Submitted by johnh on July 11, 2004 - 03:48.
Blogger, meet 'now playing' IRC script. Both of you, meet Windows Media Player, and now apparently also iTunes.
There's an idea trying to take root in my head right now involving...
1 All of that,
2 Amazon Web Services,
3 Internet radio stations,
4 ...
5 Profit!
...but it's not quite fully-formed yet.
martin (not verified) | July 11, 2004 - 20:57
Oops, just realised that that's the old version. The current version writes an RSS file ;-) I've not documented it yet because I've not had time (and it's a bit complex as it uses a helper app or two to handle Unicode in AppleScript, without which my collection of Cuban music is missing all of its é (e-acute) characters).
JH (not verified) | July 13, 2004 - 00:33
Nah.
I'm thinking more along the lines of sniffing live radio for currently-playing info and providing a buy button for the song on now, maybe with a media player plugin which has my Amazon code embedded in it...
It's kind of like the server-side product we made at Userfrenzy 4 years ago (still not duplicated by anything, notably), but distributed and free-as-in-beer for both stations and end-users.
I can feel a renaissance of the old Frenzy technology coming on. But then my old co-conspirator and I have already started work on that, so it'll be no surprise to him...
martin (not verified) | July 11, 2004 - 20:54
Something based on this, which results in this (which my site displays as this) perhaps?
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