WP iTunes

Nevermind, I figured it out. There were returns after the ?> in the plugin file.

Still wish iTunesBlogger would behave though.

I’ve patched iTunesBlogger to prevent iTunes lock ups and to also make it work with more than 2 songs. Get it here https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~hall/iTunesBlogger_0.5_Patched.zip

You *may* have to copy your configuration xml which the real iTunesBlogger 0.5 generates in order to get the http form paramaters correct.

Hope this makes someone happy besides me ??

P.S. I’m posting this patch because I had no response from the iTunesBlogger developers. I’ll take it down if they ask me.

That’s good news for all the CG-WhatTunes users out there as well — iTunesBlogger is one of the few solutions for getting data POSTed to a site. Thanks!

-d

FYI I got it working with Recent Tunes on the mac as well.

The trick is with the URL… don’t type in the https:// in the field they give you. They are automatically adding that.

I installed everything and when I play the song, it shows up on itunesBlogger, but not on my website itself (it’s just blank). It created a table for wp-itunes, but nothing shows up on my site. This is the code I’m using <?php get_wp_itunes(3); ?>
is that correct? I don’t see any error messages. My site is located at https://somegirlwitha.com. I have wordpress installed in it’s own directory. Please advise.

this is an excellent plugin, mate. installed it virtually flawlessly, which is a genuine first! Works great! https://www.idealflaw.com i put it in my menu.. looks really professional..

I can’t get this one to work either, and this is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for.

I thought that it was my firewall at work blocking the GET request, but it’s not. You said above that the first time iTunesBlogger sends a song it will CREATE the table. It did that correctly, but it is not INSERTing any records to the table. I also disconnected from the network at work and used dial-up for a while to see if that would make a difference, but it didn’t either.

As far as I can tell I’ve got everything correct, so I’m not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

Actually, I can see the playlist in the admin ‘tunes’ area, but nothing shows up on the blog page itself. Any ideas out there?

To anyone interested in displaying the last 50 songs (like lucky33 does on his site), it’s really not that difficult. All you have to do is create a new function in the code (just copy the get_wp_itunes function and rename it to something like get_wp_itunes_previous) and then call get_wp_itunes_previous(50); from a different page.

This is better than simply calling get_wp_itunes(50); from a different page because you can recustomize your output so that it looks different than the one on your sidebar. In order to get multiple songs listed in one column, you have to wrap the output in a DIV that has “float: left;” If you don’t know why, then you can read this: https://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/ for some CSS help.

Hope that helps guys. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Im interested in how you did images from Amazon.
Gotta look into that ??

I coded my own as I didn’t know you had this nice script.
https://dimitry.arthero.com/music

Works similarly (iTunesBlogger -> web update -> mysql -> blog)
Dimitry

Thanks a lot for your help, guboogi. With the direction in your post I finally managed to make the last 50 songs page!

You made my day ??

guboogi, could you post more detailed info on how to display the last 50 songs played on a separate page? I’m not really good at coding.

other than that, this plugin is the bestest!

Hi, I love this plugin! Thanks alot, but for some reason, it will never display the album image for anything. I double-checked my Amazon Subscription ID in the wp-itunes.php… it always just displays my blank.gif image… I’m using WP 1.5.. my site: https://www.superwick.com

Thanks for any help I can get…

I upgraded to WP1.5 yesterday. I added WP iTunes. iTunes will play thru two songs and the site will get updated, but then after two songs it stops updating. iTunesBlogger shows that it’s updating when a new song loads in iTunes, so I don’t think it’s a problem with Windows/iTunes/iTunesBlogger.

what can I can look for?

is there a problem with key length? my $itunes_key variable is a 40 char sha1sum.

If you guys can’t get it working, feel free to try out CG-WhatTunes, part of the CG-PowerPack. It has recently-updated CG-Amazon for grabbing album cover & purchase link, though it’s gotten fairly light testing & feedback.

PowerPack is at: https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

Ping me if you need help (you need to activate both CG-WhatTunes and CG-Amazon, and make the tracktunes.txt file world writeable…).

-d