Tim, Looking quite good for a prototype. Do you know about http://musicbrainz.org/ and how it integrates into the http://www.bbc.co.uk/music system?
An example "Massive Attack" is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/10adbe5e-a2c0-4bf3-8249-2b4cbf6e6ca8* ?* * * * * On 31 January 2010 19:19, Tim Coysh <tjcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello BBC Backstage, > > In the last few weeks I have been working on a simple system, similar to > Chris Riley's trackplaying, of showing the currently playing song on BBC > Radio and providing some information about the song and artist. I have never > sent an email to a mailing list before, but I am hoping this would be the > best way of telling BBC enthusiasts about my site. The site is currently > designed to be user-friendly, and uses a simple design and interface. > > In addition to the main feature of showing the currently playing song, I > have compiled a list of all songs which have been 'scrobbled' to the BBC > Radio 1 last.fm account (Which is where the information is retrieved) > since its creation in 2005. This could hopefully prove to be very useful in > finding 'trends' of songs played etc. Depending on the amount of use this > gets, I will create a database for the other radio stations as well. > > I am fairly new to web programming, only starting last year. I was hoping > this website could be a way to expand my website programming knowledge and > so far its proved to be very good at that. > > The site is located at http://www.radio1now.co.cc > > Thanks, > > Tim Coysh > > > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
