Re: [backstage] Music Hack Day

2009-06-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Lindsay Sent: 20 June 2009 12:10 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Music Hack Day Hey all, I'm peripherally involved with the organisation of the upcoming Music Hack Day http

[backstage] Music Hack Day

2009-06-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hey all, I'm peripherally involved with the organisation of the upcoming Music Hack Day http://musichackday.org/, and I only just realised it didn't get a mention here. It will be 11-12 July 2009, at Guardian Offices near Kings Cross, London. It'll be a weekend event about music APIs, with

Re: [backstage] Track Playing (http://www.trackplaying.com)

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Wow! Looks good. I've not been tracking backstage very closely, so I'm a bit baffled as to where you're getting your currently-playing feeds from. I had been depending on the AMI hackday feeds, which were turned off last month. Whatever you use, I'd love to hook it back up to my

Re: [backstage] Track Playing (http://www.trackplaying.com)

2008-08-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Erp, I hate self-repliers. I just re-read Chris's message from 1 August, which gave some URLs. James Cridland's disclaimers and promises of what were to come put me off relying on them deploying http://recom.me/ adam Adam Lindsay wrote: Wow! Looks good. I've not been tracking backstage

Re: [backstage] So was *this* what Mr. Cridland was referring to recently?

2008-06-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Christopher Woods wrote: Tech question - what encoder(s) are you using? If it's software in realtime or close-to-realtime, please (please please) say it's Lame 3.97. If the backend is using the Fraunhofer FhG codec, I think I might contemplate going and banging my head against a wall for a

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alia, Again, that looks nifty. For my thinking, though, I'd be much more drawn to the feature vectors that you're extracting, especially as it could possibly be combined with: http://developer.echonest.com/docs/analyze Any possibility of this happening? adam Alia Sheikh wrote: Hi again!

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
* on the day about where the rgb values come from and how to generate them from scratch. Alia-currently-typing-this-with-one-finger-while-eating-lunch Adam Lindsay wrote: Alia, Again, that looks nifty. For my thinking, though, I'd be much more drawn to the feature vectors that you're extracting

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-07 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steve Jolly wrote: Jonathan Tweed wrote: Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with offensive short codes. You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in them. This is deliberate ;-) Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge -

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Martin Deutsch wrote: But if you're talking well-designed URLs for journey planning, see: http://www.traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/birmingham/8:00 Thank you for that site pointer. An excellent example, and a great one to bookmark! adam - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

Re: [backstage] iPhone Apple opens up iPhone to app developers

2007-10-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steve Jolly wrote: Brian Butterworth wrote: Why does it take four months to publish a SDK? Surely Apple must be using the SDK already to create their own applications? Steve Jobs gives a reasonable explanation in his announcement - that they want to implement a robust security model for

[backstage] iPhone SDK news

2007-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/ Native third party applications on the iPhone (and iPod touch) will be enabled via an SDK as of February 2008. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] iPlayer usage

2007-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
nick richards wrote: Hi guys, I saw a del.icio.us post from Tom Coates earlier asking how many people actualy *use* the iPlayer: I went back and noticed that the original poster's question wasn't answered: are there any plans to reveal statistics on iPlayer usage? adam - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] O2 wins Apple iPhone deal - at a hefty price

2007-09-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
Ian Forrester wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/17/mobilephones.apple (I'm quite curious about the as much as 40% of any revenues quote in the article: everywhere else has reported a consensus of 10%.) In the light of the amount of unlocking or hacking going on. Don't