I am currently in heavy development for making my music playlist controller application be fleshed out, and potentially available for other people to be able to use. I am calling it the "PyMP'D Playlist" (pronounced "pimped playlist"), which is a Python-based Music Played Daemon (MPD) Playlist controller that manages the construction and control of the playlist in MPD using my current set of rules. Right now, it is very buggy and not recommended to be used unless you are intimately familiar with the code, but as of today, it now is scrobbling my music as I play it (again), so…

I got fed up with SqueezeBox Server, and Logitech's insistence that I must buy a SqueezeBox to really get the full benefits of the system… and the SqueezeBox Server's insistence to send a "Welcome to SqueezeBox Server" message on the stream I was listening to in the title for the songs… of every song.

So… I ditched that software. I now am using Music Player Daemon (MPD), with some carefully constructed python code that generates a playlist for MPD to play. Along with lastfmscrobbled, and lastmp… I have my music being played, as a stream, in the most simple method…

It took a little time, and research, but I'm finally free of the iTunes control over my music I had gotten into.

It started with me getting an iPhone… yes, I was an early adopter, got it the 2nd day the iPhone hit the market. I then proceeded to load my music library onto my phone, unfortunately it couldn't hold everything. So I discovered smart playlists, and a trick to have iTunes, when it synchronizes with my phone, actually remove played songs from the phone and add new ones into it.

Then… I got increasingly complex with my playlists… doing…