The blowfish keys are easily grabbed after an update, it is off course a cat and mouse game, but overall pianobar and other stand-alone clients seem to be doing fairly well at keeping up.

I don't listen to music using the flash interface anymore, the biggest problem is that after just an hour or two of listening the flash application is using a HUGE amount of memory and is hogging one of my cores at 90%. Flash on Mac OS X was never anything to write home about ...