See, the 24 albums I listened to the most since joining last.fm on March 3rd, 2004. These images appear because I added
[lastfmrecords period="topalbumsoverall" count="24" imgwidth="60" stylesheet="hover"]
to this page. The plugin code will replace this with the images. As you can see this way of showing covers is back in 1.5.4. Only thing to fix is the widget now — that one stays empty as the [] code overrules the widget. But the main thing for me is that if you want, you can use this option.
In the sidebar on your right you can see the plugin version. All the options are on the settings page for the plugin, except for the widget title.
Download
The plugin version is available at the WordPress Plugins Directory. Version 1.6 has been updated for WordPress 3.0.
Can I use this widget without WordPress?
Yes you can! Just include the javascript file from the zip and call it from your webpage.
An example:
<div id="lastfmrecords"></div>
<!-- do not forget to include jQuery if it is not already included -->
<script type='text/javascript' src='/PATH/TO/jquery.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='/PATH/TO/last.fm.records.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
var _config = {
// last.fm username
username: 'YOURUSERNAME',
// number of images to show
count: 10,
// period to get last.fm data from
period: '3month',
// when to get new data from last.fm (in minutes)
refresh: 1,
// difference between your timezone and GMT.
offset: 1
};
lastFmRecords.init(_config);
});
</script>
The period option can be set to `recenttracks`, `7day`, `3month`, `6month`, `12month`, `overall`, `topalbums` and `lovedtracks`.
Feedback
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Thanks for tips on targetting a blank page… worked a treat.
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@Grant — some html got lost in the code
The javascript first adds temp covers, and when the data from last.fm is received, it replaces them with the actual images and text. You are changing the code for the temp covers. See the function _showCover for the code you need.
Hey, great plugin! I was wondering if there’s a way to get the artist/song info in plain text next to the covers, rather than in the image title? Is it possible, and if so, how could I go about doing it?
Finally a LastFM plugin which works for me, many thanks!!
Hi Jerome,
Fantastic plug-in. I set it up in my new tumblr at grantcuster.tumblr.com. I wanted to add a gradient overlay to give the covers a little more depth. I dug in to the .js file and added a span overlay that worked great, but because it’s positioned on top of the image the image’s title tag no longer appears when you hover over an album. I think this could be solved if I could place the album title as an an attribute on the anchor tag, rather than the image. But unfortunately I think I’ve reached the limit of my javascript abilities and I don’t know what variable to use or exactly where to place it.
Here is the part of the js file that I edited:
_logStatus(‘adding temporary cd covers’);
var _img, _li, _span;
for (var i = 0; i < _count; i++) {
_li = jQuery('’).attr(‘style’, ‘display: inline-block;’);
_a = jQuery(‘‘).bind(‘click’, lastFmRecords.dontFollowLink).attr(‘href’, ”).appendTo(_li);
_span = jQuery(”).appendTo(_a);
Thanks!
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Hi! Thank you for js widget! it works wonderfully. I’m curious if there is a way in the javascript version to make all the album covers the same size (i.e. small)
Hi,
I really love your plugin, but I have one little problem. The mouseover that shows the albumtitle and artist works on my website only on the first cd . If I move the cursor above another cover nothing happens. That error only appears in firefox, chrome and IE work fine.
Any ideas?
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Hello, how can I resize the images? Right now some covers are large and others are medium. I checked the source and it’s loading some from Amazon and others from Last.fm. I’d love to have them all in one size.
PS: I’m not using WordPress but your JS
Thank you
Hi there, thank you for your well designed widget, however I’m having a tiny problem with it in IE7 & Safari, but it works perfectly in Firefox.
In IE / Safari a little image box appears above the widget. It’s the little red x the appears if it’s a wrong link to an image or something. Not sure if there is something in the code that I could tweak? If so how do I access this (I downloaded it via the plugin)? I’m currently using V3.0 of WP.
Any help much appreciated
Hi Steph, back from my 2nd holiday
I’m on a Macbook, so can’t find the little red x. I’ll go and check on a Windows computer later this week.
Hi,
Love the plugin, I’m having issues with changing the period.
No matter what I change it to it always shows the same ten images.
I’m using this outside of wordpress, here is my code:
lastfm.js:
var lastFmRecords = (function() {
// private, reachable through public setters
var _user = ‘c_leckie’;
var _period = ‘lovedtracks’;
var _count = 6;
var _styletype = ”; // can be highslide, lightbox
var _refreshmin = 3;
var _placeholder = ‘lastfmrecords’;
var _defaultthumb = ‘http://cdn.last.fm/depth/catalogue/noimage/cover_85px.gif';
var _debug = false;
var _gmt_offset = ‘+1′;
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
var _config = {
// last.fm username
username: ‘c_leckie’,
// number of images to show
count: 10,
// period to get last.fm data from
period: ‘lovedtracks’,
// when to get new data from last.fm (in minutes)
refresh: 1,
// difference between your timezone and GMT.
offset: 1
};
lastFmRecords.init(_config);
});
[ lastfmrecords | overall | 10 ]
Any ideas?
Thanks!
excuse my late reply — holiday season
@Tiffany: the images and their links are added at lines 219 and 237 (current version) of the javascript file. You could try adding
.attr(“target”,”_blank”)
just before the last semicolon of these lines. Nice touch, I’ll put it on my list of possible options for the plugin.
@skiddysmith: you would need completely different code to do this, as the current version of my plugin uses javascript to display the covers, so the list of artists is never saved in WordPress.
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Hiya!
Thanks for last.fm records…..it’s great! I’m using it on my WordPress site, but not as a plugin. Wondering if there’s a way of having the links (album covers) open in a new window?
eg. target=”_blank”?
hello! thanks for this awesome plugin! i am currently looking to edit or create my own plugin for last.fm which would have a weekly snapshot of top artists within a post which would hopefully automatically update or which i would post each week at a specific time. i see that you have the weekly option but it stays current to the most recent 7 days not a specific date range… is it possible to edit the code for a specific date range? if not, do you know of any way to accomplish this?
thanks for yr help!
Hee, misschien een domme vraag maar waar staat het javascript in de zip-file? Alvast bedankt!
Groetjes, Mirthe
Dag Mirthe, de javascript zit in het bestand last.fm.records.js. Als je de code die als voorbeeld in deze pagina (zie boven) kopieert en aanpast waar PATH/TO staat, werkt het. Laat je weten of het gelukt is?
Hey Jeroen,
already figured it out by myself by using your css definitions in the wp plug-in php file – everything works fine now but thanks for the offer!
BTW, very nice work and thanks for sharing it!
Steffen
Hey, still alive?
One question: the hover effect on my non-wordpress website doesn’t work at all – any ideas .. so do I maybe need some additional css definitions?
Beside, the example code you posted for non-wordpress websites is wrong – it misses the “});” in the end – correct version is:
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
var _config = {
// last.fm username
username: ‘USERNAME’,
// number of images to show
count: 5,
// period to get last.fm data from
period: ‘overall’,
// when to get new data from last.fm (in minutes)
refresh: 1,
// difference between your timezone and GMT.
offset: 1
};
lastFmRecords.init(_config);
});
Hi Steffen, yes I’m still alive. Started my own business and getting used to that and all
Thanks for pointing out the missing “});”, I corrected that error.
The css is for a WordPress sidebar, so it could be you need to change the element id’s and/or classes. If you send me the url of your page I could take a look.
Hi,
I want the script to work 2 times on the same page with different lastfm usernames. I tried a little to edit the js but never got it to work.
Can you tell me which parts I need to edit to make it work 2 times on the same page?
Thanks!
Hi Nubie, current version needs too many changes for what you want. I have it already on my todo list.
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@chris — looking at your code a 2nd time: do you have a closing ) at the end that you didn’t paste here, or is it missing in your page? Script won’t work without it!
@brittany — nice idea.
@joe, @gabriele — i don’t think Tumblr let’s you add scripts to your page. If someone knows otherwise, I’d like to hear that too!
@chris — seems your testpage isn’t available anymore. Script looks ok, you could try adding
debug: 1
to the config, and check the javascript console in your browser for errors.
I am trying to get this to work in my non-wordpress website, and nothing seems to work.
I have the scripts called in the header, and where I want it to be placed.
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
var _config = {
// last.fm username
username: 'the_abhorcosm',
// number of images to show
count: 8,
// period to get last.fm data from
period: '3month',
// when to get new data from last.fm (in minutes)
refresh: 1,
// difference between your timezone and GMT.
offset: 1
};
lastFmRecords.init(_config);
That’s basically what I have, with all the extras taken out.
I’m trying it at http://www.chriscubellis.com/test
Any help appreciated,
Chris
Hey Jeroen. I’m trying to put the app in my web page of tumblr and I can’t do it! I’m a little stupid with codes, can you help me?
Big Hug.
Hi Jeroen,
I really like the simplicity of your plugin.
I’m wondering if you’ve considered the functionality I’m trying to find.
Instead of a sidebar widget, I’d like to automate a weekly post that shows the album covers of music I’ve listened to that week. I’m thinking just a single row, but I imagine other people might want to display more.
That’s all, a single post sent to a specific category with the same thumbnail width and count options you currently have in the plugin.
If this is something you might implement for your next update please let me know. I think it’d be a great addition.
Thanks!
Brittany
How do I get the thumbnails to be centered in the sidebar and not pushed left? Thanks.
Usually, these things are a combination of the stylesheet in the theme you use and the stylesheet of my plugin. I looked at your theme and you could try adding
.widget_lastfmrecordswidget { margin-left: 25px; }
to the stylesheet. Try a different number if it’s not looking ok.
Hey Jerome,
Any idea why the covers on my site get squashed on hover-over? Super weird. This has happened for the last few versions of the plugin.
http://kenotic.net/
Hi Hunter, the stylesheet of your theme has a line
#sidebarLeft img { max-width: 100%; }
The result of this style is that the images get squashed. Two solutions: you can change the max-width, or you can select the plain css in the plugin settings. It only happens with the fancy hover effect.
And sorry for not answering earlier, but your comment was filtered as spam by WordPress…
Hello,
Ive been searching through the comments and other discussion forums and I cant seem to find out why mine isn’t working at all. http://wesleymiles.com/wordpress. I just get the text on my page. I call jQuery and updated the settings. Any help would be mega great!
Thanks in advance.
Wes
Hi Wes, the plugin only looks for the [...] code in WordPress pages and posts. So if it is in the static html, it won’t be replaced.
If your template is using widgets, you can add the code through the widgets screen.
Hope this works for you!
Hello!
I can’t get this widget to work on my tumblr, I wanted to add it to my left hand sidebar and show 4 of the recently listened albums. Thought it would a nice aesthetic addition to my tumblr. Let me know if you can help!
- Joe
Heh, my bad, I forgot to set my username in the settings. Thanks anyway!
Hi Brad, happens to the best of us! Thanks for using my plugin.
Hi, I installed your plugin but when I insert the code [lastfmrecords|recenttracks|4], I see just that on the page, not the images of recent tracks.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
For reference this is the correct way to update your theme to work with jquery plugins:
http://digwp.com/2009/06/including-jquery-in-wordpress-the-right-way/
Hi Jeroen, and thank you for a great plugin.
I want to made my list of recent tracks without album covers – #Artist# – #Songname# played #time#. As title in img tag in your script.
Is it possible using your plugin without hard modifications?
Regards Roman
Hi I am having issues like some others that have posted comments but the resolutions like the jQuery code on the header.php file didn’t seem to work for me. I basically get no cover pictures to show using the widget.
My site is http://www.benducklow.com
I’d really love to get this working! THANKS!!
Hi Ben, Duck,
the code for the plugin looks ok to me. I see an error in the console about jQuery not being defined. And I suspect it has to do with the quotes in the head of your page for the jquery.js file.
Whatever the reason, jQuery is not correctly loaded.
Hi I’m been trying to setup this widget for some time without luck. I’ve browsed through some comments to get some tips and troubleshooting steps but none have worked thus far.
Basically I have the widget enabled but no covers are showing up in my sidebar. I’ve added the “” code into my header.php file for the theme I am using with no luck either.
Anything you can help me out with?
disregard, i think it has fixed itself.
I am getting duplicate submissions/double artwork for every track.
Appears to be working again after I installed a jquery plugin?
Ah, yes — it needs jQuery.
Hi,
Great plugin. I have been using it for about a week now and yesterday it stopped working completely. I still can’t get it to work again? Any ideas? Has the API changed or something? You can check my site at http://www.CalzoHoudini.com
Thanks
Hi Calzo,
I just checked — and it looks ok to me in Chrome and Firefox. Let me know if it happens again — if so, please check for javascript errors on the page. It another javascript has an error, it happens that the cd covers are not shown. Still have to fix that.
Oh dear — comment notification was not working, so found a small backlog. Let’s see.
@matthias: it is in version 1.5.4
@kevin & @raya: your stylesheet is probably clashing with the one I added to the plugin. You can disable it in the settings and write your own.
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Hey there,
are there any new informations or solutions about a recent album option in the period? Thx
Hey Jeroen — Enjoying your plugin!
Just this one thing. When I rollover an album image and the picture zooms in, a piece of the image seems to dissapear behind the border of my table. Is it possible to get it to go over the edge instead of underneath it?
Thanks!
Hi Raya, sorry, I hadn’t seen your comment. Looking ok now — did you fix it yourself?
Hi Jeroen,
I just upgraded to the latest version of the plugin and I’m seeing squashed images. When I do a mouseover, the cd covers also come up as different sizes. I’ve tried removing and reuploading the plugin but that doesn’t seem to fix the issue. Could you take a look at my site – http://thesnarkychef.com and see if you notice anything wrong?
Hi,
Thanks for the plugin, I’ve been using it for ages and really like it! Since upgrading my wordpress (or perhaps since upgrading the plugin to 1.5.3, I’ve been getting this error message where the plugin was previously appearing:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function lastfmrecords_display() in /home/.oreo/ollydenton/electricpig.org/wp-content/themes/Newk2/footer.php on line 23
Any idea how to solve it? Thanks very much!
Hello Olly,
the code you are using has been removed from the plugin as it gave way too many errors for users. Somehow it didn’t work nicely with the WordPress code, and I have never been able to solve it. Glad to hear it was working for you
I have made another option to show the covers, and it will be in the next version of the plugin. You can then add
[lastfmrecords|recenttracks|4]
to any page or post and the plugin will use that to display the covers. I hope to release it after my holidays in two weeks.
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Hi Jeroensmeets
Since I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.8.2 you’re Plugin (I LOVE IT!!) doesn’t work. It seems, that the code I’ve placed in sidebar.php of my theme, interrups with my content.
When I delete this code, the theme works:
Before the update, my website get great with this code and your plugin.
Do you know, what’s wrong? Thanks for help.
greets colorjuice
Hi Colorjuice, the code didn’t come through in your comment, and I can’t see it either in my WP admin. I’ll send you an email.
@jeroensmeets: That would be great. I love this plugin and want to use it again.
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@r-doll: thanks for considering my plugin. You seem to have replaced it with another plugin on your demo site, which makes it quite hard to help you out
@Eight_Quarter_Bit: great! Hope you enjoy it.
@Logistica Lux: I can see the javascript and css has been added to your HTML, so the plugin is working (and configured) ok. I’ll look into the widget thing.
@The House of Husar: sorry you feel that way, but it’s not that I messed up — the folder last.fm is still in your plugins directory.
@Michael: you have no jQuery in your theme. You can solve it by adding
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js’></script>
to header.php in your theme files.
@James: yes I have an idea: putting the [lastfmrecords|overall|60] options back into the plugin is still on my todo list! I had to remove it because it conflicted with new code. It’s already in my dev version, hope to release it before my holidays.
yeah, I have the same issue with the plugin (which I LOVE by the way!! great work!) stopping working after I upgraded to wordpress 2.8.2 last night
Basically the tag looks like its not being recognized, hence not displaying the Album covers.
Config page has the placeholder as lastfmrecords
Tried deactivating/reactivating
Tried replacing the plugin files manually (as opposed to Auto updating)
I’ve added Jquery reference in the Header.php,
I’ve run out of ideas
do you have any?
Cheers, James.
Hi Jeroen, I have an issue in which nothing shows up under the plugin. It’s a widget on my homepage, but nothing appears in the box. My username NguyenM should be valid. Any advice on what I can try?
Sorry to say that you have completely messed up this plugin with the last release. I have removed the the plugin by deleting it from my plugins directory. This did not remove the widget at all and I get this error on my blog…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function lastfmrecords_display() in /home1/husarus/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins
I can’t get rid of this. Very frustrating.
Hi jeroensmeets, no error message during installation. I can config the plugin, but theres no widget for the plugin in the Design / Themes section. I don’t know why. I have tried the installation via wordpress and I have tried to copy the files on the FTP. There was no difference.
That fixed it! I knew it was something simple I’d goobered up. Many thanks for you patience and willingness to troubleshoot other people’s mistakes. Developers with your attitude are a rare commodity.
Hey, this plugin sounds perfect and it seems to work well for most people. But like Jan I’m on 2.8.2 and it doesn’t work for me either.
My demo site is here: http://dollypower.com.
As you can see nothing is coming out in the sidebar and I checked the mark-up and it seems to be an empty div tag…
Are we doing something wrong? Rx
My widget is not available anymore?! I can’t select a widget for last-fm records. Deleted the complete plugin installation of last-fm records and rr-installed, but the widget will not appear.
Is there anybody with the same problem? Any ideas to solve it?
Hi Logistica Lux, I can’t see what is going wrong in your admin pages — but on the front of your site everything looks ok. Did you get an error message when you activated the plugin?
Hey, love your plugin!
I’m having some trouble getting any artwork to display. I’ve already added the jquery line to my header.php file, and am not receiving any javascript errors, I’ve configured my last.fm username in the settings, added the widget to the sidebar, etc. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Hi Greg, you have set the option for ‘placeholder’ in the options to ‘what I am listening to’. This placeholder is an internal name that is used in the HTML and should only be changed if it conflicts with the rest of your page. Plase set it back to the default ‘lastfmrecords’ (without the quotes) and it’ll probably work.
I’ll add a comment about this on the options page.
Hi Jeroen,
I bloody love your plugin.
However, it stopped when I recently updated to 1.5.3.
Though the title of the widget is visible, the cover images are not.
Would you mind taking a look at it?
It’s in my Third Subsidiary Aside.
Yours,
Tom
Tom, thanks! I took a look and saw a javascript error on your site, probably caused by another plugin. And the big problem with javascript: when it encounters an error, it stops all scripts on a page. The error I see is
Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [@rel*=flickr-mgr]If you fix this, you have a good chance of seeing album covers appear.
Jeroen,
I just updated to the latest version, and I’m getting squashed images when hovering over the last.fm album covers. My styling css seems identical to yours here on this site; would you take a quick look at the behavior on my site and see if anything comes to mind as to what might be wrong?
Hi Hunte, such a beautiful site you have! Thanks for using my plugin — or maybe I should say ‘plugins’, as it seems you have some old plugin code around. Could you try removing the plugin folder completely and re-installing?
I have changed the locations of the main files in the folder, per WordPress guidelines and I guess you have the old php file still on your server.
Hmm… stopped working after updating to 2.8.2?!
Sorry Jan, I need some more info before I can help you out!
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Hey!
I found some errors names last and last.fm now. Sorry.
It says “lastfm is not defined”
javascript:%20lastfm
Thanks again!
-Fredrik
Fredrik, took another look at your site and it seems to be working now. Let me know if you feel the same
Hello again!
I’ve tested what you said earlier.
But I cant find anything particular for this plugin that’s wrong.
I get a lot of error messages about styles and load-style.php.
Thank you.
– Fredrik
Hello Fredrik, as you went back to version 1.4.1, I cannot check what’s happening exactly on your site. If you know how, you can check the console in your browser (Firefox: Tools menu >> Error console) for errors, if any. Version 1.5 and up of my plugin write log messages there.
See here for more info on the error console: http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/introducing-the-firefox-error-console/
Thanks for the great plugin. Just one request: the hover effect as an option, not default.
Greetings.
Version 1.5.3 corrected the thumbnail width. Thank you very much. The hover effect is a very nice addition. There’s one small issue: The thumbnails don’t show the full cover, only a part of it. In other words: The thumbnail size given in the options crops the cover, but doesn’t “shrink” it to the desired size. Hope this can be changed.
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First of all, i really like the idea of this widget, but I’ve been having problems with the installation. After all Installation steps were completed, I failed to find the widget in the Widgets section of my WP-MU 2.8. Also, I wanted to ask if it was possible for one to display group charts instead of user charts.
Thanks,
Gustavo.
Gustavo, this plugin has not been tested on WP MU yet. Group charts is on my wishlist but will have to wait for maybe version 1.6 or so.
As of Last.fm Records 1.52, and still with 1.5.3, I’m getting no output from the plugin.
Adam, you need jQuery for the new version. I’ll add a check for it and if it is not used by your theme, I will include it. Look for version 1.5.4, available in the next couple of days!
Lucy, Fredrik, Markus: you all are right — and I completely missed it. I have fixed it and sent version 1.5.3 to the WordPress Plugin Directory. It should be available soon.
Thanks for taking the time to let me know!
Version 1.5.2 is not showing the covers in the specified width. It always uses 85px (like in your sidebar here on your website). Also, for each recent track a cover is shown, while version 1.4.1 summarized all the recent tracks of the same album to only one entry. I went back to 1.4.1.
Hello!
I have the same problem as Lucy.
And I’ve tried to change the value for “Thumbnail width” in the options. But nothing happens.
Like Lucy, I would like to have two columns and three rows of covers.
Thanks!
– Fredrik from Sweden
Hello, I love your plugin!
Still I have a problem.
How can I limit the image size of the thumbails to – let’s say – 50 px?
I use it in my sidebar and I would like to have two thumbnails next to each other.
Would be great if you check my site and tell me if you have any idea.
Cheers
Hello Lucy, if you install the latest version of Last.Fm Records, you can go to Settings > Last.fm Records in WP Admin and set an image width there. NB. you have to set ‘Use stylesheet’ to Yes for this to work.
Just as Steve mentioned earlier (http://jeroensmeets.net/lastfmrecords/#comment-2770) after months of using it without an issue, suddenly with 1.5 the plugin stopped working and the list on my main page (www.arroyero.es) was empty. With 1.5.1 all I am getting now is the list of the recently played tracks instead of the albums of last week as I had it setup. Obviously a list of several identical covers is not particularly nice to see
regards and thats for this fantastic tool. BTW have you noticed that the comments date appear as “Posted %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p” instead of the actual values?
The latest updated to your plug-in doesn’t seem to work for me. I was displaying records in my footer and calling them up by using PHP lastfmrecords_display(); after upgrading to that latest version my site renders right up to the point of that command and then stops.
Any clue as to why this is happening, I’ve downgraded in the meantime.
Cheers
I was having a problem with this plugin, having upgraded to WordPress 2.8, which gave me the following error:
The plugin lastfm-records/last.fm/last.fm.php has been deactivated due to an error: The plugin does not have a valid header.
I couldn’t see anything wrong with the header so I tried moving last.fm.php up a folder so that it sits in lastfm-records, instead of in the sub-folder last.fm. This fixed the problem.
Just wondering if there’s any flexibility on where the artwork is pulled from? Amazon usually doesn’t have artwork for the stuff I’m listening to or returns the wrong artwork entirely.
Hi, did i miss something or is there a way to display top albums or last albums played and not songs? Im getting all the same covers up if i play a few tracks from a single album hehe.
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hello,
Very nice and simple to use last.fm records plug-in. Everything works great, but for some reason the album covers look pixelated or overly compressed. Is there a reason or fix for that?
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Hello,
I like the plugin but it doesn’t seem to update. I’ve had the same 6 album covers even though my Recent Tracks have been updated in Last.fm.
I manually cleared the cache, and it made the behavior worse (instead of displaying 6 album covers, it displays 3 for a period of time, then the other 3 come back). I am on WP 2.7 …
Do you know why I’d have this sort of issue?
Thanks,
~daleF
It seems on my site when it shows the artwork it gives the wrong url.
EX. when you go to click the album/ artwork you get my url: http://www.triumviratedesigns.com/www.lastfm.com...
like that for EVERYTHING.
If you know what is causing this it would be appreciated for the help, i looked through your plugin and could NOT find where your html generator really was and how it was recalling my siteurl.
thnx again
I’ve been using this plugin for awhile (which is superb btw) but now decided I want to use some custom artwork to display on my homepage. Nothing fancy, just some covers with a little more gloss to them.
I dont know if its the lack of sleep or what but I could of sworn there used to be an option to add in your own artwork for missing covers? Am I wrong or am I thinking of a different plugin?
If not how would one go about adding custom work, deleting the cache and then adding them into it manually?
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Hi, I find your plugin very useful, I like it!
I have a small problem. How can you see from this image http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9436/srqkt5.jpg the covers are on the left of the column. I want put it in the center, but i’m not able to edit the plugin; so can you help me?
How would I go about having the links (album covers) open in a new window?
eg. target=”_blank”…
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Is there a way to open the links in a new window/tab. (ie. target=_blank)?
hi, this issue im experiencing is that i can’t activate the plugin. using wp 2.7 any suggestions?
hi i get this error message when i activate the plugin:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/2/d104836228/htdocs/pranabody/wp-content/plugins/last.fm/last.fm.php on line 17
the theme i have was designed especially to have your plugin in the footer, so maybe im doing something incorrectly.
any help would be appreciated.
all the best
nathalie
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Right, this is a little bit embarrassing, I just hadn’t upgraded the plugin to the most recent version. Now it works flawlessly.
Am I right in assuming this doesn’t work on WordPress 2.7? I’m asking because it worked up until I upgraded?
I like the plugin, only thing is that is don’t update frequently. Sometimes i just have to listen for about an hour before the images change. Is this right ?
can i put on blogger as widgets ?
If you mean the admin control panel, i get no errors at all! That’s the spooky thing!
Hi Jeroen, thank you for your fast reply
I’m not sure what you mean by “the console”? Where can i find this and how can i check for errors? [:
Hi Alex, do you have any errors in the console? If jQuery is missing or something else went wrong in javascript, the error is probably ‘RunForCover is not defined’. Let me know!
Hello!
I am using the latest version of your “Run for Cover” widget.
I have php 5 on my server, i added the widget and filled the info. Nothing shows up! Not even an error message! D:
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Hi Jaime, do you know if cUrl or fopen for external urls is allowed on the server your domain is on? If it is, or you don’t know, could you change the line
define(‘DEBUG’, false);
(in most versions it is at line 12) to
define(‘DEBUG’, true);
? This should generate a log-file ‘lastfmrecords.log’ in the last.fm folder when the plugin is active. Please send this file to me and I’ll take a look.
Hi again Heroen:
I’ve been trying to install ‘Last.fm Records’ several times website, but I still don’t know how to make it work.
This plugins need PHP5 and a cache folder that PHP can write files in it. I’ve activated PHP5 in my host and changed the CHMOD of the plugins folder to 775, but the problem remains. That’s why I think the problem is in the php.ini configuration of my host. Do you know what I have to change to make it work? The plugin is activated but I’m afraid the cache folder is still empty.
Also, i’ve find that ithe cache folder has an archive called ‘cache’ that does not have extension. Is that right?
I’m using Wordpres 2.6.2.
Kind regards.
Jaime.
@Nadiyah: hi! Choosing which PHP version you run is usually something done by your webhosting company. Some hosting packages have the option to set it in the admin. This depends on where your site is hosted.
How do we upgrade to v5? Is it something I have to write in my .htaccess? If someone can show me how to do this on my own, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
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I’m running this on my test server for an upcoming theme design and the album covers are extremely blurry. Is there a max width before the blur occurs or is there something wrong in my settings?
Otherwise, I really like the plugin. It updates quickly and functions great.
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Craig, thanks for taking the time to figure this out. I’ll try and fix it in the next release.
Hi Jeroen,
I think ive found the issue with updating the settings redirecting you to the login page.
I think your plugin is referencing the actual directory its stored in, rather than the WP url.
here is the redirect url it gives me when i try to save the last fm settings:
redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmoby.nzpunter.com%2Fmoby%2Fwp-admin%2Fplugins.php%3Fpage%3Dlast.fm.php
note after the domain moby.nzpunter.com
it has the directory structure: moby/wp-admin…
this is incorrect.
WP is installed in root of my moby subdomain.
so it should be referencing
moby.nzpunter.com/wp-admin
not the actual file locations which are
public-html/moby/wp-admin/….
Cheers
Craig
Thx for this plugin.
I love it.
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Just another request for the standalone version to be updated. I’m loving this script. Excellent work.
Kyle, you need PHP5 for this plugin.
Matt, at the moment — no. You could try installing both my plugins: Last.Fm Records and Run For Cover, this could do the trick. There are other plugins as well, but I don’t think they have an option to show covers for different usernames.
I have a joint blog with my fiancée and was wondering if there was a way we could use your widget twice to show each of our accounts. Is there some code or a change we can do to make this happen??
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I keep getting the following error when trying to install the plugin:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/k/y/l/kylesteed33/html/wp-content/plugins/last.fm/last.fm.php on line 17
Are you familiar with this at all?
Thanks.
Hello Angry Young Man — the URL to the song is exactly as Lat.Fm says it should be. The /_/ part is where they sometimes put the album name:
http://last.fm/artist/album/track
Your second question is something I will look into; but as my plugin is not currently on your blog, I cannot check what is happening. Is the plugin on another (secret?) url?
This is an outstanding plugin and I would like to thank you for such a wonderfully accessible addition to WordPress.
I have one problem though. I am using the plugin to show my top 50 favorite songs. I have both enabled and disabled the searching of more images, and it appears that some of the URLs to the songs are incorrect. Here is how they are formatted (as viewed from the source in Safari and Firefox).
http://www.last.fm/music/Ricky+Nelson/_/Never+Be+Anyone+Else+But+You
I don’t understand the /_/ part. Also, oddly enough the links are prefixed with my blog’s page URL: http://xxx.com/blog/influences/
So in the source you see, “http://www.xxxxx.com/blog/influences/
http://www.last.fm/music/Ricky+Nelson/_/Never+Be+Anyone+Else+But+You”
even though the source says href=”
http://www.last.fm/music/Ricky+Nelson/_/Never+Be+Anyone+Else+But+You”
How can I remedy this?
Thanks a lot!
Criscom, this plugin now needs PHP5 since last.fm changed their site and data feeds — the old version no longer works.
You could try out my “other other” last.fm plugin: Run For Cover. For now you need the development version (see under “download”), a new version will be released soon.
Ok. Thanks. I should check the comments first. Is the old version plugin still available since my webhost is still on PHP 4?
I get a Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in line 16 when I updated to the new version 1.4.1. Plugin doesn’t work on my site. Any idea?
It’s a great plugin and I would love to use it. Hope it will be back on soon.
Hi Jos, thanks for your comment. You have to try harder to get me down
I saw the plugin — it looks good.
I don’t wanna get you down or anything, but I started using the iLast.Fm plugin, mainly because this plugin is able to get covers for the weeklyalbumchart regardless of “mbid” tags. Being a long time user, I hope to return some day, thanks.
ps. Maybe there’d be some kind of competition between you two, which will only benefit the users.
Thanks for the reply, Jeroen.
Ever since I started using the plugin, I’ve always had the image width in my settings at 85px — only changed it to a smaller value (68px to be exact), a couple of days ago.
@Ashley and @Rose — it seems a lot of images in the feeds are 64px. But to make sure: did you change the image width from 64px to something bigger in the settings? If so, it’s a good idea to clear the cache, as it could contain small versions of the cd covers.
Hi Jeroen,
I’m having the same problem as Ashley, all the images come in as 64px wide. I’ve had to adjust the size of images on my site so they don’t look so bad :
Somehow my post from last night didn’t make it into the blog. So here once again:
THNX Jeroen, I’ll check back soon to see if the new standalone version is finished.
I played around a little with 1.0.3 and the Template “CoverFlow” from “OrangeCD Catalog”. The result is support for “user.gettopalbums” or “library.getalbums” and the HTML output is a little more “styled” -> you can check it out under http://www.nexttry.com/last.fm
If you’re interested in the (very quick & dirty) PHP code, let me know i…
Ok, some catching up after my holidays:
@Thornton: thanks for adding your solution; I will try and find the reason for this error.
@Eric: the widget title is the only setting that is not on the options page. It can be set under Design >> Widgets and then selecting Last.Fm Records.
@Ady: are you using the last version of the plugin?
@Ashley: I went to your site and all the images from amazon seem to be 160px or bigger. Did it fix itself, or did you find a solution? Maybe it can help other people.
@Ben: the weekly period is the only data feed from last.fm that doesn’t have image information for the cds — very strange. This is why I have to use the mbid tag to find the correct image.
@DRNKMNKY: it’s in the process of being worked on!
Hey!
First of all: great script, thank you very much!!! The standalone version works for my just fine with PERIOD set to “recenttracks” or “weekly”…
As Jakub Steiner mentioned, an update of the standalone version would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thank you very much and keep up the good work!
Greetings
DRNKMNKY
Question
For the WeeklyAlbumChart, do the “mbid” tags for the album have to be populated in order for the images to appear?
Because right now only those with mbid data show up, which are few.
Thanks
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Thanks for this awesome plugin, I’ve been using it for a while now on my sidebar. A quick question though:
I recently decided to show larger album covers, but for some reason the images it’s fetching from amazon are only 64px. So if I have my site showing 80px images, it stretches the small file and is unsightly. I see that your album covers are often over 100px, so why am I only getting tiny images?
The plugin is not working after last Last.fm update. I have tried to reinstall it, delete all the cache data and I am getting no error with silent output. I checked the cache directory and got there:
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 0 2008-07-26 23:07 cache
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 6 2008-08-11 18:24 70m45.08081118.recenttracks.list
-rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 6 2008-08-11 18:23 70m45.080811.3month.list
cat 70m45.080811.3month.list
a:0:{}
Think that permissions are fine, please could you try to help me?
I just have one question, how do you change the Title of the Sidebar Widget from “last.fm records” to something else. I tried messing around with the .php file but to no avail was unsuccessful.
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Hello Jeroen,
I have pinpointed the problem.
For economical reasons, I am running several domains off of one hosting account using domain forcing through htaccess.
I had my WP settings set to:
http://www.bentspud.com/wp/ as the location of my WP installation
In reality, though, the WP folder is inside the bentspud folder of my htdocs (htdocs/bentspud/wp).
When I changed my WP settings to:
http://www.bentspud.com/bentspud/wp/
…I was able to update my LastFM settings successfully.
But now I am experiencing the login problem with the other plugins, etc.
Anyhoo, just thought I’d let you know.
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I tried it on Safari, MSIE and Firefox. All return the same result. The wp-login.php page is constantly being called up when I try to update the settings, and it keeps asking me for my password.
Strangely, none of the other WP plugins I have installed are manifesting this problem. :-
I’ll keep poking around. Maybe it’s just my site. LOL
OK, all solved:
http://www.holster.co.uk/more
The plugin was giving me the line 17 error when I tried activating it, but this was because I was running PHP4 and the plugin now requires PHP5.
My web hosts still run PHP4 for compatibility, but PHP5 is also actually enabled, just not by default. I think a lot of hosting actually does this.
You can force a PHP script to use v5 if you use a .php5 extension instead of .php, problem is, WordPress can’t then actually see it so you can’t activate it. It only recognises .php files as plugins.
The answer that worked for me was to force my site to run on PHP5, by adding this line to the .htaccess file at the root of my site:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
This runs all PHP files sitewide in PHP5, including Last.fm Records, which means it works again and in my case, it hasn’t broken anything else.
Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem…
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@Thornton: if the error is in my plugin I’d look for incorrect data submitted in the form, but I doubt that’s it. De you have non-alphanumeric characters in your last.fm username?
Otherwise I’d try another browser to see if that fixes your problem. Let me know if you need help with this!
Hi Jeroen,
Thanks for a wonderful plugin. I just have one question: I tried to change the settings of the plugin, but when I click on the Update button, it takes me back to the login page and asks me to login (eventhough I am already logged in). Even if I enter my password, it just keeps taking me back to the login page. Any ideas?
Thanks for the reply Jeroen and thanks for all your efforts! It’s a stunning plugin – I think that is why it is so popular!
@Jos, if I go to your last.fm feed for last week, it is indeed empty. Sorry, can’t show something that last.fm doesn’t supply!
Thanks for the plugin, longtime user, but I can’t seem to get covers for the “last week” period with 1.4.1. Any ideas on that. Josdigital is my last.fm name and josdigital.com is my blog. Thanks.
@Tevaburns, I’ll post an update on my front page, as I just sent version 1.4.1 to wordpress.
Jeroen Love the plug-in, any way to get it to display band and album name next to the cover art?
The new version works perfectly, and with the new functionality is exactly what I wanted when I first installed the last version. Thanks for releasing it so quickly.
For those who have issue with PHP 5, you should be upgrading as that release has been out for a long time, is stable and more secure. Plus the PHP dev team announced that support for PHP 4 ended as of the last day of 2007. If your host hasn’t upgraded, or hasn’t set you up with an option to easily switch from 4 to 5, now may be a good time to reevaluate that.
Thanks again Jeroen, your plugin rocks!
An update of the standalone version would be greatly appreciated.
ah… uploaded it again, now it works again
keep up the great work =)
@E(mm): you’re right, it did. As I was receiving a lot (and I mean A LOT) of mail telling me the plugin wasn’t working anymore since last.fm changed its site, I rushed out this new version. To do so, I had to disable some old stuff as it got in the way.
I made a todo list and plan to add the items in the next releases.
Jeroen, did the plugin not use to have words and album titles as well? I liked that feature – did you do away with it?
php5? Bye.
Got it working after I upgraded to PHP 5, thanks!!
hey! first of: great addon, i love(d?) it.
when i did the update it also showed up with the error in line 17.
i did upgrade the server to php5, but the addon doesnt show up in the list any more. deleted the folder, uploaded again.. nothing (also not in the deactivated-list).
u have any hint?
@Richard, that’s unexpected. I’ll mail you to see if we can find out what’s happening here.
The old version is broken, because of the changes on last.fm.
Hey, just grabbed version 1.4 — thanks very much, it seems to work much better. More to play with tonight!
Ok, thx. Good to know. Just change my .htaccess in the way my hoster told me, and now its working fine. Great!
Hmm, tried to upgrade but I’m getting the same message as pasQualle so it’s broken for me. Thing is, my hosting account cPanel gives my PHP version as 5.2.6 so I’m not sure what I can do about it…
…if I have to go back to the older version, can I still download that? Thanks for the continued development!
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@pasQualle: sorry, you need PHP5 on your server to use the new version of the plugin. If you get this message, you’re still on PHP4.
I really like your plugi, but the new 1.4. version causes the following fatal error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in …/wp-content/plugins/last.fm/last.fm.php on line 17
Last.Fm Records…
This plugin shows cd covers on your WordPress weblog. It connects to last.fm and grabs the list of cds you listened to recently and tries to find the cover images at last.fm. To speed things up, it only fetches these data once a day and keeps a local c…
Happy user here too! Can’t wait for you to get the new version sorted, thanks for the effort.
Thanks a lot Jeroen, I was kind of wondering what I was doing wrong since I installed your wonderful plugin yesterday, and all I was getting was this frustrating “No images to display” message.
Can’t wait to try the new version !
Thanks to you all! It seems the current version of my plugin is performing pourly as a result of all the changes at last.fm, so I stopped sending out beta versions as it took most of the available time.
I’m working as fast as I can to release the new 1.4. I’ve installed it on a couple of my sites and it seems to work ok.
WordPress will let you know when it’s available.
@Neil: good point, thanks. I’ll take a look at it for the next version.
@Richard: you’ll be pleased to know that this idea has been implemented in the upcoming version.
I’m interested in trying out the test version. I’m having the same problem as Josh, and when I do get something to show up, it shows the album twice.
OK — one correction to the above. Your plugin did NOT actually do anything for me when it was buried down inside the wrapper directory “lastfm-records”.
It turns out, I got the working track info from the “Last.fm for WordPress” plugin, which provides a very simple plugin with no options page. I got confused because the names were similar and the version numbers happened to be identical (1.3.1). Oops!
In short — while your plugin works as advertised if manually installed as outlined in your directions, it doesn’t work with the Plugin Central auto-installer due to the extra folder. Sorry for the confusion!
from me thanks, too! this is a great plugin. i have searched very long for a good last.fm plugin and now i have it.
i have a little requestion. i have put the options of last.fm records to “recent tracks” and that work ok, but it refresh the list only each hour. i wish to put it all 10 minutes to refresh. can you help me, please?
Jeroen –
First, thanks for the plugin. Way cool. I’m looking forward to the 1.4 beta so the images start showing up.
I did, however, find an interesting “packaging” issue for the plugin. The way you have your SVN structured, I got some puzzling results. Here’s why:
The main plugin directory is “last.fm”, which should be the highest-level folder in your distribution ZIP file. But instead, you wrapped the “last.fm” folder and your README file in a top-level folder called “lastfm-records”.
The result for me when I first installed it AUTOMATICALLY with Plugin Central (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-central/) is that the Settings page for your plugin was completely unavailable, but I could actually find a Widget. I configured it, and it found track names and displayed them as text.
THEN…I realized what was going on once I looked at my host via the terminal. I moved the “last.fm” directory up one level and removed the wrapper folder of “lastfm-records”. Now I could find the Settings menu once I got everything re-activated. Cool!
Anyway, I just wanted you to know since this might cause others some issues, especially if WP adds a future feature that provides auto-installing plugins from the Extend database in the future. This Plugin Developer FAQ entry might explain what’s going on:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/faq/#subdirectory
Finally, I would suggest a move of the Last.FM Records config page OUT of the Plugins menu and INTO the Settings menu. This is more compliant with WP guidelines (http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus#Menus_and_Submenus), and also makes it easier to find for users.
OK, this sounds a bit critical, but really — this plugin is exactly what I’ve been looking for for a long time. Thanks a million.
Hi, it’s great to see you are working on the next version! I’m running into the exact same problem as Josh – I can’t get the last three months (no images to display error is shown), though I can get Recent Tracks. I’m running WP 2.6. I’d be quite happy to test your next version. I don’t have any custom covers uploaded at the moment, so that won’t be a big deal.
Thanks!
Great plugin, perhaps the best WP plugin I use. Also excited to hear there’s an update coming.
One request: Can it handle an empty feed differently? At the moment Last.fm’s Recent Tracks feed clears if you don’t listen to anything for a week. I’ve just come back from holiday, so my website is showing nothing here:
http://www.holster.co.uk/more
At the moment you can put a message in to show if it is empty, but can you specify a different feed instead?
For instance I’d like to always show recent tracks, but if there are no recent tracks I’d like to default to showing the last six months, so that there is never nothing shown.
Ideally, I’d like to always show the same number of covers, so if I show 6 covers and I only have 2 recent tracks to show, the remaining 4 are drawn from the alternative feed (ie the last six months)
Sound like a good idea?
Just a suggestion, great plugin, and if something like this were to be implemented, I would happily donate to the project!
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thanks for the compliment! I’m always happy when users of the plugin are.
I’m working on a new version, and have re-written the caching system. If you have uploaded images yourself, it’s better to wait. If not, I can send you the test version, to see if that does it for you.
The only thing left is to convert the covers that have been uploaded from the plugin options page to the new filenames in the cache (if this doesn’t make sense to you, please ignore, it just means I have to write one more function before releasing this new version).
thanks for an awesome plugin! it’s still running on 2.6; but it won’t gather the last 3 months’ records, the only thing i can get to work is “last week” and it sometimes says “no images available.” Any plans on updating?
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