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1 | Skybly

January 17th, 2004 at 7:45 pm

I googled "jtunes" and found the author's blog (I wasn't the only one, it seems!). He kindly directed me to the sourceforge page for the program (called blogtunes now).

Anyway, I installed it and it works like a charm There's not much documentation on usage, but you can set it up the same way as the "Hoverable Playlist" tutorial on virtualvenus.org

2 | Jennifer

January 18th, 2004 at 1:47 pm

Skybly – Awesome!!! Thank you! 😀

3 | Koldark

January 19th, 2004 at 7:37 pm

Well, I am trying it, but I don't know if I like it. It sends a trackback ping to your server. See here: http://www.koldark.net/archives/2004/Jan/19/see_what_i_am_listening_to.html. You will have to select the trackback link. I am sure something can be done with it, but as it stands, I don't like it very well.

4 | Jennifer

January 19th, 2004 at 7:50 pm

Weird… I never implemented the Winamp "listening to" stuff – How is this different? (I still haven't gotten to it yet – but I was going to try and use those instructions and apply them (as best as possible) to this…)

5 | Skybly

January 20th, 2004 at 3:02 am

It's really not very different from the Winamp version, except I think the format that the trackback ping comes in is a little different. I use MTMacros to parse the info from it and display it in a bit nicer fashion

As directed on virtualvenus.org, I set up a new blog, a category called "Incoming", and set the ping url in the BlogTunes config file to the trackback url of that category. Just my template looks different:

<MTMacroDefine name="nowplaying" pattern="m/^(.+?) played at .+? by (.+?) from the album, (.+?)$/i">
<MTAmazon method="Keyword" search="[MTMacroMatch position='2'] [MTMacroMatch position='3']" line="music" lastn="1">
<img src="<MTAmazonSmallImage>" alt="CD Cover" align="right" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="0" /><strong>Listening:</strong> <MTMacroMatch position='1'> (from <a href="<MTAmazonLink>"><MTAmazonTitle></a> by <MTAmazonArtist>) </MTAmazon>
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTPings category="Incoming" lastn="1">
<$MTPingExcerpt convert_breaks="0" apply_macros="1"$>
</MTPings>

This is a rather simplicistic version, not "hoverable" and it doesn't display anything if the album isn't found on Amazon (going to change that later). But the concept works. I'm including the result via PHP in my main blog, you can see it in the right sidebar.

6 | paolo

January 21st, 2004 at 12:07 pm

I didn't have added to my blog but I'm trying Audioscrobbler.com

A plugin (for xmms, winamp, itunes, windows media player, etc) submit what you are listening to the site. This information is presented in a user page such as mine
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/paolomassa/
and the last 10 tracks are exported also on XML
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/rss/history.php?username=paolomassa
(see http://wiki.audioscrobbler.com/index.php/Web%26RSS_Data).
The XML info can of course displayed on your site as you prefer.
I think they will export more information and statistics in future.

All the data are released under a Creative Commons license and are hence usefule for research too.

7 | serpensortia

January 29th, 2004 at 11:12 pm

blogtunes
*points to sidebar* See under the "me" section, there's a list of the songs I've played recently, automatically updated and…