{"id":695,"date":"2006-05-10T22:19:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/lastfm\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T12:19:23","slug":"lastfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/lastfm\/","title":{"rendered":"last.fm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Set myself up on last.fm<\/a>, changed to amaroK<\/a> for playing music (so things go to last.fm<\/a>) and added foo to the sidebar of my blog<\/a>. I guess the trick now would be to get something to auto-add my current tune to the bottom of each entry. Maybe :)<\/p>\n

I’m a GNOME<\/a> boy, but amaroK seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of either rhythmbox or the version of banshee that ships with Ubuntu Breezy.<\/p>\n

My main complaints with amaroK<\/a> are that it looks nothing like my other desktop applications – it stands out that it’s a KDE<\/a> app and not a GNOME<\/a> app. Some clue on how to fix this would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

Back to last.fm, I think the goal is to help suggest music that you may like by looking at what you listen to and what other people who listen to some of the stuff you listen to listen to. Seems interesting at least.<\/p>\n

Newfangled technology to remove the “so what have you been listening to?” question from the list of things to talk about with friends :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set myself up on last.fm, changed to amaroK for playing music (so things go to last.fm) and added foo to the sidebar of my blog. I guess the trick now would be to get something to auto-add my current tune … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-gnome","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5a6n8-lastfm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":701,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/nirvana\/","url_meta":{"origin":695,"position":0},"title":"Nirvana","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-05-15","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I've put With The Lights Out in the virtual CD player (read: amaroK) and am remembering why I like Nirvana. 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