Here’s just a quick announcement for a new WordPress widget I’ve written call iTunes Data. It’s a sidebar widget that displays snippets from an uploaded iTunes XML file.

Currently, the data that gets displayed in the widget is randomized to pull the following:

1. Top Genres
2. Latest Additions
3. Top Artists
4. Top Albums

I’ve actually had the basics done for quite some time. It’s been on my site, plugging along, which has helped me to make sure it was efficient and worked properly.

The cool thing about building the widget was learning about PclZip, something I’ll be writing more about soon. For now though, let me just say it’s a really nice zip file management class that allows for easy work.

The widget couldn’t have been built without the iTunes XML parser for PHP library written by Robert A. Wallis

Anyway, until I build a proper page for the widget and get it into the WordPress Plugin Repository, you can download it below.

Download iTunes Data Widget