This Index Knows Where a Song Is Playing Right Now, Not Just What It Is
Twelve things you could build on a live index of internet radio
Tuneping tracks roughly 58,000 internet radio stations, with about 23,000 announcing a title at any moment. Every title change is logged, matched against MusicBrainz, and classified as a song, ident, programme, ad break, or junk. The live search needs no key, so you can type an artist and find stations playing them right now. History, wishlists, and the event stream sit behind a key. The site pitches twelve builds on top, from a reverse Shazam to radio charts and airplay reports.
Shazam tells you what song is playing. This tells you where a song is playing.
- conradfr
I run an open source webradios webapp side project[0] that basically do this mass polling for song titles, using Elixir genservers. It all runs on an small oversized EX44 Hetzner server amongst other apps.
I thought of extending it to offer what Tuneping apparently does but couldn't imagine who would need that. I guess Tuneping (which I guess is OP's site) proves there's a market? ;)
- saulpw
> First the shape of the thing, because every idea below rests on it.
- SwellJoe
If you can't be bothered to take the time to clean up the incoherent Claudespeak, I'm not going to bother trying to read it.