Last.fm recent tracks Wordpress plugin
I hacked together a simple Wordpress plugin for Last.fm which uses the webservice feed to display the recently played tracks on your weblog. It’s based on the del.icio.us Wordpress plugin and uses a similar layout, the same caching mechanism (to a file in /tmp) and CURL to retrieve the feed.
You can download the plugin here: lastfm.zip
To install simply unzip and copy the lastfm.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Turn it on in your administration panel. And finally call the recent_tracks(<username>) function with your username from somewhere in your template. i.e:
<li><h2><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/tizzle/">last.fm/user/tizzle</a></h2>
<ul>
<?php recent_tracks('tizzle'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
Make sure your webhost has installed the CURL library for PHP though otherwise this plugin won’t work.
If not you could opt to use this modified version of my plugin which uses fopen instead.
Version history:
- 0.5 (16-05-2007) - small fix to account for changes in Lastfm XML format (Thanks Anthony!)
- 0.4 (09-03-2006) - changed caching behaviour and using XML instead of RSS feed
- 0.3 (01-11-2005) - moved UL tag generation into plugin
- 0.2 (01-11-2005) - fixed a caching problem
- 0.1 (01-11-2005) - initial release
November 5th, 2005 at 23:09
Brilliant stuff. However I’m getting problems like this in my sidebar:
Warning: fopen(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 648 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /home/virtual/site480/fst/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 83Warning: fopen(/tmp/last.fm.demwunz.600.cache.tmp): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/virtual/site480/fst/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 83
Think you could help? Cheers buddy.
November 8th, 2005 at 09:55
Tijs;
Ik krijg een error als ik hem wil “activaten”:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:151) in /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:151) in /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:151) in /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:151) in /home/brrt/www/blog/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13
gr,
Bart
November 8th, 2005 at 17:21
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:155) in /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:155) in /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:155) in /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php:155) in /home/vortsekz/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13
As you can tel I know shit all about PHP so I got no idea what that means
November 10th, 2005 at 13:59
The “cannot modify header information” errors are caused by whitespace either before or after the opening: tags. Make sure there are no spaces, line breaks, tabs or anything outside of the php tags and it should work. I guess i better offer a zipped download to make sure the code is copy and pasted correctly.
November 10th, 2005 at 14:07
The “safe mode restriction in effect” error is due to the fact that the plugin tries to write it’s cache file to the servers temporary files directory. On most servers a php script is allowed to do this and you won’t get this error, on some servers you might. To solve this call the recent_tracks() function with the additional parameters for the cache file where the cache file could be an absolute path to a file in /wp-content or any other directory that php can write to.
i.e: recent_tracks( ‘username’, false, 600, ‘/domains/mydomain/wp-content/lastfm.cache’ );
November 15th, 2005 at 22:24
This is rad. Very nice work!
I could really use a Weekly Artist Chart list on my site - any chance you could do another version of this plugin with some of the various other feeds provided?
November 22nd, 2005 at 18:16
Yeah, I was looking for a weekly artist chart as well. I’ve looked at all the audioscrobbler plugins and couldn’t find that functionality. I work as a software developer but unfortunatlely have never programed in PHP before. Maybe I’ll try to give it a shot considering all the logic should be the same … just a different XML feed.
November 22nd, 2005 at 18:31
It is indeed just a different XML feed. Copy paste and changing the node names that you need should do it. When i have the time to work on the plugin a bit more the stuff on the todo list has priority.
November 23rd, 2005 at 02:25
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November 24th, 2005 at 23:38
Awesome plug-in! Works perfectly for me!
A Note to anyone who’s using a linux server, for some reason it’s still case-sensitive (maybe last.fm user a linux server?), so make sure you capitalize your username if it has capitals.
I had to do this, it kept saying no recent tracks until I capitalized my username, then it displayed it!
December 4th, 2005 at 14:43
great plugin, thats what i searched for
December 6th, 2005 at 20:57
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December 8th, 2005 at 15:37
The following gives me division by zero errors:
Recently Played Music:
December 8th, 2005 at 15:43
you linked to a last.fm profile. I take it something is wrong with my plugin on your site? please link to your site instead so i can check what the error is exactly…
December 8th, 2005 at 15:52
Oops!
While fixing my post I figured out the problem. Nice plugin!
December 8th, 2005 at 16:00
So what site are your using it on…? just curious.
December 12th, 2005 at 23:39
Hi tijs.
Can you tell me what might be wrong with my “curl”?
I’m getting this from your plugin:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /home/ignium/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 74
My php was instaled from the repository (i’m using debian), and I also installed libcurl3 and php4-curl… Is a php compilation with the curl option really necessary?
BTW, great plugin
December 13th, 2005 at 14:27
It does seem that the curl functions are only available in PHP when it is compiled with the curl option. I guess curl is not as widespread an option as i thought it was since more people seem to have this particluar problem. It’s something to keep in mind when i ever write another plugin that accesses a webservice.
January 3rd, 2006 at 02:51
hi there, i found your plugin quite easy to implement. is there anyway to make it show only 1 song that was played ? as it’s currently showing 10 songs that was played previously.
January 3rd, 2006 at 20:53
I’m afraid there is no simple option to set the number of songs returned. It returns 10 because the result from lastfm returns 10 songs. You could alter the code to only show the first song that lastfm returns but you’ll have to manually edit the code that transforms the data from lastfm into the list to show on your blog.
January 6th, 2006 at 00:56
I’m getting a 404 error. Any ideas why this might happen?
January 6th, 2006 at 00:57
Sorry should say ‘No recent tracks - 404 error’
January 6th, 2006 at 01:37
Weird… did you modify the code at all? A 404 would signify a page not found as in the page on last.fm containing your recent tracks. I haven’t seen this error before though.
January 7th, 2006 at 01:25
Hmm… I’ll give it another shot and see how it goes.
January 7th, 2006 at 01:54
OK.. here’s the include for the sidebar:
I’M LISTENING TO
I’ve left in there at www.royaltech.net/blog so you could see it.
Didn’t alter the lastfm.php code at all.
January 7th, 2006 at 01:57
Ahh of course it converts the PHP. Anyway, it was the same code.
January 12th, 2006 at 07:38
Heh i also am getting a 404 error.
January 13th, 2006 at 12:59
I got the same 404 error. I haven’t changed anything in the code. Ive only implemented the recent track thing with my username in the sidebar as you described.
My homepage: www.wisser.dk
My last.fm profile: www.last.fm/user/jacobwb
Whats going on :(?
January 13th, 2006 at 13:03
looking into it right now…
January 13th, 2006 at 13:16
I can only reproduce this error by calling the recent_tracks function with a user name that does not exist. So please double check if you called the function correctly. For you jacob it should be:
recent_tracks(’jacobwb’);
I tried it on my own blog just now and it worked fine. If it still doesn’t work after that please reply again.
January 13th, 2006 at 13:55
Et very very odd. Still doesnt work.
www.wisser.dk/php.jpg
January 13th, 2006 at 14:25
Please download the following php script, unpack it and upload it to your webserver.
http://blog.tijs.org/wp-content/files/curltest.php.zip
After uploading open in it in your browser…
i.e.: http://www.yourwebsite.com/curltest.php
…and it will check if the audioscrobbler site is accessible from your webserver with cURL. It should either return “successfully contacted website” or an error message. Good luck!
January 13th, 2006 at 16:14
succesfully contacted websit. But still 404
Cant see wtf im doing wrong. Im not suppose to change anything in the lastfm php file right?
January 13th, 2006 at 16:15
btw im using wordpress v2, but that shouldnt have any effect should it?
January 13th, 2006 at 16:18
Aaaand, im not using it in index.php but sidebar.php. But that shouldnt have anything to do with it either, or what?
.. sorry for the comment spam ;D
January 13th, 2006 at 16:24
- you don’t have to change anything in lastfm.php
- it does not matter where you include it
- wp 2.0; could be it. since this seems to be a recent problem and i haven’t tested my plugins in WP 2.0 yet i am guessing that this is indeed the trouble.
From what i’ve read WP 2.0 has several issues so i am not installing it yet. I hear they have made an halfbaked attempt to make WP web 2.0 and buggered up lots of the interface while doing this. I am waiting with upgrading until i think it’s ready for daily use and i will not upgrade my plugins before then either. Sorry about that…
January 13th, 2006 at 16:37
Its okay. Guess ill return as soon as Wordpress gets a new version on the streets in hope of seeing your plugins updated
January 14th, 2006 at 01:56
Nope.. still wordpress 1.5 here.
January 14th, 2006 at 13:08
really Ben? -damn- did you try the curltest.php file?
January 14th, 2006 at 20:45
Same issue as the others using WorldPress 1.5.2. I tried curltest.php and it “successfully contacted website.”
Blog is here: http://www.loughprices.com/ http://loughprices.com/curltest.php
Also didn’t change aything in lastfm.php, I just added it to the template.
January 15th, 2006 at 12:18
ok, i just tested it on another blog of mine and altough the plugin works if you directly copy&paste the template code example from this post it won’t work (and you get the 404) because the apostrophe’s are not correctly formatted. I missed the fact that Wordpress had formatted these incorrectly but i have changed the code example so that it now uses the correct formatting for the recent_tracks() function call.
Please check your template and make sure that it uses the apostrophe instead of either right or left quotation marks. Let’s cross our fingers that this is the problem
January 15th, 2006 at 18:32
That is the problem and it is fixed! I changed the code to use apostrophes and it works perfectly.
January 16th, 2006 at 23:20
[…] While waiting for the kernel to compile (for the diskless client which is supposed to become the MythTV frontend for my home theatre installation), I added a plug-in for this site that lists the songs I’m listening to right now (or almost). At home, I’m using amaroK which is a very nice media player for Linux (with support for CD covers and lyrics), and at work it’s Winamp. Both can be configured to send song data to last.fm which can then be retrieved by other little utilities just like this plug-in to be integrated into websites and such. It’s not perfect though (I’d like more info like when the song was played, to be able to configure the number of songs to be displayed, to have it display else where), but for the moment it’s quite OK. […]
January 17th, 2006 at 02:41
Looks like I’m sorted with the apostrophe fix too!
January 17th, 2006 at 02:45
Well.. almost.
I now get:
No recent tracks (error 200)
January 17th, 2006 at 02:45
Ooops.. posted too quick.
http://www.last.fm/user/royal618/
…and there’s recent tracks being played.
January 17th, 2006 at 02:55
Nope.. now it works. Nice stuff!
January 19th, 2006 at 00:22
It isn’t showing any recently played tracks. With the sigs it will use anything within like 6 hours, now it is nothing. Is there anyway to make it played my last played tracks?
January 21st, 2006 at 06:26
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January 26th, 2006 at 08:56
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January 27th, 2006 at 05:14
hey, thanx for helpful plugins and i wanna know
how can i display only 5 songs on my site.
cool.
January 27th, 2006 at 22:08
Thanx mate!
Finally a script which is easy to configure and lets me display both of my lastfm-accounts at the same time without having to hack the .php file.
(I guess it’s got something to do with me moving the site to a hotel with curl-support, but anywayz…)
Super!
March 5th, 2006 at 18:46
I get this displayed in page…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: recent_tracks() in /home/daysofspeed/htdocs/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 73
Any ideas people?
March 5th, 2006 at 18:49
OK - solved that - hadn’t switched the plug-in on! Now I have the “No recent tracks (error 200)”…
March 5th, 2006 at 18:59
Sorry to keep coming back and answering myself… solved - created a new profile at LastFM - all working! Thanks for the files etc.
March 5th, 2006 at 22:02
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March 6th, 2006 at 10:12
Just a quicky… when I haven’t _just_ listened to a track I get “No recent tracks (error 200)” - anyway around that? Either by changing the ‘error’ message (as it looks bust as it is) or anyway it can hold the last tracks until replaced? Cheers!
March 6th, 2006 at 15:01
Your quite right, the plugin does not currenlty cache the results so it is dependent on how long last.fm saves the last played list. A 200 ‘error’ means that the new data was received ok so it should not trigger an error but this seems not be implemented correctly yet. Maybe i’ll make an update later this week.
March 6th, 2006 at 21:19
That would be both neat and very much appreciated. Thanks for the work so far.
March 9th, 2006 at 16:25
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March 19th, 2006 at 22:57
[…] I’m proudly to present a new feature: My recent last.fm tracks, which you can find in the sidebar to your left. (Talked about here - thanks to tijs). […]
March 25th, 2006 at 16:33
Hi! I’ve been looking for a plugin like this and am glad to have stumbled upon yours. I have implemented it in the profile section of my site. Your plugin’s quite customizable too, and can easily retrieve other last.fm feeds as well. Thanks for writing this plugin!
March 31st, 2006 at 17:17
Thanx for an excellent plugin to view multiple-user last.fm accounts.
Brilliant!
April 10th, 2006 at 10:22
Works fine here - but I don have one question. Is there an easy way to remove the indentation? Ive lookd at the PHP file and cant work out where this is set. Basically I want the so nges justified left with the title, like the other sidebar menus on my blog
April 13th, 2006 at 03:30
This is a good plug-in; it plays nice with all the other plug-ins on my site, and I am loving it! Thanks for sharing it with us.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:57
james: take a look at the structure of the other menus on your blog. They probably use a structure with UL and LI tags too but use CSS to style the list differently. It may just be a maytter of adding a diiferent class name to the UL tag that surrounds the list of songs.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:22
Hi there - I’m on WP2 and the curltest.php works, but “No recent tracks (error 200)” is all the plugin can produce. The XML file http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/iantheimpaler/recenttracks.xml defintely exists and has songs in it. I’ve used in my page. Any ideas what’s wrong?
April 13th, 2006 at 12:23
Sorry, I copied the php line in where it says “I’ve used in my page” but it ate it
May 6th, 2006 at 22:58
Thanks man. It works perfectly for me. Saved me a little bit of time, as I was about to create exactly this.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:58
how do i go about customising this to retieve other feeds. specifically the weeklyartistchart feed. thanks.
May 8th, 2006 at 13:30
Matthew:
1) you should point to the correct xml feed here:
http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/
2) and then make sure the starttag and endtag functions that handle the xml parsing are changed to handle the new xml format. It may seem daunting at first but it really isn’t that hard.
May 8th, 2006 at 14:45
crikey it’s tough, i’m really not a programmer. oh well
May 26th, 2006 at 21:26
Worked perfectly for me, but just recently stopped updating tracks. I deleted the temp file, and now it just says no recent tracks. I even checked the rss file manually, and its still updating. Anyone else’s break recently too? Or maybe I’m just unlucky…
May 28th, 2006 at 19:11
[…] Personally I’m also very interested in the web-services they offer, that way it’s possible to show your favorite/most recent tracks on your blog, for instance. I was trying a wordpress plugin earlier on, but somehow the PHP installation on this server didn’t allow writing to disk, so I couldn’t cache. I disabled the caching, and it worked, and then it didn’t. It says on their site that if you make more than one request per second your IP will be banned. Possibly I just had a visitor while I was testing and they kicked me off. I’ll try again later. There are also AJAX based plugins, that way the user visiting makes the call. I’ll look into later. […]
May 30th, 2006 at 12:36
random: it still seems to work fine on this blog… did the read/write rights to the temp file change perhaps?
June 3rd, 2006 at 22:42
Now using this on my site. Nice one.
June 4th, 2006 at 21:48
i got it installed and working, but while it displays just fine in IE
the track names are all jumbled in FF
little help?
June 5th, 2006 at 02:30
Last.fm Wordpress Plugin (without CURL)…
This is a complete ripoff of tijs’s plugin, but I’ve replaced the CURL library with the fopen URL wrapper. So it should work with pretty much any PHP install. Of course, it is now marginally less good.
lastfm.zip
Now I’m really going …
June 6th, 2006 at 05:06
Hi,
I just signed up for lastfm, installed the plugin but get “No Recent Tracks error 200″ in my sidebar. When I use “tizzle” instead of my user name, it just says “No Recent Tracks.” Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.
June 7th, 2006 at 13:26
@leevin: no that does not mean anything is wrong. you get the no recent tracks when you use my username since i don’t have any recent tracks. The tracks you are seeing on my blog homepage were cached from a few days back. Try it with a username that has recent tracks on his or her profile on last.fm and see if you still get the error message.
June 27th, 2006 at 21:48
I love this plugin it works perfectly - thanks!
I just have one question: Is there any way to reduce the number of songs displayed? To perhaps, 6 instead of 10, for instance?
July 13th, 2006 at 00:51
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July 21st, 2006 at 11:22
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July 21st, 2006 at 19:57
Hello!
I installed Wordpress on my server, and set up a site. It’s a relly nice piece of software. However, I am missing a piece of functionality, and
couldn’t find a suitable answer for it. Mayou you know a plugin I could use?I need to automatically inserts ads in my posts.And not AdSense ads, but rather HTML snippets defined by me (affiliate links, etc). Let’s say I would insert a tag in my post:
– ad here –
and the plugin would automatically replace it with some HTML code, when the post is displayed on my site.I really don’t need any fancy configuration options etc, just the basic replace functionality.
Do you know a plugin that can handle this?
July 24th, 2006 at 09:21
@lil: you should check out the plugin directory: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PluginDirectory
there’s bound to be something in there that would suit you.
August 7th, 2006 at 02:11
Thanks for writing this - I’ve been looking for a way to do this. Awesome. I hope you don’t mind I’m modifying the plug-in to suit my needs (a bit).
August 8th, 2006 at 13:19
[…] Firstly, complete credit to tijs for the original plugin, allowing you to display your recent tracks on your wordpress blog. I wanted a weekly artists option, rather than recent tracks, and noticed some other people were after the same, so I just changed a few bits and hey presto
[…]
August 8th, 2006 at 13:25
Replaced a few bits and bobs and managed to convert this lovely script into a weekly artists version. Full credit to tijs though - many thanks!
http://theboywonder.co.uk/2006/08/08/last-fm-weekly-artists-wordpress-plugin/
August 12th, 2006 at 23:00
I seem to be having a little trouble with the plugin. It’s been working great for the past 8 months, and suddenly in the past week this error popped up:
Warning: fopen(/tmp/last.fm.Ashex.600.cache.tmp) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/napataor/public_html/chipnick/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 106
I’ve tried deleting the file but i lack removal permissions in /tmp, so I was wondering if you knew what the cause may be.
August 13th, 2006 at 11:51
@ashmed: the error means that you can’t write to your tmp file anymore. this probably means that the settings of your configuration changed in some way, i would ask your hosting company if they can help you out.
August 16th, 2006 at 16:10
[…] Well if that should ever become a problem, I hooked up my audio player of choice to last.fm, which in addition to in theory telling me what music I like based on music I like, will also let me display the last tracks I listened to using this lovely wordpress plugin. It also allows people to take one step closer to becoming a single white female type stalker. […]
August 18th, 2006 at 05:57
thanks
August 21st, 2006 at 23:51
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September 21st, 2006 at 08:40
Fantastic! Thank you for this excellent plugin.
September 21st, 2006 at 22:44
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September 30th, 2006 at 13:09
hi there
Fat Vegan´s page is down so i cant download the plugin- could you (or someone else) please make a mirror for the fopen version
thx a lot
October 4th, 2006 at 01:59
here’s a link on how to create custom block in Hemingway
http://discuss.warpspire.com/viewtopic.php?pid=595#p595
October 7th, 2006 at 23:23
Nice plugin, makes me happy ! …
October 16th, 2006 at 07:08
Thanks… I’ve modified this to get the latest loved songs.
October 21st, 2006 at 18:17
hello tijs! very useful plugin, but can you work it out as it can feed the weekly top artists instead?
would be much appreciated!
thanx a ton!
October 21st, 2006 at 18:26
all the things i found is to change line
$api_url = “http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/$_last_user/recenttracks.xml”;
to
$api_url = “http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/$_last_user/weeklyartistchart.xml”;
maybe there are other changes to be made?
October 21st, 2006 at 20:01
Unless the tags are formatted in exactly the same way you will have to change the end and start tag parser too. It’s a DIY kinda plugin though so you will have to figure it out for yourself.
October 22nd, 2006 at 20:19
hello tijs! since i’m not really into php, i think this will rather be a prob for me to get it changed the proper way! maybe you will do it yerself later cuz i saw many people ask for that
just on the side note, how to disable hyperreference from the track in this plugin? or make them open in the “target=blank” way?
tia!
November 29th, 2006 at 13:49
[…] I was in a geeky mood this morning (am I never not?) and I finally decided to use the Last.fm plugin to put my most recently played tracks in the sidebar. It’s faster than what I had written myself, although that was more web 2.0 so probably a bit cooler. Whatever. I had to modify the plugin a bit and then I decided to use the code to write my own plugin that puts ‘posts I like’ (or something) from Google Reader in the sidebar. I intend to improve the plugin a lot, to make it a lot more customisable for example, and then I’ll add it to the plugin-list. […]
December 4th, 2006 at 22:07
[…] Op Tijs.org vond ik een Last.fm-plugin voor het Wordpress-platform. Als fervent muziekliefhebber en fan van Web 2.0 een leuke aanvulling op deze website. Ik bracht enkele minieme aanpassingen aan het script aan zodat het mijn wensen volledig vervuld […]
January 15th, 2007 at 14:17
[…] During the course of my attempts at finding a solution, I found last.fm and set up an account. The music links that are currently in the sidebar come from “scrobbling” my recently played song to that site, then using a WordPress plugin (from here). It seems to work, but I don’t like keeping another app running continually on my laptop, and it seems a bit convoluted. […]
February 14th, 2007 at 22:06
Hi there
Using recent_tracks(’wr276′); I obtain the “No recent tracks (error 200)” error like other guys. Could you tell me why is that.
Thanks in advance.
February 22nd, 2007 at 07:58
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February 23rd, 2007 at 09:33
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February 25th, 2007 at 12:50
Nice plugin! Thanks for the great work!
March 2nd, 2007 at 08:15
Grat Plugin, Thanks.
March 11th, 2007 at 01:56
[…] last.fm Recent Tracks: Shows my latest tracks on last.fm. This is fed from our Squeezebox mp3 player, so it also shows what Candice is listening to when I’m not home. I’m really not as big a Christina Aguilera fan as that might indicate. […]
March 19th, 2007 at 17:24
Hi! I’m getting errors like this in my sidebar,
Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /www/10/kuvaoume.net/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 111
Warning: fopen(/tmp/last.fm.emeoume.600.cache.tmp) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/10/kuvaoume.net/wp-content/plugins/lastfm.php on line 111
* No recent tracks (error 200)
Thanx pal!
March 19th, 2007 at 17:28
It’s trying to write the cache to the /tmp dir but your host does not allow it. You could create a directory yourself and give it enough write rights. Then change the part of the plugin where it says /tmp into the path to the directory you just made.
good luck.
March 19th, 2007 at 17:56
Thanks alot. It`s work now. keep up the good work:)
May 17th, 2007 at 22:48
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May 20th, 2007 at 08:48
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May 25th, 2007 at 08:04
I have your plugin and it works fantastically. Thank you so much!
May 26th, 2007 at 10:45
[…] I decided that the last.fm image was wank, because it was slow, cludgy, and the text colour didn’t match my links. I have added a plugin that uses good old text to put in a link to each track instead. […]
June 2nd, 2007 at 08:23
I’d love to use this, but it would be great to be able to limit the number to 3 or 5.
June 2nd, 2007 at 14:47
Check the code, even if you don’t know the first thing about programming i’ll bet you can find which line to change the current number of items setting to the one you would like.
June 10th, 2007 at 09:37
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