Not-So-Normal Geek Stuff

http://www.last.fm/user/murderbymodem
I’ve only been a member since August second. It’s kind of neat that I broke one thousand plays on September second. I love my music.

For those of you that don’t know, Last.fm keeps track of the songs you play via software on your computer. This software is called a Scrobbler. Last.fm has their own official scrobbler which can be downloaded here, which works with Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Itunes and last but definitely not least, my player of choice, Foobar2000. However, as opposed to using the official client and having more software running on my computer than needed, I use Florian’s Foobar2000 audioscrobbler component. It is a simple .dll file you drop into the components folder in your Foobar2000 directory, and then it simply adds the functionality to Foobar2000.

There are many components like this for Foobar2000. There is an Ipod manager component that allows you to add music to any Ipod. This eliminates having to have the Ipod synced with a single computer, which I have always found very annoying since I have quite a few machines between my Mom’s house and my Dad’s house. There is also the ASIO component, which is a must have for any user like me who owns a high quality sound card. ASIO stands for Audio Steam Input Ouput, which allows the application to output directly to your sound hardware, bypassing Windows software and reducing latency. Another amazing thing you can do with Foobar2000 is use Streamripper to record music from internet radio stations. There is a great guide on how to set up Foobar2000 to use Streamripper here.

Well, that was going to be a short post for my thousand plays on Last.fm, but it turned into quite a rant, haha.