And now an RSS application idea of my own…
4 October 2004Quickly, before I go to bed. Audioscrobbler, as I might have mentioned before, has lots of potential, all that aggregated data from lots of music fans, the trends and links between different artists has plenty of applications. And I’ve just come up with an idea while thinking about organising mp3 collections.
If you want a set of songs from your (legitimately acquired) mp3 collection of similar bands or artists, you could use Audioscrobbler’s data. You have an app that would first scan through your mp3 collection and group your files by artist. It would then ask you for a ‘pivot’ artist (say you wanted to listen to bands like Oasis) and then screen-scrape (or better still, we ask AS to provide an RSS version of) the “Related Artists” page for that artist. Any file that you have by an artist on that list, it adds to a playlist file, which it then saves and launches for you.
I haven’t the time to do that at the moment, what with the course and me being in a permanent state of mild panic (plus my client-side coding skills are not what they used to be), but any bored music-loving geek might want to give it a go…
