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Yesterday, one of my new colleagues pointed my attention to last.FM, an internet radio station. Well, there are plenty internet radio stations, but what sets this one apart from the rest is the fact that you can specify what songs you like, so that some kind of profile is created. I had already heard of it before, but I’ve always been weary about profiling and shit, but seeing this shit as the 21st century equivalent of booming your bad-ass music from the speakers of your car, I no longer have a problem with it and I signed up.

Based on your own music-profile, you can find similar music, or choose to listen to the internet radio of people with similar taste. And it’s pretty good quality radio, too.

Using the service for a couple of hours, I thought it’s pretty cool. And it actually was a breeze to set-up (the guys over at last.FM even supply a Linux-client).

I had already fixed the patch to MythTV to include internet stream support, so the only thing I needed to do was to set up the proxy.

This proxy, called lastfmproxy is a nice piece of code that can serve any old media player with an MP3 file, but can also be used to skip, love and ban tracks. The only thing the proxy program needs, is a username and password to use (and a working-directory, of course).

Another nice thing (and I’m refering to the remark this being the 21st equivalent of booming your car-stereo), is that you can include your personal charts on your website (just like in the header of this one’s).

So that’s cool..

Update Hey I just discovered this old patch which, after some manual intervention, embeds Audioscrobbler support into MythMusic, so tracks I play will be scrobbled to the profile.

MythTV, Linux PVR, Open Source, Internet Radio, Last.FM