I am using gnump3d to get my tracks to my laptop, which is using mpd to play tracks. I noticed that none of the streamed tracks were getting to last.fm. I investigated and discovered that mpdscribble was not getting told of the track length by mpd – understandably so – and was not reporting it to last.fm.

I patched the mpdscribble utility and posted about it.

Updated…

Sharing your current [last.fm]{tag/lastfm} track on irc in realtime is very important. :) Here is a ion3 binding that will use xclip to copy the current track info into the X clipboard.

    defbindings("WScreen", {
            kpress("Mod4+grave", "ioncore.exec('echo player/currentlyPlaying | nc localhost 32213 | xclip -i')"),
    })

Put it in ~/.ion3/cfg_user.lua.

I just *heart* last.fm.

It really is the LAST radio station you will need to tune into... well, unless you're in the car or on a bus or something silly like that.

Last.fm is a streaming internet radio station that learns to what you listen to. It also allows you to listen to stations tailored to other people, or listen to particular types of music, or artists similar to the ones you like, etc, etc etc.