BBC Radio Player + Last.fm Yahoo! widget
UPDATE: I've updated the Yahoo! Widget and built one for OS X. Read all about it.
We all love Last.fm. But you can't update your profile with songs as you listen to the radio.. until now. We have built a Yahoo! Widget which does just that. Sign in to your Last.fm account and choose a BBC Radio station - Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music or 1Xtra - and the widget will display the current track along with some similar / recommended artists. The current track will be uploaded to your Last.fm profile automatically (but you can always opt-out), or you can manually add each track.
This is still an experiment / prototype / beta so I can't guarantee that it will behave itself or that the service will continue, but please have a play and let me know what you think.
As the widget requires communication with multiple sources asynchronously I created an Ajax class which allocates an XMLHttpRequest object for each request and releases it once the call has returned. Feel free to unwrap the widget and dissect the code...
BBC Radio Player + Last.fm Yahoo! widget
We all love Last.fm. But you can't update your profile with songs as you listen to the radio.. until now. We have built a Yahoo! Widget which does just that. Sign in to your Last.fm account and choose a BBC Radio station - Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music or 1Xtra - and the widget will display the current track along with some similar / recommended artists. The current track will be uploaded to your Last.fm profile automatically (but you can always opt-out), or you can manually add each track.
This is still an experiment / prototype / beta so I can't guarantee that it will behave itself or that the service will continue, but please have a play and let me know what you think.
As the widget requires communication with multiple sources asynchronously I created an Ajax class which allocates an XMLHttpRequest object for each request and releases it once the call has returned. Feel free to unwrap the widget and dissect the code...
BBC Radio Player + Last.fm Yahoo! widget
4 Comments:
Also, would be great if the radio player was embedded - when I tried it, it opened my real player as well. Don't know if this is something to do with my config, but it works well with my normal Dashboard radio player: http://www.phantomgorilla.com/widgets/bbcradio/
I will also have a look at keeping Real Player hidden on the Mac - it doesn't happen on Windows - but meanwhile feel free to edit the code yourself if you want to get your hands dirty!
Unfortunately I've never touched widget code of either kind so this would probably be a bit beyond me. Might have a go if I can find a spare weekend or something...
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