interesting ideas.. I have no idea if track listings are available in any feed-like form, someone from the BBC may be able to answer that.
But now that you mention 6 Music, I suddenly remembered reading about phonetags on 6 Music a few months ago (see http://rnd.historicalfact.com/phonetags/). This sounded like a very cool idea, letting you bookmark/rate/tag songs by sending a text message while the song is playing. I'm not sure what the current state of it is though (there's a "pre-alpha working demo" badge on the site).
On 12/2/05, Al Petfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is great stuff Mario.
On a related note, is there a way to make tracklistings (example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/vic_mcglynn/tracklisting.shtml)
available as feeds? It might only be 6 Music that has them (I haven't
researched extensively) but here are a couple of ideas of what you
could do with them:
1) You could extend your now/next to show the last track played. If I
was looking for a radio station to listen to then I might make a more
informed decision if I could see what the last 10 tracks played were.
2) If you tie up the tracklisting with the listen again files, then
you could have an application that could index listen again files. If
you were to provide the application with preferences (using Last.fm
data perhaps) then it could cue up relevant tracks.
I've looked at these tracklistings pages whilst listening to the shows
and it seems that the tracks are added after they've finished, usually
within about 5 minutes. Now if they were added just *before* they were
played (and were available for all BBC Radio stations) then you could
have an application that scans across all the stations and picks
between different stations according to what they're playing. You
could set a preferred station (a default that it uses if it can't find
anything that you like) and then a list of artists that you like. If
the application finds a track about to play on another station that
you like then it will crossfade to that station. You could extend this
further by using something like the 'Similar Artists' part of Last.fm
(example: http://www.last.fm/music/Buck+65/+similar) with an
'adventurous' setting - strict (only play the artists I listed), near
(uses the top 10 similar artists), go on surprise me (uses the top 50
similar artists).
Hope I haven't rambled too much/off topic,
Al
On 12/2/05, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Due to popular demand (ok, there was one request for it), I have started to
> produce "now/next" RSS/Atom feeds for all available radio stations. Full
> list of feeds can be browsed at
> http://backstage.menti.name/atom/, or (with brief
> explanations added) at http://backstage.msurveys.com .
>
> Now that I've added radio feeds, the naming for the non-channel-specific TV
> feeds isn't ideal anymore, but since it looks like there are some people
> actually using these feeds, I haven't changed any existing feed names.
>
> Added feeds for all available radio stations:
> * radionownext.xml what's on now/next on all BBC Radio channels
> * radionow.xml what's on now on all BBC Radio channels
> * radionext.xml what's on next on all BBC Radio channels
> * radio1.xml what's on now/next on Radio 1
> * radio2.xml what's on now/next on Radio 2
> * radio3.xml what's on now/next on Radio 3
> * radio4.xml what's on now/next on Radio 4
> * radio5live.xml what's on now/next on Radio 5 Live
> * radio5extra.xml what's on now/next on Radio 5 Extra
> * radio6music.xml what's on now/next on Radio 6 Music
> * 1xtra.xml what's on now/next on 1Xtra
> * bbc7digital.xml what's on now/next on BBC Seven Digital
> * bbcasian.xml what's on now/next on BBC Asian
>
> Also, in case anyone wants them, combined TV and Radio feeds:
> * tvradionownext.xml what's on now/next on BBC TV and Radio
> * tvradionow.xml what's on now on BBC TV and Radio
> * tvradionext.xml what's on next on BBC TV and Radio
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