itunes info in sidebar

because something was f[beep] up with the way kung-tunes posted the trackinfo from my itunes to the sidebar, here’s the roundup on how i did it (adding to this post):

• go to mt’s control panel.
• make a new blog (itunes).
• make a new category (nowplaying).
• hit “edit category attributes”, toggle “accept incoming trackback pings” to yes.
• jot down the trackback url.
• add that url to kung-tunes preferences.
• make the format of kungtunes notification:

• add three files to the sub-blog (here: itunes), now_playing.html and lastfive.html and last30.html.
• for each of the three above files add something along these lines to the code: (MTAmazon optional for album cover)

by <a href=“itms:// phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/ advancedSearchResults?artistTerm=<$MTPingBlogName encode_url=“1”$>” title=“Search at the iTunes Music Store”><$MTPingBlogName$>

from the album <a href=“itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/ advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=<$MTPingExcerpt encode_url=“1”$>” title=“Search at the iTunes Music Store”><$MTPingExcerpt$>

was played .

• thank b. for whacking out quite a bit of the above code and helping with the initial debugging.
• prettify the code for the 5 and 30 page, because these are the pages the people are gonna look at (iterate lastn=X in: “”.
• add the code below to the sidebar of the main blog.

• rebuild all involved blogs.
• wash, rinse, repeat

btw: you did not notice that since i installed panther kung-tunes was posting the album title as the song title, did you?