Archive for February 28th, 2005
Blog Playlist Plugin?
Monday, February 28th, 2005
I’ve been working on a playlist database app in PHP for the last couple days to replace the antiquated BlogAmp. It’s turning out quite nicely, so I thought I’d share. The basic premise is that the Now Playing Plugin for Winamp sends song information to the PHP script in the form of a POST request. The PHP playlist program takes that and puts it in a database, and the display functions allow you to print views for most recently listened-to songs, most listened-to songs, top artists, top albums, song details, and more.
Take a look at the app so far and tell me what you think. I know there are a few things wrong with it: it needs better navigation for one, and there are some bugs with the paging functions I need to fix, but other than that, it serves its purpose well. I’m also planning on adding all of the features I bragged about above (top albums/artists are not yet implemented) as well as album art from google images, so it will look all nice in your sidebar and in the album/song/artist detail screens.
My question is this: would there be any interest if I released this as a WordPress plugin? Or even if I released it standalone (with the ability to integrate it as a WP page)? I imagine current BlogAmp users should be quite interested. Let me know and I might work faster. But don’t expect anything before midterms. Those always come first, of course… usually.