You rock man. Log Jam works perfectly for what I need. I look forward to any improvements you come up with!

-Cheers,
--Guardian Bob

I suggest a command line option for setting the currently playing music, so that I can alias:

% logjam -m `script saying what is playing`

it would be nice for us that don't use XMMS.

What sort of music program / script are you using?
Would it make sense for the "autodetect" button (which is normally next to the music field, if you compiled in XMMS support) to work with an arbitrary script like yours?

I use moosic, which runs as a daemon, and have a script that shows what it is doing for the moment.

I guess mapping the auto-detect button to an arbitrary command would work as well. But I think it should be possible to have the field filled automatically some way.

Oh, neat... I've been working on a project with similar functionality to moosic, actually.

I was always annoyed when the Windows client would fill in the music for me, so I figured clicking a button once before posting wouldn't be too bad. Do you think it'd be better to fill it in by default and let the user erase it if they wanted?

I only know that _I_ always want to fill in the music field, as long as I am listening to something. Another option? LogJam's preferences dialog isn't exactly crammed, so I don't think it would hurt.

You can check out Moosic here. I'm having some issues with it, so I am thinking of making a clone. In the mean time, I am relying on a set of zsh-aliases to control it.

The functionality to specifiy a music command is now in CVS: read more.

Another thing that bugs me with LogJam is the login dialog that pops up at startup. Beeing a dial-up user I usually write my entry before I connect to the net. One could expect the "Don't automatically login" preference to suppress this dialog. But that does not appear to be the case.

I'm going to make this a toplevel post because there are a few issues with it.