One more geeky feature for my website. Look to the right and see the beautiful ‘Now Playing’ section. Courtesy of tijs via last.fm, audioscrobbler.net, and rhythmbox.

For those who are interested in the gory details, please continue. The faint of heart should close their eyes and walk away (please open your eyes again once you are walking away). Rhythmbox is a music player for linux. It has a nifty plugin that reports the songs you are playing to audioscrobbler.net. Last.fm allows you to view this information online, and gives you recommendations, etc. The last piece of the puzzle is a plugin made by the above mentioned author which fetches that information and drops it into the sidebar on my website. It’s probably pretty trivial, as last.fm makes the information available in about 50 different formats (I may have exaggerated slightly), but I’m glad someone else did the coding instead.

You may now move about the country (hope that’s not trademarked…).