iTunes Last.fm Plugin
April 1st, 2007I’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.
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
[...] The plugin should work with most versions of iTunes, and can be downloaded here. [...]
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Nice!
Maybe it would be cool if the (->) links in iTunes would launch the similar artist radio as well (instead of the iTunes Store)?
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
awesome.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Hmm, but if I don’t have Growl, it won’t work now? (it asked me where Growl Helper.app was, and I said “cancel”, and it didn’t do anything).
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
OK, I installed Growl. This is excellent. This might be my new favorite way to discover music
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Thanks for your feedback Snarshad, Marissa and Jurgen! I’m really glad you like it.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:42 am
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April 4th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
This truly is a great add on for itunes, it is just a shame that the “similar” artist function isn’t as good!
Keep up the good work.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Thanks DCBrit! Yes Last.fm certainly doesn’t always get it right.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Nice plugin, only detail is that I like as much of my apps on my native language (spanish) I really hate to mix things in ’spanglish’.
Can you tell me wich app can I use to edit the iTunes Last.fm Plugin file (inside the package) to translate some of the text’s to spanish? Can I do it with textedit?
Example: translate ‘Play similar artist Radio on Last.fm’ to ‘Tocar Radio con artista similar en Last.fm’.
Thks.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:57 am
A very nice plugin. Nice work. Works well with the Itunes Keep it going
April 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Thanks Michael - glad you like it
May 12th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Hello Admin, I’m sorry but i’m a pretty new Mac user. How do i install this plugin in iTunes? thank you.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Oops, i’m sorry!! I didn’t read the manual paragraph above.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Hi I’ve downloaded the the plug in but am having problems with locating the ‘/Library/Contextual Menu Items’ folder. I don’t seem to have it.
I’m using Leopard OS X. Pls help
Thank you!
February 14th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Hi Dan
That is really strange, I am also running Leopard and I do have that Folder. You could try creating it yourself.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi - I’m on an old mac (osx 10.3.9), using old versions of iTunes, scrobbler & growl and can’t upgrade any of these with my OS - I can’t get this plugin to do anything. The option appears in the menu but doesn’t respond. Is it my old computer that’s the problem? I have done everything in the instructions… thanks for any advice you can give - this plugin is exactly what I was looking for.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Sorry Rachael, there is noway this plugin will work on OS X < 10.4.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 am
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February 10th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Thanks for saying so, i need some time to think about this. happens all the time
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February 22nd, 2010 at 8:31 am
Very handy article. Incredibly clear commentary and suggested phrasing are most impressive, as are his and your generosity in sharing this explanation and example
March 10th, 2010 at 10:42 am
yea important info