Perceptions

I find it really interesting hearing people’s thoughts on copyright, legality and entitlement. The red is me.
[03/01 00:56:51] limewire has free music
[03/01 00:57:05] limewire’s illegal
[03/01 00:57:37] last fm is doing exactly the same as limewire so technically it should b too
[03/01 00:57:54] except that they pay the artists… :)
[03/01 00:58:32] theres 1 positve
To summarise the [...]

Posted at 2:38 on January 3rd 2009, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet

Update to My Last.fm Scrobbling Test

I spent a bit of time this evening updating my Last.fm scrobbler (if you can call it that), which I have written about before.
It simply makes it a lot easier to use: enter your username and password, click the button (I know the enter key doesn’t work, and I hate myself for not being able [...]

Posted at 2:21 on November 16th 2008, tagged as , , , , with 2 comments

Here’s One I Made Earlier

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This is hardly complicated, but it’s something that’s been bugging me. A few minutes later, tada: a script that will open the Last.fm page of the currently playing iTunes track.

tell application "iTunes"
  try
    set theArtist to artist of current track
    set theSong to name of current track
  end try
end tell
tell application "System [...]

Posted at 16:05 on November 9th 2008, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet

How Genius is Genius?

Spent half an hour this evening trying to think on what the deal with iTunes’ new Genius feature is… nobody’s totally clear on how it works, so I thought I’d half-heartedly check into whether it works better for people with a more mainstream music taste or not. Here’s the results from me pulling a few [...]

Posted at 0:11 on September 23rd 2008, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet

Learning: XMLHttpRequest

Since I first started teaching myself PHP as well as GET and POST methods back in May to throw together a scrobbler for Last.fm, I’ve wanted to update it to make it a little more… AJAX-y (as the kids are saying today).
Yesterday, I started looking into the best way to go about doing this and [...]

Posted at 13:10 on September 11th 2008, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet