So, a few weeks ago i hacked together a quick nowplaying script for xchat, which communicated with rhythmbox on the same system using the python dbus bindings. I could probably have found a preexisting script, but i enjoy doing things for myself, and learned a bit about python and dbus in the process.
Now, that was all fine and dandy when i was using xchat on the same system, but as eveyone knows, the only true way to irc is via irssi in screen on a remote, always-connected system. And as such, when i subsequently got this linode, i switched to using irssi, and bemoaned the loss of my ability to annoy people by telling them what i was listening to.
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