WordPress Plugin: Music

Introduction

Add your personal music charts to your WordPress site. Easily embed information about albums and song lyrics using shortcodes.

Some features of this plugin require the use of a Last.fm API key. Last.fm is a free service which tracks your music listening via an application on your computer and/or phone. Alternatively Last.fm can be linked to your Spotify account to track listening without the need for an app.

Features

• Shortcode to embed your personal music charts
• Shortcode to embed information about an album
• Shortcode to embed lyrics
• Widget to embed your personal music charts (coming soon)

Album shortcode

The album shortcode allows information to be gathered about an album, such as artwork, track listings, release year and description.

Arguments:

• artist: Artist name wrapped in quotes if the text contains spaces – Required
• album: Album name wrapped in quotes if the text contains spaces – Required
• cache: Cache time in minutes, if not included, the default cache time will be used – Optional

Basic usage:

[album artist=korn album=untitled]

Korn - Untitled

1) Intro (01:57)2) Starting Over (04:02)3) Bitch We Got a Problem (03:22)4) Evolution (03:37)5) Hold On (03:05)6) Kiss (04:09)7) Do What They Say (04:17)8) Ever Be (04:48)9) Love and Luxury (03:00)10) Innocent Bystander (03:27)11) Killing (03:36)12) Hushabye (03:52)13) I Will Protect You (05:32)

Tags:nu metalalternative metalindustrial metalmetal

Published: 05 May 2020

Including a custom cache:

[album artist="Infected Mushroom" album="The Gathering" cache="600"]

Infected Mushroom - The Gathering

1) Release Me (08:32)2) The Gathering (07:43)3) Return Of The Shadows (08:19)4) Blue Muppet (08:08)5) Psycho (08:38)6) Montoya Rms (08:20)7) Tommy The Bat (07:29)8) Virtual Voyage (08:24)9) Over Mode (08:45)

Tags:electronicpsytrancegoapsychedelictrance

Published: 12 Dec 2013

Arguments with special characters:

[album artist="Metallica" album="S&M"]

Metallica - S&M

1) The Ecstasy of Gold (01:58)2) The Call of Ktulu (10:15)3) Master of Puppets (08:34)4) Of Wolf and Man (04:34)5) The Thing That Should Not Be (06:27)6) Fuel (04:23)7) The Memory Remains (04:33)8) No Leaf Clover (06:15)9) Hero of the Day (04:25)10) Devil's Dance (06:00)11) Bleeding Me (08:31)12) Nothing Else Matters (06:21)13) Until It Sleeps (04:30)14) For Whom the Bell Tolls (04:44)15) -Human (04:19)16) Wherever I May Roam (07:25)17) The Outlaw Torn (28:27)18) Sad but True (06:31)19) One (08:51)20) Enter Sandman (05:55)21) Battery (06:03)

Tags:metalheavy metalthrash metalmetallicahard rock

Published: 01 Jan 2013

An album which cannot be found:

[album artist="Unknown" album="A non existing album"]

Charts shortcode

Display your personalised charts based on your recent listening. The charts shortcode requires a free Last.fm API key. Last.fm can be installed as an application on your computer or phone to track the music you listen to. If you listen to your music via Spotify, Last.fm can track your Spotify usage without the need for an additional app.

Arguments:

• limit: The number of tracks to show in your charts – Optional – Default: 10

[my_chart limit=10]

Lyrics shortcode

Embed the lyrics of a song into a page or post using a simple shortcode.

Arguments:

• artist: The artist name, wrapped in quotes if the name contains spaces – Required
• song: The song name, wrapped in quotes if the name contains spaces – Required

Basic usage:

[lyrics artist="Guns N Roses" song="Welcome to the Jungle"]

A song which could not be found:

[lyrics artist="Unknown" song="A non existing song"]

Charts widget

Installation

F13 Music can be installed via the Plugins section of WordPress. If you wish to download the source code, simply upload the code to the wp-content/plugins folder on your webserver, then visit the Plugins section of WordPress admin to activate the F13 Music.

Configuration

Configuration of F13 Music is by the form provided in your WordPress Admin area under the menu

"F13 Admin" >> "Music"

Here you will be able to add a Last.fm API key allowing certain features of the plugin to function.
Settings

• Last.fm API Key: Provided by the Last.fm API
• Cache timeout: Enter the time in minutes that you wish data to be cached for. A higher number will cache data for longer, reducing the number of API calls. A lower number will allow data to be updated more regularly at the cost of more API calls and fractionally slower page load times.

Obtain a Last.fm API key

1. If you haven’t already got a Last.fm account, visit Last.fm and join.
2. Visit Last.fm/api/account/create and fill in the form.
3. Copy your Last.fm API key to the “F13 Admin >> Music” page in WordPress admin.

Linking Spotify to Last.fm

1. Visit Last.fm/settings/applications
2. Click the “Connect” button for the “Spotify Scrobbling” application. Please note “Spotify Playback is not required for music tracking.

F13 Music Settings

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