Comments on: How to Download your LAUNCHcast Ratings

By: Will

Will — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:18:39 +0000

Hey, just tried this (was looking for this kind of app before the CBS takeover – somehow missed it last year) and sadly, it doesn’t work for me now. Just an empty spreadsheet for all 3 categories. Thoughts?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000

Thanks Jeff for the quick reply. Yes, Pandora is a nice try. You program artists or songs you like, and it derives a channel from that. I preferred LC in the way it heavily played your favorites, some of your 50-70s, and occasionally something new.

I wasn’t as clear as I meant to be at 4:30am. I meant to ask if there was an app that you could run that could serve your on-harddrive MP3s in a fashion similar to how LC had. Now that I have my downloaded lists of ratings, I am going to focus on compiling my own library.

Know of any MP3 player that could be leveraged to play like LC? Or maybe a plugin for Winamp?

By: Jeff Boulter

Jeff Boulter — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:24:43 +0000

I’ve never used it, but people seem to like Pandora.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:33:11 +0000

Jeff,

Thanks for the tool and for the previous years with LC.

Can you suggest any app or other service that can do similar to LC – whereby higher rated songs are played more often? I was kind of hoping something would have come through by now.

By: dyaimz

dyaimz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:41:23 +0000

Thanks from me too. It took me about 20 goes, but I eventually got 8000 of my 9500 song ratings downloaded. Genius move to sort them according to rank because by 7800 it was just the zero rated songs that I didn’t want to hear again, so I won’t bother trying to retrieve the rest.

I’ll try & scrobble these onto last.fm now. It’s not as good but needs must.

BTW at first I thought you were a launchcast hater because I read your app as launch-castrate!

By: John David Payne

John David Payne — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:30:42 +0000

Thank you so much! Yahoo is allowing us to access the ratings, but it only displays them as stars. I always did my ratings out of 100, and the software tool you created downloaded the information the way I created it– out of 100, not out of 5 stars. Thank you!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:47:22 +0000

You are the man. Thank you so much for this. Makes me feel like the years I spent rating music didn’t go completely to waste. Cheers.

By: Adam Kerchner

Adam Kerchner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:45:11 +0000

I’ve waited so long to be able to download this data. Thank you so much!!! I used launchcast religiously for nearly 5 years at work and was heartbroken when the customized stations were turned off. You are the man!!!! There so much great music that I discovered because of Launchcast- thanks for giving it all back to me in this data!!!!

By: Esli

Esli — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:01:14 +0000

I’m still able to listen to My Station, I feel a little bit guilty not to share it with you when I read al these sad comments, but I’m also scared that if I share the link that it will be cut off too. I don’t know how long it will last, and maybe it is because of my location (The Netherlands)? I just had to share it with you, should I share the link here?

By: Esli

Esli — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:13:33 +0000

Thanks a lot! I was really worried because I spent almost six years molding my LaunchCast station in wat it was until now. It’s really a shame that Yahoo discontinued this service, without thinking about thousands of users that enjoyed their personal stations for years!