I'm actually thinking of the bigger picture with a easy way to relay this information to multiple social networking/chat networks...
One thing to our advantage is squeezebox server does a "ok" job sending played songs to audioscrobbler's RSS feed via your lastFM account. Since facebook, twitter, trillian, aim, yahoo, etc all have their own way of displaying a status message, it makes sense to look for a common standard. ie, an RSS or ATOM feed. It probably wouldnt take too long for someone to make small plugins to something like plugin, facebook, etc to replace the user's status message with the lastest update from audioscrobbler. For example: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/mkanet/recenttracks.rss (Please dont laugh at what I listen to :) I didnt look hard enough for a good solution to do this for at least Trillian Astra... but, I think RSS might be the way to go since most apps/sites are RSS-friendly. If someone figures out a way to do with without requiring for me to write a universal Now Playing app for various services, I'm sure they would be a pretty popular person. Music services such as Pandora already update facebook and twitter... its just a matter of time before Logitech/squeeze community realizes this is something desirable for social networking/chat apps like Trillian. I might be just a little bit ahead of the times... but things are slowly catching on... with people realizing the benefits of such features... -MKANET bobkoure;515043 Wrote: > Well, the "now playing" info is available on a per=player basis from the > server's CLI interface. > As an easy example, you can get the current artwork for a particular > player using the following address in your browser. > -http://<server>:<port>/music/current/cover.jpg?player=<playerid>- > Have a look at -http://<server>:<port>/en/html/docs/cli-api.html- for > a description of the CLI interface. > > This is only useful if you're using your own server (once the basic SB > pattern, but I guess that's changing). -- mkanet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkanet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7965 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30007 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
