Yes, it would. We would know that it would get updated as new versions came & went.
But unless there's $$ in there i doubt they will bother. No doubt it's great for the user when it actually works
How does JRiver benefit from such a plugin ?
For all we know lastfm is just waiting for the right moment to go the way CDDB did.
You make JRiver look greedy and lazy
JRiver needs one thing more than $$, and that is (happy/new) customers/users. They have to improve their products all the time to beat the competition. Supporting a popular service like this would be a pretty easy way to get positive attention from new users.
Last.fm is a taste of the future, sky is the limit for all the cool stuff you can do when you plug into their content.
If i was looking for a new mediaplayer today, i would not have installed the MC-demo. Just because of its poor support for last.fm. And thats a shame!
If we had a better plugin there would be no need for Audiopod, and all other players that can record last played/playcount would be included. And if the submisson-servers of last.fm were down, the plugin would save its cache until it could submit.
For all we know J.river is just waiting for the right moment to go the way CDDB did.
Ideas:
to let Last.fm recomend music in MC, based on your taste , so you could preview and maybe buy/dl from whatever store MC supports.
Make the start-page dynamic and personal using last.fm feeds.
Load last.fm radio in MC