries for me, and 27 countries for my friend.

Might be related to #22

The tool seems to miss some scrobbles, notably scrobbles that do not have a proper scrobble date (the old, official last.fm import from iTunes created scrobbles like these). I believe this is caused by using the library.getartists api method instead of the user.gettopartists method. Both methods return almost identical responses so they are almost interchangeable, but the user.gettopartists method is more accurate for scrobble counts.

A searchbox on the map would be handy to find tiny island nations such as Tuvalu

Per the FAQ "An artist's associated country is determined by its user-generated tags on last.fm, and these are not always correct. Mistakes will often occur when there are more than one artist with the same name. It's a problem with the data that we can't do anything about." I assumed this was the case with artist Ariel showing up in Argentina, since there are many artists with this name collected in one profile. But looking at the profile it doesn't have a tag "Argentina" or "Argentinian" or even any mention of Argentina in the Bio. So why does Ariel show up as being Argentinian?

Not sure if you're still working on this but if possible I think it would be cool to have the option to see only my data for the past month, year, or other time periods.

probably related, throws at the end of loading all artists:

script.js:126 Uncaught TypeError: e.artists.artist.forEach is not a function
    at script.js:126:1
    at lastfm.js:133:1
    at Object.<anonymous> (d3.v3.min.js:1:11277)
    at Object.t (d3.v3.min.js:1:1565)
    at XMLHttpRequest.i (d3.v3.min.js:1:10137)

People have pointed out that #coted'ivore is not a working tag, and that it needs aliases