Spencer: February 2010 Archives
For some reason I'm drawn to music covers. I like to hear new versions of the same song be different artists and compare styles and interpretations. I have another blog post from a long time ago that mentions an idea for a mp3 player plugin that would connect to SecondHandSongs to query their database of song covers and provide information on the current song and related covers if any.
Well, I actually have renewed the desire for such a plugin and have a few links of resources to help be get started on this:
My current idea is to ping SecondHandSongs with the song info and retrieve:
1. if this is a cover
2. if this is an original, with other artists covering it
3. if this is not found at all in their database
for 1 and 2, I'll get the list of all covers and artists, and then query TinySong.com to see if they have that song in their database. If so, they will provide a URL to listen to that song in a browser.
So you can listen to a song and say, "Hmm, I wonder if anyone has redone this song...", then right click on it, or something, and choose "Find Song Cover Info...", and then a list of songs and artists get displayed, and when you click on any one of them, it pauses your current music player, launches a web browser with the URL for that song cover and you get to listen to it right there.
Coolness.
Well, I actually have renewed the desire for such a plugin and have a few links of resources to help be get started on this:
- http://www.secondhandcongs.com (of course)
- http://code.google.com/p/rhythmtoweb/
- http://live.gnome.org/RhythmboxPlugins/ThirdParty
- http://live.gnome.org/RhythmboxPlugins/WritingGuide
- http://www.grooveshark.com
- http://apidocs.tinysong.com/
My current idea is to ping SecondHandSongs with the song info and retrieve:
1. if this is a cover
2. if this is an original, with other artists covering it
3. if this is not found at all in their database
for 1 and 2, I'll get the list of all covers and artists, and then query TinySong.com to see if they have that song in their database. If so, they will provide a URL to listen to that song in a browser.
So you can listen to a song and say, "Hmm, I wonder if anyone has redone this song...", then right click on it, or something, and choose "Find Song Cover Info...", and then a list of songs and artists get displayed, and when you click on any one of them, it pauses your current music player, launches a web browser with the URL for that song cover and you get to listen to it right there.
Coolness.
I've found that is it hard to keep up your blog if you don't keep up your blog. Sounds silly when I write it out like that, but it's true. If you don't make time for something, then it probably won't happen on its own. Enough said.
