Music lover? Some people might not understand what it is about sharing playlists with other people but there’s something about putting up your personal playlist for the whole world to see. It says something about your personality and it could also be a good way to start a conversation with other people online. If you like such things, you could use the Scrobbler widget on your WordPress-powered blog.

Scobbler? Audioscrobbler? What?
If you haven’t heard of Audioscrobbler, it is basically a service that keeps track of the listening habits of different people. Whatever kind of media player you are using, as long as you have the Audioscrobbler plugin, the songs that you listen to will be added to your music profile. Nothing here about downloading music. It’s really more on music listening habits and the nice thing about the database is that you could have so many nifty stats regarding musical preferences and the like.

Scrobbler fun
If you have the Scrobbler plugin, the nice thing is that the readers of your blog won’t really feel some site-reloading and stuff because of AJAX. They would simply see the updated list on your blog. Less of a hassle, right?

What you need
Scrobbler!
WordPress 2.+
PHP4 and up
an account on AudioScrobbler/LastFM

Once you have the requirements, you shouldn’t find it difficult to install it. When you have the Scrobbler plugin active, you don’t have to put the function call for Scrobbler on your template. You could simply use the widget Don’t you just love such nifty widgets?

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