I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to hook my Rhythmbox music player up to my Audioscrobbler account (I’ve given up on XMMS and its Audioscrobbler plugin (it just doesn’t work for me consistently and XMMS’ interface is getting a bit old in the tooth; besides, the GStreamer stuff behind Rhythmbox looks really interesting)). I know the connection can be done because someone has written a Rythmbox plugin that updates one’s user info in Gaim. Basically one connects through Bonobo to Rythmbox to get notified as songs change. Combining that with the Audioscrobbler XML interface (which was recently rewritten in Java, and so now should be a little more robust), should do the job nicely.

The one slight problem is that the Rhythmbox plugin and Gaim seem to be slightly out of step. When the plugin is enabled, Gaim crashes. Well, more specifically… when the plugin is installed, and the “set away message” is enabled, Gaim crashes. I need to report this to the plugin people. Their site says it works with the previous version of Gaim so something might have changed with the release I have.