<delurks> I had Surge (University of Southampton Student Radio Sation) on there until recently:
http://www.last.fm/user/surge I should get the bot active again. I was using a custom written perl script to submit the tracks we had been playing. I did start to wonder what the point of it was - other than publicity. Although it was quite insteresting to see people with similar tastes in music. Anyone concerned about last.fm competing with 'real' radio stations? - I guess they offer a bit of a different service... Has anyone else been using MusicBrainz identifiers for anything interesting... ? nick. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Ah, wonderful! That'll probably soon put an end to the "what song was > that" > type thing as you can simply go and check the last.fm page. :-) > > > > You'll be interested to note that Virgin Radio and BBC Radio networks are > not the only ones on last.fm. Q Radio is also on there, although without > not > as much 'camouflage' as the BBC and, now, Virgin feeds as it has a great > big > "Q" logo on etc - the address is http://www.last.fm/user/qradio > > > > Whatever they're using needs a bit of tweaking though, as if you look > through the recent tracks list, some songs are repeated at least 2 or 3 > times and some of the songs are not tagged properly - therefore resulting > a > few spelling errors (i.e. "Shinning light" by Ash), artist-title swap > arounds and odd titles ("Wake me up when September comes" by Green Day) > etc. > > > > > I'd be interested to know the technical set-up behind Virgin and the BBC's > last.fm pages though (i.e. how the track data gets from the playout system > to the last.fm page) - I'd gather it's not as simple as hooking up the > last.fm player to whatever you use for your playout - I use the > audioscrobbler plugin for Winamp but I'd gather your set-up(s) are > somewhat > more complex than mine! > > > > R1 and R2 for a short time had a logo on theirs, but it seems to have > disappeared. > > > > I wonder if there are any other radio stations on there, besides the ones > that have been mentioned? > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > > > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland > Sent: 28 October 2006 23:02 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] A sekrit from Virgin Radio > > > > In a similar vein to http://www.last.fm/user/sekrit etc, you might also > like... > http://www.last.fm/user/dickie_b_uk > http://www.last.fm/user/dickie_b_vc > http://www.last.fm/user/dickie_b_vx > http://www.last.fm/user/dickie_b_gr > ... mostly complete Virgin Radio station feeds, except the UK feed > ("Virgin > Radio") had a bug in it early on, so ignore the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams > are > made of this" which we didn't play 100 times. Hope they're useful for > someone. And... sssh. We've not told many people yet. > > Users here might also like http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/news/ which > is > a user-contributed music news service, complete with RSS/JSS feeds. I > don't > think we've published terms of use for our RSS feeds, but 'be sensible' > and > we'll be happy. > > Anyway. Hope someone finds all that useful. > > http://www.virginradio.co.uk/about_us/tech_blog/ > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
