This is in response to Seb's musiclogging piece, which prompted me to finally find a way to do what I've been trying to do for ages with SMIL.
- Syndicate your favourite MP3 blogs into a single page, using Bloglines or Kinja (example).
- Use the SMIL bookmarklet from Playr to play your aggregated page (you can then add the SMIL URL to your favourites in RealPlayer once it's started playing, for easy access next time).
- When you hear a track you like, click 'Recommend this track using WebJay' to add it to one of your playlists at WebJay (example).
- This playlist can then be syndicated by RSS, to complete the loop (example).
Notes: I wanted to add recommendations via del.icio.us, but they use a different 'add' url for each user, so it was impossible. You can also recommend tracks via SongBuddy. As for matchmaking, WebJay already shows all the related playlists based on shared links (example).
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Not sure I get #3. Is there a WebJay button in RealPlayer, or do you have to look up the playlist in a Web page, find the song that's playing, and then click recommend?
Also, in case Lucas is reading, sorting the related playlists in order of % overlap would be useful.
As an aside, I rather view people and songs, not playlists, as first-class citizens in that space. I think many users will be content to log into a single playlist - effectively, their songlog.
I could see Flickr enabling people to share their songlog(s) on their profile page. That would be very cool.
Further, I can't seem to make the bookmarklet work on a Bloglines display such as http://bloglines.com/public_display?username=sebpaquet&sub=1110908&site=161088 - turns out the page is script-fu, not plain HTML. So Kinja it is, I guess. (or some other web-based agg)
Nice touch, those favicons.
Seb, re: #3, RealPlayer displays an HTML page while it plays each track, and this contains a link to directly submit the playing track to WebJay or SongBuddy.
I think I've fixed the bookmarklet so it works with Bloglines now.
This is outrageously cool, Alf.
Seb: right now I'm sorting on popularity, so you see the most popular overlapping playlists first. Sorting in % overlap or otherwise doing smarter things with the similarities is a good idea. That whole area of functionality is ripe for improvement.
The bookmarklet seems to work with Bloglines now. YOU R00L. (though the archives at http://www.pmbrowser.info/playlists/new.php don't yet work)
I'm this close to caving in and installing RealPlayer. I'm still worried about the thing making a bloated mess on my Windows box. (see http://jogin.com/weblog/archives/000515/, http://jogin.com/weblog/archives/000504/)
Here's to hoping someone will come up with a Winamp plugin of some sort to let me publish my favorite songs - if that is at all possible...
For reference I'll post the link Alf sent me in private:
How to make RealPlayer 10 behave nicely - http://www.pmbrowser.info/hublog/archives/000664.html
The links on the archive page should be working now, thanks.
Re: Winamp plugin, I've found this lead - http://drpizza.arsware.org/nowplaying/ via
http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/help.html
This app is an excellent idea. btw it's interesting reading everybody's comments here, it's kind of like an 'on-the-fly project wiki' - Seb providing requirements, Alf developing it, Lucas contributing. You can see how the app is progressing just by following the comments, and there's a record of development.
I'll shut up now.