Jul 01 2008
Brandon Fuller’s Now Playing Plugin
Purely by accident I came across Brandon Fuller’s Now Playing Plugin because I wanted to output my current music playlist on my personal blog.
It turns out (by chance) that Brandon had the foresight to include twitter, facebook, itunes affiliate scheme (administered via TradeDoubler in the UK, LinkShare in the USA) and Amazon Associates functionality in the plugin amongst other things.
Combine this with Josh Blake’s nowplaying wp plugin for wordpress and you begin to have a fairly powerful active affiliate marketing plugin system for music tracks!
Brandon also has other PHP example code on his site so, if you’re a developer you can actually adapt the xml feeds the plugin produces to suit any need you have!
To be honest, there are some improvements I personally would like made to the plugin such as the image output on facebook actually working, and the possibility to add in affiliate information into the facebook app.
I’d also like Josh’s widget to be more of a plugin with more options for configuration of output - who knows I may even code this up myself!
Overall, a nifty little find!
You can get Brandon’s plugin here: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/
There are versions for iTunes for Mac OS X | Winamp | Windows Media Player | Yahoo! Music Engine and please remember that it is shareware, so if you do use it, like it and ultimately if it makes you money, then please don’t forget to pay the guy his $15
You can get Josh’s wordpress plugin here: http://www.joshblake.net/projects/nowplayingwp/
