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1. zombie-san
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Is there a way to show what am listening to like it does on a myspace blog? I want to show the album art cover, artist name, and maybe some details. Is there a way you can do it with the Amazon Media Manager plugin?

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ill warn you off from doing that.. I have a script that queries last.fm for my latest tracks than goes out and snags the cd covers from one of three sites.

   Its (the script) very server intensive and slows __everything__ down. There is a reason why none of the current scripts that do anything like this have not been made public, and thats pretty much it. Its a tremendous drain on server resources. atleast

   last.fm isnt stable 15%, and of the other 85%, 5% of the time you wont have album art, or it wont be on amazon, etc...

   I know that didnt really answer your question but ... trust me, Ive tried it.

   There are alternatives by the way, for cover art, i know of atleast 2 folks that host their own cover art scripts for people to use..

   if something like that might interest you, let me know, and ill track down the urls.

3. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   wow, reading that reply, i wonder if english really is my first language. ugh.

4. zombie-san
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes I would be very interested. Thank you. :)

5. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   actually, here ya go .. this will do what you wanted in the first place, assuming your using last.fm, that is. he has/had the other script I mentioned running too (only i cant find that one right this second)

   http://dirkie.nu/2006/04/12/lastfm-covers/

   let us know what you think of that .. ill be interested in hearing.

6. zombie-san
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, I'm going to give it a try.
   I need to set up an account on last.fm and all, but I'll let you know when I have it running. :)

   Thanks!

7. zombie-san
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Actually I just noticed something. The download button for the plugin is crossed out, so I'm guessing that plugin is having issues or something?

8. hondjevandirkie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @zombie-scan: the old one worked ok, but used a feed at last.fm that never updates. So I built a new version that changes the cd covers every week. You can read more about it at

   http://dirkie.nu/2006/11/14/run-for-cover/

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