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    Hello,

    Is it possible to get the coverart url to the last track (album) played?

    thanks in advance.

    If it's hard, its probably wrong.
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  • thanks any way :(

    If it's hard, its probably wrong.
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  • There's no way easy way to get at the album art info directly from the recent tracks feed. About a year ago I came up with a way to do it and built a sort of meta-service for it called Zen Radar. It's fairly reliable, I've been using it on my blog for over a year without any problems. Feel free to create an account and check it out. You can specify how many of the last 10 tracks you want in your feed, so if you just want the most recent one, you can get request just that one.

    One of the things that makes the service worthwhile is the ability to correct album info if last.fm's guess or mine are wrong. This is a big help if you listen to a lot of live albums or join tracks together in iTunes for mix CDs or whathaveyou.

    I moved the site to a new server last week, fixed a few bugs, and made some improvements. There are some issues from the server move that I'm still ironing out, so you may run across some weirdness here and there, it's definitely still "beta". Good luck.

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  • An easy, 'official' way:
    add images=true to the end of the api url like so:

    http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/RJ/recenttracks.xml?images=true

    it will provide a thumbnail and another larger image of the cover art for each track

    you can also limit (or expand) the number of tracks returned with "limit=x" where x is the number:

    http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/RJ/recenttracks.xml?limit=20

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    • nerstu said...
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    • 30 Sep 2008, 07:00

    I need a RSS feed

    To bad that images=true just works in the xml feed not in the rss feed :(

    Any way to get that into a rss feed?

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  • Does anyone have a solution for images in the RSS feed?

    It seems that Zen Radar only gives you an XML-page. so I don't see the benefit of Zen Radar over the official solution mentioned by TheMariner. My apologies if I've misunderstood something.

    I'd like to get an RSS-feed including the album covers. Is this not possible?

    Regards, Dennis

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