September 25th, 2006 — php
The other day I was making a mix cd for jamie, putting the cd together wasn’t a problem but I never know what to put on the top. Typically I take a sharpie and try to cram the playlist onto the top of the cd. So that is what I did, but I was trying to think of a better solution. I was thinking that if I could parse the playlist and get the artist info out of the track names I could use the flickr api to find interesting photos with that artists name as a tag. Then I could make a block out of the interesting images and print it on the top of a mix cd. It mostly worked…
It turned out I couldn’t find any decent piece of code to parse the playlists so I kinda hacked around that problem. I think if you don’t keep your mp3’s in an Artists/Album/Tracks hierarchy it will fail miserably. The other issue is tag overlap. For example: There is a panda bear named Bright Eyes, there is also an Artist named Bright Eyes, if you look here you will see some musicians and a bunch of pandas.
I’ll follow up with more details. Ideally my next step is to export this to a template I can print, rather than a screenshot. Mike suggested I may be able to integrate this into serpentine, it would be much nicer to work in python rather than php. *shudder*
September 25th, 2006 — del.icio.us
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phpFlickr is a lgpl licensed php implementation of the flickr api. I’ve found it fairly easy to work with and there are several good examples on their site.
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This is an example of getting interesting photos out of flickr based on tags. I’m curious if the api respects licenses and I’ll have to check that out.
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This is a follow up to a previous link. Here is an in-depth review of Pandora with a follow up article on Last.fm
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Second part of the radio review. Turns out it’s a pretty shoddy review. No mention of radio stations. Maybe the Pandora part was bad too…
September 23rd, 2006 — del.icio.us
September 22nd, 2006 — treo
September 18th, 2006 — del.icio.us
September 15th, 2006 — del.icio.us
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Just another t-shirt site. when i find an amusing one i try to keep it around.
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Some dudes blog, i like some of the stuff on it so i’m marking it for ideas. found it while looking for interesting things to do with audioscrobbler.
September 12th, 2006 — del.icio.us
September 10th, 2006 — wordpress
Recently I migrated my blog from pyblosxom to wordpress. For the most part it has been a nice switch but there’s been one snag. Before I ran wordpress I had my own blog software running. I mostly converted those posts over to pyblosxom, but I did half assed job at it. Now, of course this has come back to bite me in the ass causing about 70 posts to be dated at the epoch. I’ve been fixing those and other random errors some since then but I’ve notice that some of the entries end up getting syndicated. For the most part this isn’t a big deal since no one looks at this site but planet cosi has been getting spammed by me a bit.
Sorry about that.
September 10th, 2006 — stupid meme
September 6th, 2006 — del.icio.us
