A neat little feature added to the linuxcaffe.ca website, and you can have one too ;)

Simply add this line to your song change plugin in xmms:

echo %s > /tmp/nowplaying.txt && sh ~/nowplaying.sh

In nowplaying.sh, put the following:

curl -T /tmp/nowplaying.txt -u "ftpusername":"ftppassword" ftp://yoursever.com/your_web_directory/nowplaying.txt

Finally, on the relevant page on your site (in this case all of them), use the following PHP code (adopt to your programming language of choice):

$filename = "/filesystem/path/to/nowplaying.txt";
$fh = file_get_contents($filename);
echo $fh;

Could it get any easier? Most definitely. Does it work, and work well? Absolutely. Curl is genius.

I took a peek at the linuxcaffe page again and saw something about some guy Rob Crow hating another guy named Rob Crow...