I was listening to my squeezebox this afternoon and I thought it might be neat if I had a widget that displayed the album cover and assorted details of the song I was listening to at that moment. So I wrote one.
My Squeezebox “What’s Playing” widget sits inside the Sidebar Widgets pluggin for WordPress. The slimserver-based plugin that feeds the metadata to the widget is from regoroad.com.
The update on my transmission troubles is that my Subaru’s transmission was not ambitious enough to achieve goocity, it was a damaged fluid hose (missed from the various inspections and rounds of repairs) that was pushed up against the fan housing. I have my car back, but it is making weird noises and feels like it is bumping against something whenever I turn now.
Update: I removed the album art as there appears to be a multifile upload bug in the regoroad plugin and its ftp option appears to be too slow for most artwork. I’ve reverted to text only for now
