RE: [backstage] What's playing now...

[Dan Hill]

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Hi all   We have tracklistings for most music shows across most networks, broadly speaking - sometimes just after the track gets played, sometimes after the entire show has finished (in the case of a lot of Radio 3 shows, for example)    As we move to hard-disk-based playout systems, we can increasingly offer the kind of automated service you see on 6 Music i.e. tracklistings emerging throughout the show as tracks get played; track now playing in LiveText - the scrolling text you see on a DAB Digital Radio LCD screen or when listening to the radio over our DTT Freeview services etc. That kind of information ("The track now playing is...") is also available across several networks on LiveText, irrespective of whether hard-disk playout is in place e.g. 1Xtra, which is often off vinyl, has the programme team entering those details into LiveText.   We're working on projects to use the tracklisting information in hard-disk-based playout systems across the website and also make better use of LiveText across the websites as well as DAB and DTT, possibly even using SMS as part of that little ecosystem - watch that space, but don't hold your breath :) There are legal as well as techical hurdles to overcome, as ever.   So for now, we aim to provide tracklistings on the websites across all music shows wherever we can - technical and resource limitations willing. And we aim to get this better and better going forward. But it's not something we're able to just turn on across all networks just yet - as RSS, API or even just accurately updated HTML. LiveText is your best bet for accurately updated track now playing info at the moment.   hth, Dan Hill   Dan Hill Head of Interactive Technology and Design BBC Radio and Music Interactive e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 020.776.55299 m: 07711.664.994     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2005 14:51 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] What's playing now... I too would love to see some sort of service like this on R1 and R2. I'm not sure about sending the song out via SMS, but surely a webpage detailing the last 10 songs played shouldn't be too difficult? (OK I'm no developer, but surely it should be possible)   It'd definitely be music to people's ears (pun not intended!) - no more annoying "what's that song that's just played" on the radio business. I know there's Shazam et al, but the prices they charge are a bit of a rip-off, at 50p per track. So if you've heard a number of songs on the radio, it could be rather costly. Also, some R1 & R2 (Steve Wright seems to do this fairly often) presenters don’t always back-announce the songs. I know R2 has a playlist on its website after the show, but it can be difficult to tell which song was played when as it does not have times.   Virgin does something like this on their website - http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/nowplaying/   They also display the name of the current playing track as well. I’d like to see the BBC expand on this and provide the artist/track title of the last 10 played songs. I know R1 does display the currently playing track and artist on some shows, so they do have the technology to at least display the current playing song. Whether this is updated manually, or taken from a feed I don’t know – perhaps someone in the know would like to expand on it?       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Plowright Sent: 25 July 2005 12:54 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] What's playing now...   What about running a stream through some kind of acoustic fingerprint lookup service like MusicBrainz or Shazam? As I don't think this kind of data will be available in the near future...   Kim   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hirst Sent: 25 July 2005 11:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] What's playing now...     If server load isn;t really an issue, I'd love to have access to a 'what's playing now/what's just played' feed...   As well as tickers, there are a stack of potential mobile applications...   eg mre often than not, there'll be a tune playing on a music station that i miss the name of/miss the artist, and I would love to be able to send a txt ("wjp radio1") and a get a msg back with attributions for the last 3 tunes (and perhaps download links for those tunes from an online music store, or reservation links to add the appropriate album to my amazon wichlist)   tony     - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.  To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.     - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.  To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.