I just searched for "shell-fm" using the new Google Codesearch and found, that someone (Julien Boulnois) extended Shell.FM with a minimalistic GTK-GUI and ported the whole thing to ARM so it can run on GPE. I didn't know anything about this before, and I'm rather suprised. Have a look at it yourself: there's a simple homepage and an announcement on a GPE mailing list.

Regards,
Jonas

Now, when you tag something that already has some tags, those old tags are inserted into the tag line, so you can edit them (and they're not overwritten anymore).

Have fun.

Shell.FM Rev. 73 has some bugs fixed, some minor improvements and two new features:

* Custom Radio (what you can do on http://www.last.fm/listen/, but integrated into the player - just press "a" and enter some artists)

* Bookmarks - press H and a digit (0-9) to bookmark the currently played station. Later you can press that digit again to jump back to that station.

Have fun!

This is a short tutorial on how to make Shell.FM play streams you click on in firefox.

First get this script and place it somewhere. Then open the page "about:config" in Firefox. There, create three settings:

"network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm" of type string. The value should be the absolute path to the script you downloaded.

"network.protocol-handler.external.lastfm", type boolean, value true.

"network.protocol-handler.warn-external.lastfm", type boolean, value false.

That's it. If Shell.FM is running (and the socket interface is set up), it should now handle lastfm:// links you click in on Firefox.

Have fun.

Added two new features:

The socket interface now supports the command "info", followed by a format string (just like "np-file-format" in shell-fm.rc), which will return the requested information through the socket, so you can get infos about currently played tracks.

Added the format flag "%R", which is replaced with the remaining time of the currently played track in seconds.

Good night.

Jonas

As I wrote before, with the socket interface Shell.FM is controllable from almost anywhere. For people that have LIRC installed and running with a supported remote here's a script I wrote that interconnects LIRC and Shell.FM, so you can love, skip and ban tracks with your remote.

The script is specific to my control and config (I have a StreamZap remote), but those of you who managed to get LIRC run properly will also know how to modify the script to their needs (it should be enough to change the key codes, e.g. GREEN and RED to the codes you…

Shell.FM Rev. 53 is now available (svn://svn.syslinx.org/shell-fm/trunk). Jacek fixed a bug that caused loss of the radio history under some conditions, and I added a new feature which enables you to use an external player to play the streams. This is a kind of work-around for systems on which Shell.FM doesn't play the streams properly (e.g. Mac OS X), but might be useful for other things as well. Just set the option "extern" in your shell-fm.rc to a valid command, which Shell.FM will call and pipe the MP3 stream to. For example, if you want to play the stream with…

Hi again,

I got something nice for you Shell.FM users. Now that the socket interface of Shell.FM works (almost) perfectly, it's possible to control it from almost anywhere. Therefore, I wrote a small script that enables hotkeys for "skip", "ban", "love" and "quit" in the Z shell. You can simply append it to your ~/.zshrc or "source" it manually. After that, you can press ESC followed by n (next), B (ban), l (love) and Q (quit), just like in Shell.FM itself. If you don't like these keys, just change them in the script (look out for the "bindkey" commands).

Of…

Hi Shell.FM users,

I finally decided to use this journal for changelogs and such stuff, so our group hopefully will become a bit more active. Also feel free to use the group forum for suggestions, feature requests and stuff like that. Well, if sigsev can manage to activate it sometime…

I just committed rev. 48 to the shell.fm repository on svn.syslinx.org with quite a few bug fixes and some new features.

I guess the most interesting is that I spent some hours to find out how tagging works and to finally implement it. Now when you press "T" you can…