jeffpipas.com — Here's a sample tutorial on using AJAX and PHP to automatically refresh your NowPlaying iTunes Plugin. NowPlaying is a plugin for iTunes that creates an XML file based on what you listen to in iTunes. This tutorial walks you through setting up your blog or website to automatically refresh this playlist based on a timer, using AJAX. Check it out!
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Closed AccountOct 28, 2005
too bad the demo page is down.
yakk0dotorgOct 28, 2005
the demo page is at <a class="user" href="http://www.jeffpipas.com/blog/nowplaying.html">http://www.jeffpipas.com/blog/nowplaying.html</a>
xenlabOct 28, 2005
sweet, now i have a reason to pull this plugin back out and re-integrate it into my site. too bad it's windows only.... but that's where i mostly play my itunes from anyway.
clinkoOct 28, 2005
You could use the program I wrote called clinko to do the same: <a class="user" href="http://www.clinko.com">http://www.clinko.com</a>It does the same, but does a comparative filter (like amazon) to find similar artist...I know i'm sorta spamming, but this is very similar product to what I wrote...plus, mine works in winamp :)
clinkoOct 28, 2005
Oh yeah, here's the link to mine over the last few months...<a class="user" href="http://www.clinko.com/music/?usr=Bang">http://www.clinko.com/music/?usr=Bang</a>
aseidlOct 29, 2005
On my Mac, I use Freshly Squeezed Software's Recent Tunes to upload the playlist as an XML file to my web server. Then I have some PHP show the current song lyrics and use AJAX to refresh the page whenever the song changes. And if I don't already have the lyrics, the PHP tries to grab them from a couple major sites.<a class="user" href="http://freshsqueeze.com/products/freeware/">http://freshsqueeze.com/products/freeware/</a>