Now playing
Post categories: prototypes
| 14:32 UK time, Tuesday, 13 November 2007
New Prototype from Chris Riley, instead of rating how in touch is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, he's scratching his own itch about the music playing over Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.
I've coded a hopefully useful, if not idea stimulating web page. It is called Now Playing https://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ and shows you information about the artist currently being played on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 1xtra, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 6 Music. It is based on some Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ data released at hack day, with Yahoo Pipes and JQuery thrown in.
I made it because when I'm listening to the radio I like to know a bit more about the artist. Have I heard some of their tracks or albums before? If I've no idea who they are what have they done in the past? How much can I buy their albums for, what has been released? What is on their website, do they have a website? Which artists are they like?
All those questions are answered by this new page. It is designed to update itself in real time with the current artist being played, and seems to work quite well. As always the best way to see what it does is to give it a go, and if you want more info about how it works, data sources, known issues etc. then there is an obligatory about page. https://cgriley.com/nowplaying/about.aspx
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