Ooh, very nice work, I like it! It works pretty seamlessly here on my work PC - except the work proxy has prevented the last.fm images from loading, because that site's blocked.
I did consider (but didn't quite get around to making) something similar for my last office, where we were big 6 Music listeners. I don't suppose there's any chance of being able to select other networks too? Perhaps there could also be a history of the last couple of songs played (and their times). cheers, Martin On 1/9/08, Simon Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Backstage faithful, > > Its a rarity on this list ;-) but heres a kinda product (or at least and > idea) announcement > > We're working on a new 10% time project over here at FM&T Audio and Music > - > and we thought we'd give you guys a super sneak preview. Theres a few of > us > involved here, including Yasser Rashid, Cathy Bartlet and Ramon Dodd. > > Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from > across the web, and lives at... http://www.simoncross.com/music/radio1/ - > its temporarily on a personal server as our infrastructure here at the BBC > doesn't currently allow us to do this kind of thing :-( > > The plan for this is to eventually build a flash version which is > full-screenable to provide a visual companion while listening in the > office, > or on the web etc. > > Future data sources we hope to build on include Musicbrainz, Wikipedia, > YouTube, song lyrics,Yahoo Music and loads more. At the moment, we've just > got as far as last.fm, flickr and the webcam, but its a start! > > Comments welcome! > > S > > - > 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/[email protected]/ >
