Download Scrobbles (Version 1.4.1)
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What is it?
Scrobbles is a simple WordPress plugin that fetches your Last.fm data and displays it on your site where you wish.
Installation
- First, you need to upload
scrobbles.phpto your WordPress plugins directory. Next, you’ll need to do a quick edit of your template. Find the place where you’d like to display your songs, such as the sidebar, and add the following line:
<?php scrobbles('username'); ?>Replacing
usernamewith your Audioscrobbler username.- Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel, and that’s it!
Is that it?
That’s all you need to do, but there are a few things you can do to customise how Scrobbles displays your song info.
scrobbles() can take up to seven parameters that allow you to customise the output further. They are, in order:
username - Required
Your Audioscrobbler username.
num_songs - Optional
The number of songs to display. Defaults to 5 and is limited to a maximum of 10, that being the number of items Audioscrobbler displays in its RDF feeds.
gmt_offset - Optional
How many hours in front of or behind GMT you are. Defaults to
0, GMT, but can be anywhere between -12 and +14.format_string - Optional
How to format the string. By default, it displays the song and date in this format:
%song%<br />Played on %date%%song%,%link%and%date%are the available variables. Dates are formatted according to thedate_formatparameter.date_format - Optional
How to format the
%date%variable. The variables are exactly the same as PHP’s date function.base_element - Optional
The base element of the “loop”. Defaults to
ol, producing an ordered list. Scrobbles assigns this aclassofscrobbles, allowing you to alter visual styling with CSS.each_element - Optional
The element that will be used for each song. Defaults to
li, which makes sense in the context of an ordered list but might not if you changebase_element.
Tips and Tricks
You can make your Scrobbles display a bit prettier and add a “powered by Audioscrobbler” logo if you like. Download this image to your server and add the following code to your theme’s CSS file:
ul.scrobbles, #scrobbles { background:transparent url(path/to/image.png) no-repeat bottom right; padding-bottom:35px; }Changing the path to the image appropriately, and please don’t leech from Last.fm’s servers.
Discuss
You can discuss any problems or post suggestions for future upgrades to Scrobbles - or any of my other plugins - on the mailing list available here. Come join in!
Widget
If you use the Wordpress Widgets plugin and a compatible theme, you can use this version of Scrobbles instead:
Download Scrobbles Widget (Version 1.0)
Scrobbles Widget has been downloaded 1,234 times.
Install, activate, and edit the options in the Presentation → Sidebar Widgets menu. Much easier to customise as well as to enable and disable!
Changelog
2005-08-23: Initial Release
2005-08-24: 1.1 - Added date and string formatting, used WordPress’s existing Magpie system, general tidying and improvements.
2005-09-09:
1.2 - Added gmt_offset parameter.
2005-11-01:
1.3 - Added %link% variable.
2005-11-08:
1.4 - Added %artist% and %title% variables - %song% still works, though. Changed to new Audioscrobbler feed URL.
65 Comments
hey, i use scrobbles now but could you get it to show the album name ? in lets say %album% ?
You can’t, unfortunately - Audioscrobbler only lists the artist and the title, despite plugins submitting album data. We’ll just have to wait and see if they change this in the future :(
i’ll keep this place bookmarked for now then :)
nice plugin btw ^^~*
Great work! I just signed up for an AS account and now I’m looking to show the info on my blog! One problem I’ve had in the past with developing these kinds of scripts though is what if the site goes down? The current version of Scrobbles doesn’t cache anything, so I’ll just get a PHP error message? That’s, like, not cool man. Any chance of this being in the TODO list?
-Steve
It does cache it - I’m not entirely sure what Magpie does when the site is down, though.
Provided Magpie dies silently, all that will happen is Scrobbles will say that you have no recently played songs. If Magpie dies in an ugly way, all it’ll take is an error-supressing
@in front of thefetch_rss()call.Oh! I guess I didn’t realize what Magpie really is :) Thanks for the heads up!
Great work! Now if Audioscrobbbler would stop relying on MusicBrainz for ALL the data in the RSS.. that would be lovely!
–Steve
Yeah, it’s quite annoying sometimes, especially when it converts artist/title names to Cyrillic character sets. I’ve spoken to Russ about this before but nothing came of it unfortunately.
Hmm is there any way to set the time offset from that of the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler server?
Sorry Dorie, I meant to reply to your comment but it slipped my mind. Yep, it’s certainly possible. I’ll implement it and add an extra parameter :)
The example using all the parameters is missing the GMT offset argument- if you use it as-is in a current version of the plugin, you get incorrect output.
Does Audioscrobbler supply feeds of the other info like weekly top artists, top overall artists, etc.?
It never used to, but it does now, apparently. Neat - I’ll be playing with this tonight for sure :)
This plugin is great! My only problem is a formatting one… getting everything to line up on the left. I think it’s a base_element/each_element thing, but i’m not sure.
I think it’s just that <ul> elements have left-padding by default in most browsers. Try adding this to your CSS:
ul.scrobbles { margin:0; padding:0; }
and see if it works :)
“It never used to, but it does now, apparently. Neat - I’ll be playing with this tonight for sure :)”
Let rip, Robbie-boy!
werked like a charm, thanks Rob!
bizarre. it was working fine last night and isn’t now. scratches head
Seems to be working now, when I look at your site - must’ve been a problem with Audioscrobbler. If you have any problems with it not fetching stats or something, 99% of the time it will be because of Last.fm and not the site.
Rusters, what exactly would you like me to let rip on? :P
yeah, the plug-in has always been working fine. like you said, it’s completely dependent upon Last.fm. it’s just the formatting didn’t really stay after the first time I checked it. really wierd. I wonder if it’s something in some of my other code that’s over-riding the scrobbles code you’ve written above?
Robert, I meant putting in options to display stats for your top x bands for a week, top x bands overall, top x songs overall, and so on. And not those rubbishy Last.fm images either, but text. I wouldn’t use them all myself, but they would all make your plugin better and I’m only trying to help you improve as a person.
That would be really hard Rus :(
Well not hard, but time consuming. I’ll do it at some point but not right now as I’m pretty busy with other stuff :)
hi… just wondered, how do i format the syntax for the extra options?
thanks.
What do you mean exactly? Which options?
by default, i just enter my username in there, but i just wanted to know how to change additional things like the time offset (which is wrong for me), and as i see it, its just gmt_offset in there… somewhere somehow… i just dont know how :)
Ah, ok.
Will display 5 songs with a gmt_offset of -2. The parameters are in the same order as they appear above, and you can add as many as you like; for example, here’s one that uses all of the possible options:
ah, thanks a lot :)
Hey, I have installed the plugin without any problems, but all I get on the front page is the “No recently played tracks to display.” message, even though I have just played a song updated to the last web site ! mmm any ideas ? Thanks
problem solved: it just took a bit of time to show the songs after I played them.
I have tried to use your plugin at my blog :http://www.nutronic.net/nublog/?page_id=18 on its own page but for some reason I just see nothing where it should be, i am using Opera browser and its the same really for Internet Explorer too.
Any suggestions?
When making the page It looks like this:
My Playlist
is that correct cus thats what your instructions state.?
If you want to use it in a page, you’ll need to download PHPExec/RunPHP.
I’ve noticed on your site that your recent plays are cached. On my blog, they disappear when they go from my Last.fm profile page. How do I make them cache?
I don’t do anything special, they just stick around on my Last.fm - dunno why. I guess it might be because I’m a Last.fm subscriber, although that’s not listed as one of the benefits on the site.
Weird, I’m a subscriber too, but the recent plays fade away after a few hours. Maybe it’s because I’m on the dreaded cluster 2.
Hello everyone.
I must be very stupid but… I am missing something here.
I did put my audioscrobbler user name on my side bar template
But should it be put on the scrobbles.php file too ?
It seems obvious to me, but nowhere on this page is told how to enter my username on the file.
Am I completely wrong ?
Thanks for helping me :)
Got it.
I know why I was completely puzzled : the “feed” of my recent tracks itself is wrong (event on lastfm website).
So it’s not the plugin that is wrong, it’s something with iScrobbler within iTunes.
Sorry :)
The logo seems to go on the top of the last line, is there a way to fix this?
It shouldn’t - are you sure you’ve added the padding, and that the padding isn’t being overriden later on?
I added ul.scrobbles { margin:0; padding:0; } as the last line of my css file but that didn’t help. Is there anything else I could do?
You want it to have padding at the bottom, though. Look at the CSS above.
It doesn’t seem to move, no matter what I do.
Goodie plugin mister! :)
Muchos gracias!
is there an alternate download link, because when I click on the upper download link nothing happens, but a blank page.
thanks
Love your plugin’s. Just got Now Reading and Scrobbles onot my site. You mention in your Scrobbles guide that you can stick the logo onto the site and tidy up the presentation. Any way of doing that with the widget?
Updated for the widget CSS.
Awesome!!!
ok not sure if u meant u had updated something regarding my question…
Uploaded the widget scrobble.php again after redownloading and no change apparent?
Prob just me!!
My fault see the change now…. get a double logo on my site though any ideas?
Looks fine to me?
Awesome plugin! Having a little trouble with the image being on the bottom line, but I should be able to figure it out, I think :)
Any plans to add support for the other feeds provided by AudioScrobbler, namely weekly tracks and weekly artists?
Awe.some. About time I came across one of these that not only actually worked but was easy to install. Way easy. Thanks! :-)
Fantastic plug-in! The one problem I’m having is that it can’t display symbols like &. Any idea how I can tweak it so it will? I’d rather not have to rename my music collection over a display issue
Help!!!
I love this plugin, actually the only audiscrobbler plugin that works for me for some reason. I have been trying to validate my site, right now for XHTML, and scrobbles produces an error; “…Suicide Commando Mordfabrik< / li > < / ul > < / > < br / >”
It’s of course the < / > that is the error, I have no idea of how to edit it so it wont do this. Advice is appreciated.
this is the first audioscrobbler plugin for WP i managed to handle - it works!! thanks a lot.
but i have one question since i am a complete PHP noob. i have a german blog and want the date to appear in geman.
i googled and found out that i obviously have to add sth like “setlocale(LC_TIME, ‘de_DE’);” to the php code.
but where?? i tried t place it in several parts of scrobbler.php but i either get error messages or nothing happens at all.
There seems to be a very long delay between when a song is submitted to Last.fm, and when it shows up in the plugin. The web site updates immediately, as do the rss feeds. Where is the plugin getting its information from?
The RSS feeds. Scrobbles caches for 3 minutes before it will fetch the feed again.
Hmmm… I’m seeing stale data for longer than 3 minutes - more like an hour. I know the rss feed is updated since I can check it directly from last.fm. I wonder if my web provider is doing something strange.
It’s definitely a caching issue. The list that is displayed does not update unless I make a change to the page. Where is the cache of the RSS feed kept?
Thanks for the help!
Make a change to what page?
Is there any way I can just display the song title without the date? I can’t seem to figure out a parameter I can use for that =/
scrobbles(’username’, 5, 0, ‘%song%’);
I agree with Jon (post 53): it would be nice if there was a way to display “&” without messing up the look entirely, like this:
Ralph+Carmichael+%26+The+Young+People - The Flower Shoppe
Other than that: brilliant!
Hey Rob,
Dude…great plugin… granted it’s not ajaxy, but hey who cares at this point! I’m so sick to death of trying a “known” plugin only for it to fail validation. Nice work dude… earned you a spot under my “WordPress Heros” section. :)
Hi
I don’t really have anything new to say that isn’t already in the comments. I just wanted to say thank you for this plug-in. I just recently started working with wordpress and I have only little knowledge of PHP, but this is so easy to use and I really like the way I’m able to customise it.
So just to say thank you.
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