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My Last.fm ScrobRealplayer plugin is compatible with the latest RealPlayer SP media player.

I found the following notes from Sep 2007.  I don't want to lose them so I'm dumping them here with the rest of my random stuff.....   This is somewhat dated but it documents some of the makings of the ScrobRhapsody and ScrobRealplayer projects.  (I doubt if there ever will be a part 2 :/)   Although a Now Playing plugin for Rhapsody was the original plan, after more than a few stumbles along the way it now appears a more realistic plan may be to create a plugin for...

Connecting the Rhapsody version 4 client to the Last.fm social network may of got just a little bit easier.  Today I released a Rhapsody plug-in named ScrobRhapsody as beta software.  ScrobRhapsody is a plug-in that works in the background while the Rhapsody player is running.  ScrobRhapsody implements the ScrobSub library provided by the folks at Audioscrobbler.  The ScrobSub library is the official Last.fm development library for extending the Last.fm service to...

Okay. This one definitely sent me down the garden path. Using the Internet setup.exe along with msistuff.exe to create an internet based windows installer resulted in random 1619 errors. Title: "Windows Installer Installation Wrapper" Message: "An error occured installing the package. Windows Installer returned '1619'." Short answer in my case: use 8.3 filenames for the exe and msi files.

The site has been down since the hosting server upgraded to PHP 5.  I have finally took the time to research the problem and the solution.  The error log contained "The PDO extension is required for this adapter but the extension is not loaded".   the phpinfo showed --with-pdo-mysql=shared which led me to the conclusion that the PDO extension for mysql was in fact installed.  What was missing was a couple of statements to get the extensions loaded. The fix...