My upstairs neighbor and I were chatting the other day about how what we would really like is for the Apple Music Store tunes to have more and richer metadata - a supplement to our online libraries akin to the liner notes and album jackets we squirrel away.
What if, I mused, there was some integration with AllMusic.com? That would provide some information, at least.
After some surfing around this evening, it would appear that a tool like iChatStatus could provide part of the toolkit. At least, it proves there's some way to get the information out of iTunes about what's playing, etc.
For an interesting look at one implementation, take a look at this - that's a rendezvous home page I can get behind.....
Posted by esinclai at May 08, 2003 09:39 PM |
you want Kung-Tunes:
http://www.kung-foo.tv/itti.php
review: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030505071152875
while there check out Kung-Log - a remote posting tool for blogs that support the blogger API, as MT does.
http://www.kung-foo.tv/kunglog.php
usability review: http://www.maccessibility.com/archive/000544.php
and you might as well read the latest blog entry:
http://www.kung-foo.tv/blog/archives/000491.php
and this bit about Kung-Tunes and iTunes 4:
http://www.kung-foo.tv/blog/archives/000485.php#000485
(I can't ever remember if you auto-parse HTML in your comments)
Posted by: mike on May 9, 2003 01:33 PMActually, I already use Kung-Log (though my recollection is that it uses the Meta-Weblog API, not the blogger API). I had forgotten about Kung-Tunes, which I had thought to check out a few weeks ago.
Thanks for the reminder!
And I should probably update my comments template to clarify that for you, shouldn't I....
Heh.
I shoulda factchecked. From the MT site:
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Movable Type features a full implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API (where applicable). The only two methods that are not supported by Movable Type are getTemplate and setTemplate, due to the differences between Blogger's template system and Movable Type's template system.
Movable Type also supports the metaWeblog XML-RPC API (also where applicable).
Finally, Movable Type also adds a couple of other methods of its own for manipulating the categories assigned to your entries.
--snip!--