About this plugin
A simple widget that displays your Spotify activity on your site. fm Scrobble’ functionality.
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Once setup, the songs you play on your Spotify app are instantly viewable on your site for your users to see! Each line displays the song’s artist, song title & how long it’s been since you started listening to it. If a song is still playing it will display “Currently Playing” instead of displaying the time since it was played.
Easy to Setup
This plugin requires no extra software to be installed on the device you’re playing music from. fm username, anything you play will be displayed via the widget.
It’s Lightweight!
Although this plugin is ~5kb in size, only ~2kb is used on the front-end to display your recent activity. The remaining code is used to register the plugin & create/process the widget options. Translation?
This is a very small script and won’t even dent your load time.
This plugin uses Spotify’s ‘Last.fm Scrobbling’
fm Scrobbling” feature as a workaround. fm account is required for it to work. fm account, have no fear, as creating one takes approx.
15 seconds and it’s free!
Demo
See a demo of what the widget look’s like to users, here or on the ‘Screenshots’ tab. See what the widget’s settings look like, on the ‘Screenshots’ tab as well.
Instructions
- If you don’t have one already, Sign-up for a Last.fm account.
- In your Spotify app’s preferences, enable last.fm scrobbling & enter your last.fm login info
- In your WordPress admin area, under “Appearance” > “Widgets” area, drag & drop the “Latest Spotify Activity” widget to the desired sidebar location
- In the “Lastest Spotify Activity” widget settings, enter your last.fm user name and choose how many songs to display. Don’t forget to press save!
- You’re done! Get back to listening to music!
Support
Questions? Bugs? Suggestions?
com or tweet @justindocanto and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.