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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.

kylehotchkiss

So do you want the world to know what you just listened to? Do you want to show it off in your… WordPress sidebar? I know I do! What Last.wp does is 
show a few of the songs you just scrobbled over to Last.fm. It stands out beyond the other choices because it does it’s dirty work in Javascript (which can speed up 
your server, because it doesn’t have to make request over to Last.fm every page load, rather your Guests computer does it). It displays album artwork, the song name, 
the artist name, and the album name! Your guests will be AMAZED when they find your recent obsession with Conway Twitty! They’ll gasp in awe when they see how much you 
played the beetles within the past five minutes, and their jaws will drop when they see you’ve been spinning N-Sync albums! Wait no longer, your guests can be amazed today!
On the technical side, Last.wp is powered by a small plugin provided by the kind people over at Engage Interactive. (Thanks for providing it under the GPL guys!). Unfortunatly, 
it requires each person to have their own API key as of now, due to Last.fm’s confusing API system. It’s easy to get one, you just login and go to the API screen, create a new 
application, and Voila, your very own API key! (Consult the Instructions for details)

Last.wp

Last.wp is a Wordpress widget that shows your guests what you've been listening to on Last.fm, via a jQuery plugin!

F13 Last.fm album Shortcode vs Last.wp