As you could probably tell, the Recently Playing music list to the right wasn’t being updated lately. I had made a transfer from a Mac (at Slingshot), to a PC (at Yahoo!). In doing so, I lost the use of a great plugin for iTunes, Recent Tunes. Luckily, I was able to find Now Playing, a similar plugin for the PC version of iTunes that generates an XML file, and uploads it to my server.

The Flash File

I decided to put together a quick Flash file to load in the album cover via amazon, and display the Title, Album, and Artist. Using AS2, and XPath, it was fairly easy. The Album cover even links to Amazon if you wish to buy the music. If you want to check out the source, I have uploaded it here.

Somehow, this entry got deleted. Below are the links to download my Text Editor. Hopefully I will get off my lazy ass sometime soon, and update this to AS2.

FLA: http://www.joshdura.com/te/Text Editor.fla
MXP: http://www.joshdura.com/te/Text Editor.mxp

NOTE: In the FLA file, the component is in the Library. I can’t tell you how many emails I get about this :D