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]/
