Do you want to display what you’ve been listening to on Last.fm? I’ve seen wordpress blogs with their last.fm music lists or the album covers but I haven’t seen the widgets for it until today. One of them, the Run for cover widget lets you display the album covers of the music you listen to the most.

This is actually a re-haul of the earlier Last.fm covers widget released last April. The earlier version only checks for the top album feeds of the defined user. The new one now checks for what music you listen to the most on a weekly basis instead. Installation can’t be simpler. Download the latest version of the widget from the honde van Dirkie site. Extract it and save it to the wp-content/plugins/widgets folder on your server. Once you’re done all you need to do is to set it where you want it on your layout and then it’ll do the rest.

Download the zip from this entry.

The newest version even let’s you choose if you want the images to link to Last.fm and Amazon. There’s been little tweaks and additions to make it more customizable and viewing-friendly. For example, a “loading” text is displayed while waiting for the images to load, and if there’s no album cover to be found it gives you a “No images to display” text. I think it’s great way to discover if you share the same tastes in music. Who knows? You might actually find new friends through your music!

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