After falling for Sweetcron and setting up my own online lifestream, I found that using Last.fm’s RSS feed wasn’t giving me enough data – all I was able to work with was the track title (artist – title as a single string) and a link to the last.fm page. This seemed like a bit of a waste, and meant that if I ever wanted to expand my Sweetcron theme in the future, I’d be stuck with this limited set of data to use. The Last.fm for Sweetcron plugin is a simple tool for populating the feed with a bit more useful information to play with. When enabled, it connects to the last.fm API as the feeds items are added to the database and grabs the extra info.

After falling for Sweetcron and setting up my own online lifestream, I found that using Last.fm’s RSS feed wasn’t giving me enough data – all I was able to work with was the track title (artist – title as a single string) and a link to the last.fm page. This seemed like a bit of a waste, and meant that if I ever wanted to expand my Sweetcron theme in the future, I’d be stuck with this limited set of data to use. The Last.fm for Sweetcron plugin is a simple tool for populating the feed with a bit more useful information to play with. When enabled, it connects to the last.fm API as the feeds items are added to the database and grabs the extra info.