thanks fatalsaint i deleted the /home/user/.config/pianobar/config file and made a new one and it started working... i think the issue might have been that i had made the file in windows and used scp to put it on the n900, maybe something to do with windows and unix file format? anyway it works now and thats all i care about! and the autostart station works as well! This quickly becoming the most used app on my phone