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I’ve just written a contextual menu plugin for iTunes that adds a ‘Play Similar Artist Radio in Last.fm’ item to the menu when you right click on any song - it even works when you right click on albums in cover flow.

First it pauses iTunes if you happen to already be listening to something and then it launches the Last.fm client and automatically tunes into the similar artist station for the artist of the song you right clicked on.

This is an excellent way of discovering new artists similar to ones already in your iTunes library.

You can download a .dmg containing the plugin below, to install it simply drag the ‘iTunes Last.fm Plugin.plugin’ file contained in the disk image to your ‘/Library/Contextual Menu Items’ folder. Then relaunch iTunes and the plugin is installed.

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Update - I just added Growl support, so when you change stations it also sends a notification

The plugin has been tested on both PPC and Intel.

You must have the Last.fm client installed for the plugin to work. If you don’t already have it you can download it here

Complete source code for the plugin is available here
Licensed under the GPL.