During the last weekend I wanted to have some fun with QJson. So I came out with this idea: retrieve from last.fm the tour dates of my favourite artists and display the locations using Marble.
After some hacking I created this small application: rockmarble…
If you have a last.fm account rockmarble will import your favourite artist list. Otherwise you can add one artists at a time.
The tour location will be displayed inside Marble, using openstreetmap.
Requirements
In order to build/run it you will need:
Installation
You can grab the source code of rockmarble here.
If you are an openSUSE user you can use 1click install:
Issues
Geolocalization
The geolocalization data are given by last.fm, so if you discover that Metallica are going to give a concert in the middle of the Pacific Ocean please don’t bother me :)
Special names
It seems that QJson doesn’t handle properly special characters. Maybe you will some artist with a blank name. I’m going to fix this issue asap.
More details
Visit rockmarble website
Future
Who wants to integrate it into amarok’s context view? ;)