Radio 1: Now Playing vs. Web Data
Post categories: prototypes
| 13:26 UK time, Thursday, 10 January 2008
A new prototype based on Radio 1's now playing data but this time from a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ member of staff working in their 10% project. Simon goes into details.
We're working on a new 10% time project over here at FM&T Audio and Music - and we thought we'd give you guys a super sneak preview. There's a few of us involved here, including Yasser Rashid, Cathy Bartlet and Ramon Dodd.Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from across the web.
The plan for this is to eventually build a flash version which is full-screenable to provide a visual companion while listening in the office, or on the web etc. Future data sources we hope to build on include Musicbrainz, Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics,Yahoo Music and loads more. At the moment, we've just got as far as last.fm, flickr and the webcam, but its a start!
