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If you blog about music and wish to add information about the album you are viewing without having to source details such as album art, track listings or an album summary, why not use shortcode to do the hard work for you.
Simply install the plugin, add a Last.fm API Token by following the instructions on the admin page and add the shortcode [album artist=”anArtist” album=”anAlbum”] to insert an array of information about the given album.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Cached using Transient</li>
<li>Styles appearance</li>
<li>Includes an image of the album artwork if it is available</li>
<li>Album artwork is copied to the Media Library to ensure the image is always available when needed</li>
<li>Provides a list of tracks with the track duration</li>
<li>Shows a list of tags, such as Genres and ‘Albums I own’ if the album is marked as owned in the Last.fm account associated with the API key</li>
<li>Provides a publish date, althogh this may be the publish date of a re-mastered edition</li>
<li>Displays a summary of the album as provided by the Last.fm API</li>
</ul>

F13 Last.fm album Shortcode

Add information to you blog about a musical album using shortcode.

Simon Wheatley

This plugin adds a widget to display your upcoming events (gigs) from <a href="http://last.fm/" rel="nofollow ugc">Last.FM</a>, with 
options for displaying full venue details, linking, etc. Events are displayed using valid 
<a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar" rel="nofollow ugc">hCal</a> <a href="http://microformats.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microformat</a> code (makes no 
difference to the display, but plays nicer with the web in general).
This plugin is still in development, but is stable enough that I use it on my own blog. Once other 
people have used it successfully for a while I’ll feel happier labelling it stable.
Please feel free to try the plugin on previous versions of WordPress, I think it may work on 2.2, maybe lower.
Please let me know how you get on.
<h3>Requests</h3>
I’m simply noting requests here, I’ve not necessarily looked into how possible any of these are or how much effort they might require.
<ul>
<li>BUG REPORT: A lot of the timestamps for events aren’t correct therefore, you see “495 months ago.” because it shows a timestamp of 1969 for some reason even though the dates are correct on last.fm. Is there a way you could have it to just display the date instead of trying to calcuate the time until? (Reported by <a href="http://www.deadlydesigns.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mike</a>)</li>
<li>REQUEST: Would it be possible to have the link to last.fm events open in a new window so it will not load over top of the blog? (Requested by <a href="http://www.deadlydesigns.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mike</a>)</li>
</ul>

Last.FM Events

This plugin adds a widget to display your upcoming events (gigs) from Last.FM on your Wordpress blog (using the hCal Microformat).

F13 Last.fm album Shortcode vs Last.FM Events