mortenjust posted to #spotify:

mortenjust

Spotify could have a DJ mode in which my friends hear whatever I hear, realtime

1 day, 1 hour ago.

30 comments so far

  • Wendelboe

    That would so rock!

    1 day ago by Wendelboe.

  • neeke

    I'd love that

    1 day ago by neeke.

  • Wendelboe

    Combined with this and Jaiku, all we'd need to party without leaving the comfort of our homes, would be a cheap stripper each..

    1 day ago by Wendelboe.

  • clausd

    +1

    Very much in favour of this - could be a simple extension of the playlist concept - builds the playlist based on nowplaying for current user. If you want to do this, the you might consider simply being able to play RSS feeds of songs - (in which case Last.fm does the job)

    1 day ago by clausd.

  • kribba

    OMG that would so cool. Great idea!

    1 day ago by kribba.

  • clausd

    Wendelboe, you have created a confusion about all later answers - are people approving of "personal stripper" og "DJ mode" ?

    1 day ago by clausd.

  • kribba

    DJ Mode +1

    1 day ago by kribba.

  • Wendelboe

    I'm sure everyone but @kribba want's strippers..

    23 hours, 45 minutes ago by Wendelboe.

  • dmos

    count me in

    23 hours, 22 minutes ago by dmos.

  • clausd

    OK, here's a very early version of a DJ mode hack for Spotify http://www.classy.dk/hacks/archives/0039... From now on you can hear what I'm hearing at http://www.classy.dk/cgi-bin/djspotify.p... - Windows only for now - sorry Wendelboe, I need to get a Mac before I can make a hack for you as well...

    18 hours, 7 minutes ago by clausd.

  • neeke

    @clausd wow, fast action =)

    17 hours, 54 minutes ago by neeke.

  • clausd

    Anyone want to contribute a " DJ client" - i.e. a minimal webpage that polls http://www.classy.dk/download/nowplaying... for changes and loads the next track when it does ?

    17 hours, 47 minutes ago by clausd.

  • Wendelboe

    If you're listening to Slagsmålsklubben right now, it works on Mac too..

    17 hours, 33 minutes ago by Wendelboe.

  • clausd
    • Yeah but you can't DJ from a Mac yet

    17 hours, 32 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    Contribute? In what way?

    17 hours, 31 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    Make one and put it on the internet.

    17 hours, 31 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    Can you provide me with a short description of the "architecture"?

    17 hours, 29 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    Wrt DJ-ing from a mac - I think one could probably hack it with either smart folders or just by polling the guistate file instead of the smart resource friendly file listener I'm using now - if the Mac version of Spotify has the same config files of course

    17 hours, 29 minutes ago by clausd.

  • clausd

    read blog post linked above. There's a fixed text file on my web server with a url, when the url changes (or on first load) it should be loaded by browser in separate window or something like that.

    17 hours, 27 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    (ah I recon this much: Spotify uses a fat client...)

    17 hours, 27 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    Yes this is a light weight helpers for Spotify users to share music - not some kind of file sharing/piracy/information wants to be free type thing

    17 hours, 25 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    And this will open the track in Spotity http://open.spotify.com/track/ + your encoded track information?

    17 hours, 24 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    yep

    17 hours, 23 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    Do you have an example of a working URL that will play a track, and I guess I need a Spotify account ;-)

    17 hours, 20 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    No Spotify accounts in Denmark at the moment sadly :( - the urls I'm djing now work fine if one has Spotify

    17 hours, 19 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    OK, guess I'll focus my hack on Last.fm then ;-)

    17 hours, 16 minutes ago by kimbach.

  • clausd

    Morten tells me the guistate file also lives on a mac. I rewrote the script so it now also works on a Mac. v. 0.0.2 is here!

    17 hours, 9 minutes ago by clausd.

  • Funza

    eh - and how do I make it work, if I want to dj?

    16 hours, 27 minutes ago by Funza.

  • clausd

    @Funza - its a proof of concept. For geeks. You need to download a perl script, adapt it for your own needs, hook it up to a webserver, and so on. In short, this thing needs packaging.

    LATEST: The player now works at http://www.classy.dk/cgi-bin/djspotify.p... - this changes tracks when I change tracks. The proof of concept is now complete. Next up: Hosting players for all the rest of you. Stay tuned, you will all be DJing shortly.

    Any spotify-staff here? Would really like to be able to load spotify urls without the app grabbing focus. Is there a way. Could you make a way?

    15 hours, 5 minutes ago by clausd.

  • kimbach

    BTW. It's so much simpler to use Last.fm for building something like this (URL based and with a real API. Sample URL), unfortunately it will only give you 30 sec previews for the majority of tracks :-( - or will it give you full tracks if you're a subscriber?

    10 hours, 28 minutes ago by kimbach.

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