Ideas for Improved MP3 Playlist
Yeah, I had the MP3 playlist in my sidebar finished for all of, oh, a half-hour or so when I got to thinking, “I could think of a better way to use DoSomething to catalog my MP3 listening.”
Yeah, you take data from The Great CD Preservation Project, put the song’s title, artist, and album in a database, and have DoSomething run a submit URL run … and it pushes the title, artist, and album through a POST to indicate what’s been played. Run a couple regexp’s to parse the data in the POST, run a MySQL query, look for the song, post_count++.
This is me, thinking out loud again. If you read this and think, “Damn, Geof needs a hobby,” you’re missing the point that foofy stuff like this is my hobby.
Posted May 11th, 2004 in Geekery.
I think that’s understood that those things are your hobby. Most of us just sit back and say to ourselves, “Damn, that boy is a geek!” And I know this is something you’re proud of!
May 11th, 2004 at 12:31 pmAlways has been, always will be a geek. A high tech, sports loving, truck driving, Christian geek.
May 11th, 2004 at 7:40 pmI had dosomething running for a while and now I have 12,200 songs in a database I don’t know what to do with. Eventually I’d like the music section of my site to have an online representation of my music collection, complete with what I listen to most, Amazon links, et cetera.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:52 pmThis instead of the DaveJac board.
(kidding)
May 12th, 2004 at 12:15 amAlisa: kiss it.
Matt: I wouldn’t think that it would be all that hard. You’d populate another table in the database with all the information that you want, and tie ‘em with an id. [Seems to make sense to tie them together that way to me, anyway.]
Now, the cast-iron b***h would be populating Amazon links. Maybe Paul Bausch would have ideas on that.
May 12th, 2004 at 8:27 amgeez.. what are you a geek or somethin….
oh wait.. we’ve covered this… hehe
May 12th, 2004 at 9:29 amStill waiting on my iTunes solution.
May 12th, 2004 at 10:10 amIf you’re waiting on me, it’ll be a looooooooooooooong wait.
May 12th, 2004 at 10:17 amkiss what? wait… dont answer that.
May 13th, 2004 at 1:15 pm