Music section
February 25th 2005
With WordPress 1.5’s new Pages feature, I’ve finally been able to start updating the main pages (aka, the cool looking links on the right).
The first one is the Music page — I’ve begun to add some of my compositions and recordings, just random stuff. I’ll soon add more about my digital music collection, including a thourough analysis of music formats, and a list of my record collection (yes, those big black frisbees).
Along with the music page comes a neat little applet called “BlogAmp”, which shows the songs I’m playing in WinAmp in real-time. I don’t like the interface very much though — it’s in JavaScript and doesn’t have any hope of database integration. Fortunately there’s a plugin that seems to be better than BlogAmp. BlogAmp users take note — you may want to switch. It’s called the Now Playing Plug-In, simply enough, and it can send current song info in POST format to a web script so the page can do anything it wants with it. This is a much better solution than the upload-a-javascript-file-over-FTP that BlogAmp does. I’ll be trying this out sometime soon, hopefully integrating it into a complex database that will track all the songs I play over a very long time. It should be cool, and I’ll make it available for those who want to use it once I’m done.
Very nice.
My powebook isn’t liking the ogg vorbis format, but I’ll try to migrate over to my pc somtime this evening to have a listen. You might try offering your recordings in mp3 as well, since the audio quality of mp3 would certainly suffice for the web.
I am actually planning that, i just haven’t got around to encoding them yet.
And for the Mac, you can definately play Ogg — try this Quicktime plugin.