Don't feel like you need to Retire yours because of Simon's, its still inspiring and the visual style is very different.
cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Riley Sent: 10 January 2008 18:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype This is very similar to something I've already done http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ It isn't as polished as the one you're producing, and since you are producing one I'll probably retire mine in a few weeks! Chris On 10/01/2008, Simon Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]/ > - 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]/ - 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]/
