now playing, sort of
i listen to music too much for it to not be broadcasted!
i spent a bit today figuring out how to have some kind of widget embedded in a page, but no luck, at least in terms of what i'm looking for specifically. the options i saw were paywalled or not compatible with bearblog as well.
i wanted something straightforward. a list, or collage of albums or artists that auto-updates according to my listening report at the time of viewing, as web-accessible as possible. it seemed too sophisticated and like something i needed to code myself, which, at the moment, i don't feel like building.
tapmusic.net's last.fm collage generator is my best bet at the moment:
- it's free to use.
- it seems to be in sync with my last.fm listening charts via scripting, rather than being a static image.
- i can generate a chart displaying what i've been listening to for the past week, month, 3 months, 6 months, year, or overall.
- the caveat is having a last.fm account and enough of a backlog to be neatly collaged in a 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, or 10x10 image.
- the collage updates every friday around 15:00 UTC, according to last.fm support.
embedding is simple and in line with bearblog's markdown cheatsheet. just generate chart, pull URL from address bar, insert, and voilà:

now you got yourself a generated chart of your most recently streamed albums, scripted.
there is a way to include artist and album names, and playcounts, but the text is nearly unreadable at times over anything that isn't a solid, dark color. i also can't seem to have just the playcount displayed without including artist/album names. thus, i'll just have the album covers displayed. reverse image search is a good way to look up an album without discernible text. (or you can ask me!)
my chart is set to show my 16 most streamed albums in the past 7 days. it can be viewed here as well as in my nav bar above.