Last.fm users can chronicle their listening habits from Windows Media Player 12 directly into their account using the Last.fm Scrobbler.

You can use it for free for 30-days and then you need to pay $19.95 to continue using it. Another important note is the fact that this is a commercial plug-in, as is the beta version. To get it up and running, either don't upgrade to the latest version of iTunes or use the beta version of the MGTEK dopisp plug-in. Note that, as of the publishing of this tutorial, the plug-in isn't compatible with the latest version of iTunes. To get the plug-in to work, you do have to have iTunes installed on your machine and your iPod or iPhone in disk mode. Plus, you can see the contents in the Player Library. You can see my device show up on the left (I named it 'Phoney Baloney,' which, I think, would be a great name for vegan bologna) as well as in the Sync list. Of course, Windows Media Player 12 can do this on it's own, but the Lyrics Plugin goes one step further by allowing you to search for lyrics and add them yourself if they aren't immediately found. With elegant simplicity, the Lyrics Plugin displays the lyrics for the song in the Now Playing window.

The Lyrics Plugin originally gained popularity with Winamp, but it works with Windows Media Player 12.

There's more potential built-in to this plug-in, but we've yet to tap it and frankly, we'd like to leave some more space here for the other plug-ins. Now Playing is pretty awesome, too, because it can pull additional album info from Amazon or iTunes. That is, if that's information you're interested in sharing (I disable this plug-in whenever I listen to Lady Gaga so as not to lose any cred with my hipster friends). For example, you could use it in a WordPress widget to show visitors to your blog what song you were listening to in real time. For more advanced users, you can output your now playing info to an XML file and have it automatically upload to your website.

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