Sometimes a programmer gets an itch and they just have to scratch it. I’m not sure why I did these things but…
Some time ago I wrote about Audioscrobbler. Well, Two weeks ago I downloaded one of their plugins and made it so instead of sending the info about what I’m playing to them it also sends it to my website. That info is displayed partly in the left column of this site (at least for now) with a longer list here.
The last week I also hacked together something to read the local database of bookmarks and playlists from Listen.com / Rhapsody which I once compared to Apple’s iTunes Music Store. After it’s read it gets stored here (warning: ~2meg)
When all is said and done I have no idea why I wrote these things. There really isn’t much point. I did want to be able to show some people just how much music I’ve listened to on Rhapsody since I’m pretty happy with it and I think people that are around a computer often would find it useful but other than that…., well, at least I learned some new tech like the Amazon Webservices API and XSLT
Wow, I didn’t think you were into that stuff….
hi there — saw that you blogged about rhapsody and playlists, and thought you might be interested in checking out some blogs that are dedicated entirely to blogging rhapsody playlists. my blog is called rhapsody rock school (http://rockschool.blogspot.com) and another good one is called the rhapsody radish (http://www.scopecreep.com/Rhapsody), if you’re interested in checking them out. both blogs make it easy for rhapsody subscribers to check out new music without a lot of extra work. it’s a pretty cool feature. anyway, thought i’d let you know. take it easy~
matt
cool blogs.
My extractor extracts info so I could generate those links. Unfortunately you need to be a subscriber to rhapsody to listen at all. If rhapsody was smarter they would play the song if you subscribed and play 30 seconds through a normal browser if you didn’t. That way non-subscribers would get a taste of the service. They could also do the iTMS thing and offer to sell you the song for $0.99 without a rhapsody subscription.