i made a new field in the profiles thingy for users to paste in the code from Last.FM so that their charts can be displayed in their profile page...
this lets people show various details, like what are their top "5" favourite bands or what songs they have been listening too etc etc....
now, it occured to me that one could do some really cool stuff with this... for instance, what if i asked for the users Last.FM username and then inserted a "standard" design for the chart, so that they all looked uniform? or so that i could then query various things... for example, if you post on the forum of our site, in your signature could be the last song you listened too or the top 3 songs you listened to recently etc etc...
and the best part is that the user wouldn't have to copy and past in the html code from Last.FM... they simply type in their username....
and we could even give them an option for what Last.FM data to display, perhaps a list of things they could check off...
like, yes - put my top 3 fave bands on my signature...
or no - don't list my top 10 songs i've listened to
or yes - list my fave bands on my profile page....
or yes, put a link to my Last.FM page in my signature etc etc etc....
for a Drupal music site this would be very very handy....
anyway, here is what my profile looks like now with the last.FM chart:
http://notetoselfdontdie.com/members/node/175