Well I think for the sake of speed I'm going to have to lose last.fm scrobbling for now. Looking through the documentation and the example script that is provided it relies on Audio-Scrobbler which, as you can see, is normally available via CPAN. I'm not sure if the full perl CPAN is on the N900 or not, and frankly it doesn't matter, trying to code an auto-installation of that would be silly.

An easier solution would be to package Audio-Scrobbler, make it an optional dependency of pyPianobar, and coding in a check for whether it is installed or not when someone goes to use the Last FM scrobbling feature.

But, I really don't want to have to maintain any more software for a phone I don't even get to use. So, as it is, I should be able to get the latest pianobar up and running tonight, and I'll remove the Last.FM menu options from pyPianobar, and have newer versions of both submitted to the repositories.

It's a shame, I really did like the Last.FM feature of pianobar and thought it really made it stand out from the rest. Now the biggest benefit to it is solely that there is no "skip" limit like on the official apps (and the significantly smaller overhead).