Excellent stuff Tim, will post to the backstage blog soon.
I was thinking the other day, wouldn't it be interesting if it could also work
slightly behind the time. So if you were listening to radio on catch up it
would have the exact information as showed before. I guess you also match the
time delay with audioscrobbler to create the same effect? Or even better if you
were listening to the podcast, it replay all the meta for that slice of time.
Humm, maybe a diagram will make more sense than explaining it?
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Coysh
Sent: 31 January 2010 22:56
To: backstage
Subject: Re: [backstage] New prototype
Brian,
Yes I do, Thanks anyway. I havent used this feature much, as the
Musicbrainz ID Tag is not usually scrobbled. If you look in the Similar Artists
box, you can see the BBC Music Link there.
Tim Coysh
On 31 January 2010 20:35, Brian Butterworth <[email protected]>
wrote:
Tim,
Looking quite good for a prototype. Do you know about
http://musicbrainz.org/ and how it integrates into the
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music system?
An example "Massive Attack" is at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/10adbe5e-a2c0-4bf3-8249-2b4cbf6e6ca8 ?
On 31 January 2010 19:19, Tim Coysh <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello BBC Backstage,
In the last few weeks I have been working on a simple
system, similar to Chris Riley's trackplaying, of showing the currently playing
song on BBC Radio and providing some information about the song and artist. I
have never sent an email to a mailing list before, but I am hoping this would
be the best way of telling BBC enthusiasts about my site. The site is currently
designed to be user-friendly, and uses a simple design and interface.
In addition to the main feature of showing the
currently playing song, I have compiled a list of all songs which have been
'scrobbled' to the BBC Radio 1 last.fm account (Which is where the information
is retrieved) since its creation in 2005. This could hopefully prove to be very
useful in finding 'trends' of songs played etc. Depending on the amount of use
this gets, I will create a database for the other radio stations as well.
I am fairly new to web programming, only starting last
year. I was hoping this website could be a way to expand my website programming
knowledge and so far its proved to be very good at that.
The site is located at http://www.radio1now.co.cc
Thanks,
Tim Coysh
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