Planet SoC

Last weeks have been quite busy, It marked the beginning of the fall semester at my University so you can imagine I had a couple things to take care of but still I had time to work a little on the Last.fm radio for the OSD. I corrected some bugs, enhanced the navigation, made a couple of aesthetic enhancement and right now I can only see one show-stopper bug. It’s related to the lastfmeta plugin of xmms2, the plug-in have a hard time getting the meta data from Last.fm. This result no meta data for 80% of the track playing. It’s not a big deal but it’s not perfect. I’ll try to find a solution in a near future.
I also added the xmms2-audioscrobbler to the OSD build system. It work as expected apart from the fact that it need to be started manually. I need to find a way to start it automatically each time the xmms2 daemon start. On a standard xmms2 installation this would be quite simple but on the OSD it’s an other story. Anyway I should have more times to work on these things in the next few weeks, once the first few weeks rush at the University will pass.
On a side note, Google released the traditional KML file representing all passing students linked to their mentors all over the planet (also available on Google Maps). I always find it interesting how people from all around the world worked together during the summer to create and develop exiting open source project.