I love music, which is why I’m always showing off what I’m listening too over there on the right. Some time ago I automated the process of looking up album artwork using the Amazon API and posting it to my blog.

This approach has a couple advantages over things like last.fm wordpress plugins, like being able to select exactly what you want shown, and automatic linking to amazon for affiliate commissions.

I’ve packaged everything up into a wordpress plugin and put it on my github page here: http://github.com/jaredmoody/wp_now_playing

It also comes with a nice applescript so you can submit what’s currently playing to your blog with a single click:

I’d love some feedback on it, and patches are also more than welcome.

Please report any issues on the github page, thanks!