[BNM] 6Music listener?
James Wragg
Listen to 6Music much? If so, I made a little site for myself the
other weekend that some of you may find handy:
http://nowplaying.jameswragg.com/
"Your BBC 6 Music companion. Updates along with the current playing
track, pulling in artist artwork, bio’s, links and searches Spotify."
Works best in browsers that support H/W accelerated CSS animations
(e.g. iOS/webkit), a bit clunky in FireFox, milage will vary with
other browsers. I've found it works particularly nicely wrapped as a
Fluid App.
Any ideas/suggestions let me know!
Cheers,
James
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Barry Prendergast
How is it powered? Mostly curious about the 'now playing' feed origins. My
only suggestion is that, if it was just 'Radio Companion' and I could pick
my own station or add my own, it would be something I would use all day
long.
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James Wragg
<barry.m.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is it powered? Mostly curious about the 'now playing' feed origins. My
> only suggestion is that, if it was just 'Radio Companion' and I could pick
> my own station or add my own, it would be something I would use all day
> long.
To my surprise I found 6 Music 'scrobbles' their tracks to Last.fm
under the account 'bbc6music', there's also a bbcradio1 and bbcradio2.
So, I cobbled together a PHP script that keeps polling the Last.fm API
(which is flakey as hell) and when a new track is added it pulls
search results from Spotify & the bbc artists db (e.g.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/d9c30c09-8ac6-4154-ad3a-bc81ab4ae8b5.json
) and munges together into my own json file.
In hindsight, I think pushing all the querying client-side might have
made it more scalable and provided faster updates. Oh well, another
project for a future grey weekend.
Karim Ahmed
James Wragg
I've just deployed a little treat for those running it in Fluid –
Growl notifications (optional). So if you have Growl installed,
restart the app and you should start seeing growls for new tracks.
Anyone got any pointers on how to integrate iTunes links?
Thanks,
James
Karim Ahmed
Karim Ahmed
James Wragg
hiccup as seems to have kicked off again now.
James