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Spotify profile widget

Leon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:26:11 +0000

So @spotify have released a new version of their desktop based application that adds a stack of social features.

One of these is a user profile which displays your playlists, aswell as your top played artists and tracks.

I created a simple WordPress plugin that enables you to easily add a button in your sidebar that links to your Spotify profile.

The widget has two options – one for your username, and the other for the text you wish to be displayed on the button.

To install follow these steps:

Download the plugin
Upload to wp-content/plugins
Activate
Customise the widget by adding your username and the text you would like displayed in the link

This is a simple widget with a simple function. If you’d like more features, just ask and i’ll see what I can do!

Update 2 – Last.fm/Spotify mashup

Leon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:16:00 +0000

Here is the video of the mashup in action. I’m thinking up a new idea using the Last.fm api that will hopefully work better. As this was just a proof of concept it won’t be released any time soon.

Another Last.fm/Spotify mashup

Leon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:55:23 +0000

A month or so ago I hacked the last.fm for wordpress plugin to allow for integration with Spotify. The basic idea was that the plugin would pull in your recently played tracks and then allow users to open those tracks directly within Spotify by clicking on a green note.

A had a spare two hours this morning so decided to see what I could make in that time.

This new mash-up is a little different. You give it your Last.fm username and it will go and find your top artists. It then uses this to find the top tags for each of those artists. It then orders the tags by the amount of times they occur across your top artists and displays the result to you in a slider window. The images are pulled from Last.fm and they are for the top artist for each tag. The image resolution is based on the quality of the image on the Last.fm servers.

I used the Last.fm PHP API available from here as the basis for the mashup. There were quite a few sample scripts and I hacked a some of these together to get the functionality required. The slider part came from here.

You can view it by heading here and putting in your username. Please be patient as it takes a while to load everything in. Update! This keeps crashing my server so I will post a video of a locally run version.

I can’t wait for Spotify to release their own API as there would be the possibility to generate Spotify playlist based on your ‘loved’ tracks on Last.fm for example.

Last.fm/Spotify WordPress Widget

Leon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:02:16 +0000

I have created the WordPress widget that displays recent tracks from last.fm with the ability to open the tracks in Spotify. Read more and check it out here - http://www.blog.sizzla-media.co.uk/plugins/ Hope you like it. Any feedback add them to the comments (…)

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Add Spotify to WordPress

Leon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:38:06 +0000

I have hacked the Last.fm for WordPress plugin from here to search Spotify. At present I don’t plan to release the plugin but will do shortly after I have tidied up the code.

You can test it out by firstly downloading Spotify from here. Then simply click on the green note icon next to the track in my sidebar (under last.fm) to launch Spotify and play the track.

An image of my Last.fm side bar

There is no API for Spotify yet but a bit of digging around in the Greasemonkey script enabled me to send the track name and artist to a search within the Spotify app. Hopefully an API will be available soon which will allow me to do a lot more with the great service.

The icon is taken from the Spotify/Last.fm greasemonkey hack.

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