We love music around here, which is why we’re always showing off what were listening too over on the left. Some time ago I automated the process of looking up album artwork using the Amazon API and posting it on or blog.

This approach has a couple advantages over things like last.fm, 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!