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Now Playing plugin for iTunes

by Scott McNulty Jan 29th 2006 at 3:00PM

This Now Playing plugin for iTunes looks like it has great potential. It does a couple of things, and promises to do more once it is no longer in beta.

What does it do, you ask? It creates an XML file of the song you are currently listening to in iTunes and stores it on your hard drive or you can set it to ftp it to a remote server. This allows you to set up on of those 'currently listening' things on your blog (using some programming kungfu to make the XML into some more presentable).

At the moment that is all it does, but this is a very early beta release. Looking for Amazon and iTunes Music Store ties in to come soon.

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Oliver Otway

All very nice and all, but when are they going to have an option to display current playings songs lyrics in iTunes/ Front Row

It's all i ask for, not much is it?

(PS if this already exist please i beg you hit me up with a link, i got the karaoke fever

January 29 2006 at 11:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
peeweejd

i'm hoping that someday apple wll roll this functionality into itunes, or at least give us the ability to run a quick applescript based upon a itunes event (such as a song ending or somethign).

but yeah, last.fm is pretty cool.
http://www.last.fm/user/peeweejd

January 29 2006 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BJ Gilbert

http://www.last.fm

Audioscrobble does that and SO much more. I love it. It integrates very well with iTunes and OS X too. It is a plugin for iTunes that records everything you listen to. Your site then reveals top artists, songs, and now playing. All of the data is yours in whatever form you want as well. It also has premade constantly updating images with your information that you can put on blogs or whaever.

Heres a link to mine: http://www.last.fm/user/treblig

have fun.

January 29 2006 at 3:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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