Hi Dave, Good comments.
We've just updated it so it now works for Radio 1, Radio 2, 6Music and 1Xtra. Nice idea about generating a Flash from HTML version. Will look into. We're doing some more work around 'what happens when nothing is playing'. At present we have 3 modes - playing (we know the song), paused (song began more than 4 mins ago so we assume its over) and 'stopped' (last song was started more than 10 mins ago - so assume bad data, or no VCS data. We'll look at display modes for each of those - yeah, perhaps displaying previous tracks information etc... We're enjoying the positive response to the prototype both in and out of the Beeb. S On 10/1/08 16:57, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/01/2008, Simon Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from >> across the web, and lives at... http://www.simoncross.com/music/radio1/ > > Very cool! > >> 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. > > With the Ming libraries (which are developed as part of the GNU Gnash > project) it might be possible to generate the Flash version from the > web standards version, keeping feature parity and not discriminating > against users for whom the Flash version in inaccessible for some > reason. > >> At the moment, we've just got as far as last.fm, flickr and the webcam, but >> its a start! >> >> Comments welcome! > > Please consider: > > * publishing the source code of the serverside component under a free > software license so we are free to learn how it works to build our own > prototypes and perhaps even contribute features to this project > > * changing the way it handles nothing being played now, from "Now > Playing: More songs coming soon... Nothing playing right now" and no > more to "Now Playing: Nothing playing right now. Previous track was > ..." and all the information about the last played track. > > * adding links to venue sites for the event items (if you can; non > commercial restrictions may prohibit this?) > > * adding links to ticket sites for the event items (even more likely > to die thanks to the non commercial restrictions...) > > * linking the Top 10 tracks to YouTube queries of those strings (or is > that commercial too?) - 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]/
