The "Now Playing" Feature

Notice the "Now Playing" widget in the right sidebar? Just goes to show the awesome things you can do in Python in one evening. It's basically a Rhythmbox plugin that sends information about the currently playing song over HTTP. A small PHP script takes that and writes a simple Javascript file that just does a document.write() which is then included in the sidebar. Awesome! :-) I still have a few improvements to make (like add a configuration window, write my own asynchronous URL loader so I can POST the information etc.) and I will put it on the Third Party Rhythmbox plugins page. Here's how it looks like, in case you pass by at a time when I'm not listening to anything (probably sleeping or at school... or both):