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?
Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC R&D North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ ________________________________ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] 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 <briant...@freeview.tv> 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 <tjcr...@gmail.com> 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 -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002